Arizona

The Bureau of Land Management projects a 34% chance that Lake Powell’s water levels will fall below the minimum level necessary to generate power in 2023.

How many degrees of separation are there between all of us? In NBCLX’s new series, “Connect the Dots,” we try to answer that question. Four reporters each draw the names of three random items and must then go on a journalistic scavenger hunt of sorts to find out how they are related.  The result? A behind-the-scenes look at how...

What do the Arizona State Fair, infertility and cacti have in common? That’s what Telemundo Arizona’s Gabriela Martinez set out to discover in this episode of “Connect the Dots.” Her reporting led her to meet a self-proclaimed cactus guru, an indigenous foods activist and a woman who has raised more than 125 children through foster care and adoption. And what...

A former Arizona nurse has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman about three years ago at a long-term care facility where she later gave birth

The results of the 2020 headcount have many Latino and Black communities concerned about whether the latest numbers are accurate

Elsewhere, House Democrats said they “will be forced to consider other steps to obtain compliance” if Cyber Ninjas “continues to obstruct” their investigation.

The three states are all hot spots in the nation’s recent COVID-19 surge, and defiant boards in Miami, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and other urban areas argue that requiring masks protects students, teachers and staff from contracting and spreading the virus as many pediatric hospitals fill.

During a summer when it was hoped travel would start to normalize, medical evacuation companies are setting records for both memberships and rescues.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is upping the pressure on the growing number of public school districts defying a state ban on mask mandates as they try to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

U.S. officials have declared the first-ever water shortage from a river that serves 40 million people in the West.

The Colorado River supplies water and power for more than 40 million people across the West, while also fueling some 2.5 million acres of croplands.

President Joe Biden has called school district superintendents in Florida and Arizona, praising them for doing what he called “the right thing” after their respective boards implemented mask requirements in defiance of their Republican governors amid growing COVID-19 infections.

Climate change, drought and high demand are expected to force the first-ever mandatory cuts to a water supply that 40 million people depend on: the Colorado River.

Unvaccinated people are eager to travel again. But increasingly, the rules make that harder.

Phoenix police say an Arizona state senator has been arrested on suspicion of charges of sexual conduct with a minor.

The Arizona governor and Democratic lawmakers are calling for state Sen. Tony Navarrete to resign after he was charged with sexually abusing a boy and attempting to abuse another

The water level at Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border has hit a historic low amid a climate change-fueled megadrought engulfing the U.S. West

Friends of a Massachusetts woman was found dead on a mountain in Arizona are looking for answers. The body of 31-year-old Angela Tramonte of Saugus was found Friday on Camelback Mountain in Phoenix. Friends say Tramonte went to Arizona to spend time with someone she’d met on Instagram. Authorities in that state confirm the man she was with is...

Crews say the woman likely died from heat exhaustion.

A woman from the Boston area died while hiking in Arizona Friday afternoon.