Phoenix AZ

PHOENIX — The Department of Veterans Affairs quietly tried to change how it rates disabled veterans, basing benefits on how well their medications work instead of how bad their conditions really are. Public outrage forced the agency to rescind that rule, and many vets think the danger is over,...

SEATTLE - Home values increased for the first time in seven months, and existing home sales were higher than a year earlier, according to the Zillow February Market Report. According to Zillow, the rebound in existing home sales in February indicates that January’s softer numbers were likely affected by severe winter...

Arizona is hiding sandwich greatness in plain sight — and it’s about time you tasted it. Forget sad desk lunches and soggy bread. Across the state, from sunbaked desert cities to cool mountain towns, delis are stacking meats high, slathering on house-made spreads, and pressing perfection between slices of crusty bread.

A newly deployed speed monitoring camera was battered and pushed over Tuesday, less than two weeks after it was installed. The vandalized camera was one of 17 placed throughout Phoenix in late February, as part of a city safety campaign that aims to alter driver behavior and supplement police traffic enforcement.

PHOENIX (CN) — Former Grand Canyon University students who claim they were deceived into completing “useless” degree programs lack standing to request compensation for already-forgiven federal student loans, but may be entitled to other forms of relief, a federal judge ruled. Representing an undefined number of...

PHOENIX, Arizona — Sunland STEAM Academy, an elementary school in south Phoenix, was on lockdown on Wednesday after a student reported a weapon on campus, according to a representative from the Roosevelt School District. Wednesday morning, staff contacted Phoenix police after a student reported that another student...

A Haitian man in ICE custody at the Florence Correctional Complex died in a hospital in Scottsdale on Monday. The family of 56-year-old Emmanuel Damas said federal agents neglected his care. Damas’ younger brother, Presly Nelson, says he was picked up by ICE after Boston police arrested him on domestic...

It wasn't so long ago that a driver on Loop 303 would see only desert as far as the eye could see and only occasionally pass another car. Just 10 years after the freeway opened in north Phoenix and Peoria, traffic engineers are predicting the road could be impassable by 2040 ― if not sooner ― thanks to an explosion...

When Gregory Cohen made a lunch date with his longtime friend, Eric Hassler, he expected to catch up and lend an ear to someone who had just been through a lot. Hassler’s wife of 25 years, Lori, died in July. Roughly a month later, he dropped off their daughter at college on the East Coast.

A medical examiner has released reports showing that two teenagers who were killed on Mt. Ord last year suffered multiple gunshot wounds.