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KTAR News Staff
PHOENIX — A federal investment of $600,000 will help the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office purchase DNA testing technology that will speed up the return of results, officials said Monday.
AZ Business Magazine
Rep. Greg Stanton introduced H.R. 8435, the Colorado River Drought Response Act, this week to provide $500 million for the Department of the Interior to take immediate action to prevent Lake Mead and Lake Powell from declining to critically low levels.
Connor D. Wolf | Transport Topics News
WASHINGTON — Rep. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) joined Phoenix-based truck manufacturer Nikola Corp. to showcase two electric trucks near the U.S. Capitol Building.
Reagan Priest | Cronkite News
WASHINGTON – Two years after the House allowed proxy voting as a pandemic precaution, two Arizona lawmakers remain among the House's most active proxy voters, while two others are among the stubborn minority that has never cast a vote by proxy.
Kevin Stone | KTAR News
PHOENIX – A new CO+HOOTS co-working community for entrepreneurs, startups, small businesses and students opened Thursday in Mesa.
The space is located at Benedictine University on Main Street and Hibbert, in the Downtown Mesa Innovation District.
Fresh Produce Association of the Americas
NOGALES, Az. – On Thursday, July 7, the FPAA hosted a business roundtable meeting with Rep. Greg Stanton.
Adrian Hedden | The Miner
CARLSBAD, New Mexico – When America's first nuclear weapons were tested in south-central New Mexico they set off generations of strife as nearby communities struggled with cancers and other health problems many feared were a direct impact of associated radiation.
Those downwinders living in remote communities like Carrizozo now have two more years to fight for reparations after a federal bill passed the U.S. House this week.
Rafael Carranza | Arizona Republic
The future of Title 42, an emergency public health rule that limits access to asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, has become increasingly uncertain as elected officials in the U.S. seek to delay the repeal of the controversial policy or block it through the courts.
Mitchell Zimmermann | Cronkite News
TEMPE – Bipartisan legislation sponsored by Rep. Greg Stanton would bring more money to Arizona to use drones to inspect roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
Daisy Gonzalez-Perez and Elsa Hortareas | Cronkite News
WASHINGTON – As the child of visa-holding parents, Ayaan Siddiqui does not face deportation to India – yet.
But the BASIS Peoria senior, like an estimated 200,000 other "documented Dreamers" in the U.S., could be deported to a country he barely knows when he turns 21 and ages out of the protection of his parents' visas.