The Glendale facility of technology and manufacturing company, Honeywell will help produce parts for a NASA spacecraft that will send humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Honeywell was awarded a contract by Lockheed Martin for production of NASA’s Orion spacecraft fleet for the upcoming Artemis missions, the...
Read MoreThe Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is working to fill its assessor vacancy in the wake of Paul Petersen’s resignation earlier this month. On Jan. 7, three months after his arrest on human trafficking charges related to an alleged multistate adoption scheme, Petersen announced that he was stepping down. State law says the board...
Read MoreThe maker of Excedrin is temporarily halting production on two of the brand’s most popular headache-relief medicines, potentially affecting millions of Americans who suffer from migraines. GlaxoSmithKline is discontinuing Excedrin Extra Strength and Excedrin Migraine because of what the company called an inconsistency in the ingredients in the medicines, specifically acetaminophen, aspirin and caffeine....
Read MoreBeware, commuters Phoenix highways will be undergoing major reconstruction. Physical work on the Interstate 10-Broadway Curve project is still over a year away, but planners want to alert travelers early. It’s the Valley’s first freeway reconstruction within the urban core. From where the I-10 and I-17 meet (commonly called “the split”), extending south to...
Read MoreLast week, Governor Doug Ducey released his fiscally responsible, balanced budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021. The budget continues to make targeted, sustainable investments in the things that matter such as teacher pay raises, school safety, roads and bridges, rural jobs and technology and public safety, while returning dollars to taxpayers and saving more...
Read MoreThe new chief executive of Arizona Public Service said Tuesday the state’s largest electric company will not spend money to influence elections for the company’s regulators on the Corporation Commission. Jeff Guldner, CEO of APS and its parent company Pinnacle West Capital Corp., made the commitment following growing scrutiny of the company’s millions in...
Read MoreThe Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recovered more guns at airports across the country in 2019 than ever before in the agency’s history. According to the TSA, 4,432 firearms were discovered in carry-on bags or on passengers at checkpoints across the U.S. Of those, TSA says 87% were loaded. “The continued increase in the number...
Read MoreAPS says refund checks are in the mail for about 7,000 of the 10,000 customers who switched to more expensive plans on the recommendation of its faulty rate comparison tool. The remainder will be mailed out by next week. Consumer advocates alerted the company to the problem in Fall 2019. APS pulled the online...
Read MoreInfluenza B is causing a high number of pediatric flu deaths this season. “Nationwide it’s been hitting pretty hard,” Dr. Suchitra Rao, a Pediatric Infectious Disease Doctor at Children’s Hospital Colorado, said. This flu season, however, doctors are seeing something unusual. “It’s a very unusual type of year in terms of the virus we’re...
Read MorePhoenix has a hot housing market, but it’s lagging among one of the largest potential demographics. Millennials, people born between roughly 1981 and 1997, made up less of the home buying market in Phoenix than nearly all of the 50 largest U.S. metro areas, according to a report by Lendingtree. The report looked at...
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