Phoenix AZ

Labor leader Dolores Huerta has died at the age of 96, according to her family on Wednesday. Huerta coined an iconic phrase near downtown Phoenix. In a 2022 golden anniversary visit to Santa Rita Hall near 10th Street and Buckeye Road, Huerta recounted the history she made there after meeting with prominent Latinos to seek help overturning a law to stop farmworkers from organizing.

What do you get when you combine barbecue with high-quality fish? For chef Christoper Collins the answer is Cowboy Seafood, now open in Phoenix.  Collins, owner and chef of Common Ground Culinary, which runs behind nine local restaurants including The Macintosh and Wally’s American Gastropub, built Cowboy Seafood from the ground up, the first time […] The post Cowboy Seafood Brings a Wild West Twist to Phoenix first appeared on DiningOut .

TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily) — Honeywell Aerospace announced an expansion Wednesday that includes a new $500 million manufacturing facility in Tempe. The 300,000-square-foot facility will support the largest commercial and defense customers in aerospace and aviation. “Demand for technology from Honeywell Aerospace continues to accelerate across both commercial and defense...

Two 21-year-old California men were arrested in Phoenix after allegedly kidnapping a victim near the Arizona-Mexico border and demanding ransom from his family in Mexico. Prosecutors say Akhilleus Eaton acted as the knife-wielding ringleader while Anthony Chavez used a handgun to intimidate the captive inside a Phoenix room. Both suspects...

Maria De Los Angeles Martinez has been missing from Phoenix, Arizona (Maricopa County), since October 13, 1990, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Her photo above is an age-progressed likeness of how she might have looked at 40, though she would now be 50.

The DEA says Arizona remains a key drug trafficking corridor as investigators track fentanyl and meth shipments and target cartel networks.

Arizona’s water challenges are trickling down to the real estate market, as agents increasingly face questions about the issue from potential homebuyers. In a recent presentation to Phoenix Realtors, Warren Tenney, executive director of the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association, called the prospect of a reduced Colorado River water supply a “paradigm shift.”

Sprouts Farmers Market, a grocery store chain headquartered in Phoenix, is opening three new locations throughout Arizona over the next two weeks. Two of the stores open their doors to customers on Friday at 7 a.m. One is located near Houghton and Old Vail roads in Tucson, and the other is in Scottsdale off Scottsdale and McDowell roads.

D.R. Horton partners with Promise Robotics to build AI-powered structural frames for over 1,250 homes near Phoenix, boosting housing production.

As SNAP participation declines across Arizona, the Creighton School District is seeing growing demand for food assistance while facing potential cuts to federal funding for free school meals.