As many of us did not have any houseguests this holiday season due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, some Valley residents did. Those houseguests weren’t human though – but rather rats. With the temperatures dropping, rodents are looking for food and warmer shelter. Most Arizonans are familiar with black “roof rats,” which love citrus....
Read MoreThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was hit with several lawsuits Monday for allegedly covering up decades of sexual abuse among Boy Scout troops in Arizona, marking the latest litigation before the state’s end-of-year deadline for adult victims to sue. The church “must be held accountable in order to bring healing and...
Read MoreAPS has announced they will offer more to aid for customers struggling during the pandemic. The energy company says they will offer more time to pay bills, waive late fees, additional bill credit and more in 2021. “Our pandemic bill relief programs have assisted more than 65,000 customers in 2020 to help those impacted...
Read MoreChristmas 2020 is over and that means many Arizona residents will be looking for a way to dispose of their Christmas tree. Most of the state’s recycle locations say they will only accept live trees and wreaths, no plastic trees or wreaths. All About Arizona News has compiled a list of details below that...
Read MoreA student team from Arizona State University beat out innovators from more than 70 countries to win a portion of a million-dollar prize for designing an anti-fog face mask. The XPRIZE Next-Gen Mask Challenge gathered nearly 1,000 entries from young people working to create “more comfortable, functional and affordable” masks during the coronavirus pandemic....
Read MoreThe United States’ top infectious diseases expert says a new, potentially more infectious coronavirus variant spreading in the United Kingdom may already be in the United States. “When you have this amount of spread within a place like the U.K., you really need to assume that it’s here already. It certainly is not the...
Read MoreA Scottsdale man was charged with wire fraud and money laundering in connection to an alleged scheme to defraud others by falsely claiming to be a distributor of respirator face masks, according to the United States Attorney’s Office. Dale Hipes, 39, allegedly said he could procure 3M masks for the state of Texas during...
Read More‘Tis the season for gift giving. And waste! But what holiday packaging can go in the blue recycle bins? Christmas morning your family may be surrounded by endless wrapping paper, bows and holiday cards and instinct may be to dump it all in the recycling bin. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, it’s important...
Read MoreIowa State lost the Big 12 football championship game to Oklahoma on Saturday, but the Cyclones on Sunday received something of a reward for their first regular season conference title with a spot in the 50th PlayStation Fiesta Bowl. It’s No. 10 Iowa State’s first January bowl game in program history. The Cyclones (8-3)...
Read MoreNo full closures are scheduled along Phoenix-area freeways between Friday night, Dec. 18, and Monday morning, Jan. 4, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation. While highway construction and maintenance work will take place at times over the last two weeks of the year, ADOT and its contractors will continue the long standing tradition...
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