Arizona was one of the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a public vote to do so.

It took a long and contentious fight to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday in Arizona. The big picture: The movement to carve out a day to honor King began shortly after his 1968 assassination.

The new year is opening to an uncertain and contentious future along the Colorado River. Faced with the onset of climate change, decreasing river flow and half-empty reservoirs, the seven river basin states,

I'd never had a white person talk to me like that,' Warren Stewart Sr. says, recalling the late Gov. Evan Mecham and the Arizona battle over MLK Day.

Arizona didn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day until 1993, a decade after it became a federal holiday. Here's how the Super Bowl played a role.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is recognized across the nation, both as a state and national holiday, on the civil rights activist’s birthday, Jan. 20. The day serves as an

William Schafer III, who served as lead prosecutor in the car-bombing murder of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles in the 1970s, died last month. The big picture: Schafer was remembered at a memorial service on Friday at the Beatitudes Campus in Phoenix.

So even though Awaka had 14 rebounds and eight points against Texas Tech on Saturday, the Wildcats had their seven-game winning streak snapped with a 70-54 loss to the Red Raiders at United Supermarkets Arena that was built largely on UA's season-low rebounding deficit of 16.

For some Arizona men's basketball players, the conference realignment is making it easier for family members to see the team play.

The Arizona House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the Arizona State Legislature. Alongside the Arizona State Senate, it forms the legislative branch of the Arizona state government and works alongside the governor of Arizona to create laws and ...

The Carter Administration laid the groundwork that shifted the debate on water in the nation and in the west. Leadership on water requires willingness to show up, be responsible to

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