Public Health

The ongoing measles outbreak along the Arizona-Utah border has surpassed 500 cases.

Coconino County health officials are trying to determine who may have been exposed after another resident has tested positive for measles in Page.

The Indian Health Service is moving forward with a lengthy list of construction projects in the Southwest that were first promised to Native American patients more than 30 years ago.

Coconino County health officials have confirmed 2026's first measles case. Members of the public were possibly exposed at three locations in Page.

Arizona’s three public universities have developed a new tool to help environmental officials find and cleanup abandoned mines in the state.

The Arizona House and Senate are poised to pass legislation mandating hospitals that receive public funding ask patients whether they're in the country legally.

International health officials plan to meet in a few months to reevaluate the United States’ measles-free status. Experts fear the vaccine-preventable virus has regained a foothold and that the U.S. may soon follow Canada in losing the achievement of having eliminated it.

Coconino County health officials are warning those who visited the Flagstaff Mall last Thursday that they may have been exposed to measles.

A Coconino County resident died of a rare case of pneumonic plague earlier this month. Dave Wagner, director of Northern Arizona University’s Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, spoke about the life cycle of plague and his research team’s efforts to develop a vaccine.

Mohave County health officials have reported a surge in whooping cough cases with 18 confirmed so far this year.