With 30 years of maintenance part of the public-private partnership behind the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway, taxpayers will face no additional cost to address spots next to some West Valley interchanges where the surface asphalt has deteriorated. The Arizona Department of Transportation will hold freeway developer Connect 202 Partners accountable for repairing the problem […]
Read MoreInside a lab at Seattle Children’s Research Institute, 22-month-old Maggie Harbison played with a brightly colored puzzle, as her mother and a researcher looked on. Suddenly, the researcher, Sarah Corrigan, pointed to the corner of the room and said, “Look!” Instinctively, Maggie gazed in the direction in which Corrigan was pointing. Corrigan asked Maggie, who […]
Read MoreLast year, former Phoenix Mountains Preservation Council President Libby Goff was fighting to save the North Mountain Preserve from a 66-inch wide water pipeline. “When we first started, I wasn’t sure what we would be able to get changed,” says Goff. She described the City of Phoenix’s plan as “disruptive” to the pristine preserve. The […]
Read MoreHiring jumped last month as U.S. employers added 225,000 jobs, bolstering an economy that faces threats from China’s viral outbreak, an ongoing trade war and struggles at Boeing. Half a million people streamed into the job market, though not all of them found work. That influx meant that more people were counted as unemployed, and […]
Read MoreIt is known to many as Arizona’s beach. But over the last few years there have been safety concerns about visiting Rocky Point, known as Puerto Peñasco in Mexico. A new coalition of business leaders and property owners has formed in Rocky Point to try to change that perception. “A lot of people have a […]
Read MoreApple has been fined roughly $27 million for slowing down the performance of older iPhone models on purpose. France’s competition and fraud watchdog (DGCCRF) fined the U.S. tech giant because it said consumers were not warned about this. Apple confirmed back in 2017 that it was intentionally slowing down some iPhones, but the company said […]
Read MoreA study finding evidence of loss of verbal memory recall in high school football players between the beginning and end of the season was presented publicly for the first time during a conference in Phoenix recently. Kyle Walker, an orthopedic surgery resident at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, presented the study at a podium during the […]
Read MoreTwo Arizona men have been charged of running a massive cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, according to documents filed in federal court. Their victims include a number of former Major League Baseball players. From a look at their social media, John Caruso and Zach Salter had it all: traveling to exotic locations, driving luxury cars, and posing […]
Read MoreBy Stacy Simon Senior News Editor, American Cancer Society It’s been reported in the media for years that eating chocolate is heart-healthy, helps prevent cancer, and boosts your mood. But is that really true? We do know that flavanols in cocoa beans, an ingredient in chocolate, are antioxidants, meaning that they may reduce damage to […]
Read MoreUnited Airlines says it has inked a deal to acquire Phoenix-based Westwind School of Aeronautics. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Chicago-based United said it will become the only major U.S.-based airline to operate its own flight academy. Westwind is located in north Phoenix at Deer Valley Airport. Prior to the acquisition, the flight […]
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