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The reductions amount to an estimated 13% of the total water use in the lower Colorado River basin and will likely cause significant water restrictions for residential and agricultural uses.

The Border Patrol has released data showing a slight increase in the number of times border officials apprehended migrants who crossed the U.S-Mexico border in Arizona in April, the month before the end of Title 42.

The $17 billion state budget package includes a $5 million provision for the first controlled clinical trials for whole mushroom psilocybin – also known as “magic mushrooms.”

Flagstaff Justice of the Peace Howard Grodman dismissed the petition against harassment that ordered Arizona Capitol Times reporter Camryn Sanchez not to contact Sen. Wendy Rogers at her residence.

American bars and restaurants gear up every year for Cinco de Mayo, offering special deals on Mexican food and alcoholic drinks for a May 5 commemoration that is barely celebrated south of the border.

Senate officials say the committee will evaluate protocols and overall public health guidance issued in response to the COVID-10 pandemic in addition to injustices committed against families, businesses, workers and industries

Human remains that had been buried for decades in a California gravesite and marked as “Jane Doe" have been identified as a Navajo woman who went missing from northern Arizona.

Attorney generals from 22 states argue that rescinding the FDA’s certification of mifepristone would increase risks for marginalized populations and strain already overburdened medical systems.

Twenty California condors in northern Arizona and southern Utah have died since March, and half of the endangered birds tested positive for a strain of avian flu.

The Tucson City Council unanimously approved a proposal to give more than 10 acres of city land at the base of Sentinel Peak to the tribe. The Hohokam, the ancestors of the Tohono O'odham, grew crops and thrived for more than 4,500 years at the peak.