Heat deaths of people without air conditioning, often in mobile homes, underscore energy inequity
Advocates say air conditioning is no longer a luxury but a public health and affordability issue
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Advocates say air conditioning is no longer a luxury but a public health and affordability issue
August 02, 2024Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has eluded the reach of U.S. enforcement for decades as the top leader and co-founder of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel
July 27, 2024Rangers at California's Death Valley National Park say a European visitor got third-degree burns on his feet while briefly walking barefoot on blazing hot sand dunes at the park
July 25, 2024The fight to keep a proposed immigration initiative off Arizona's Nov. 5 ballot is not over yet
July 19, 2024A dangerously hot summer has shaped up in the U.S. West
July 13, 2024Sizzling sidewalks and unshaded playgrounds are a danger for catastrophic burn injuries as air temperatures reach new summer highs in desert cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas
July 03, 2024Three Mexican migrants have died in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border
June 28, 2024At least six people have died from heat-related causes this year so far in sizzling metro Phoenix, where the temperatures this week hit 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius), Arizona’s Maricopa Department of Public Health reported this week
June 21, 2024Extreme heat alerts are in effect for tens of millions of people in the United States as cities including Chicago break heat records
June 18, 2024Over 75 million people in the United States are under extreme heat alerts as a heat wave moves eastward
June 17, 2024Extreme weather that ranged from triple digit temperatures in the Southwest to unseasonable cold in the Pacific Northwest was forecast over the U.S. into the early week
June 16, 2024The season’s first heat wave is already baking the Southwestern U.S. with triple-digit temperatures as Phoenix firefighters employ new tactics in hopes of saving more lives
June 05, 2024Officials in America’s hottest big metro are working to better protect people amid temperatures already hitting the triple digits this spring
May 28, 2024The victims of last summer's staggering 31-day streak of daily temperatures reaching 110 degrees Fahrenheit and over were old and young, male and female, homeless and well-to-do, Black, white, Hispanic, Asian American and Native American
May 28, 2024Best-selling novelist Amy Tan of “The Joy Luck Club” fame combines entries from her nature journal with astonishing illustrations thanks to lessons in bird illustration in “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” to share a birdwatching obsession that dates back to before the COVID-19 pandemic
April 30, 2024Rudy Giuliani has been processed in the criminal case over the effort to overturn Trump’s Arizona election loss to Joe Biden
June 10, 2024The judge overseeing the case of an Arizona rancher who was unsuccessfully tried in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property says he will consider whether to leave open the possibility of a new trial later
June 03, 2024Arizona’s new heat officer said Friday that he is working with local governments and nonprofit groups to open more cooling centers and ensure homes have working air conditioners in a more unified effort to prevent another ghastly toll of heat-related deaths this summer
May 03, 2024Prosecutors say they will not retry an Arizona rancher whose trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury
April 29, 2024An Arizona judge has declared a mistrial in the case of rancher accused of fatally shooting a Mexican man on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border
April 22, 2024Record Store Day celebrates independent retail music sellers who have endured long after megastores like Tower Records closed
April 20, 2024The jury has been ordered to resume deliberations Friday in the trial of a 75-year-old Arizona rancher accused of fatally shooting a migrant on his property
April 19, 2024Nine-year-old Cal Clifford had always wanted a pet octopus
April 15, 2024Jurors in the case of an Arizona rancher charged with fatally shooting a migrant on his property visited the scene of the killing as the third week of the trial wrapped up
April 12, 2024Jurors in the case of an Arizona rancher charged with fatally shooting a migrant on his border property will be allowed to visit the scene of the killing
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