It took a long and contentious fight to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday in Arizona. The big picture: The ...

Arizona was one of the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a ...

The new year is opening to an uncertain and contentious future along the Colorado River. Faced with the onset of climate change, decreasing river flow and half-empty reservoirs, the seven river basin ...

Arizona didn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day until 1993, a decade after it became a federal holiday. Here's how the Super ...

I'd never had a white person talk to me like that,' Warren Stewart Sr. says, recalling the late Gov. Evan Mecham and the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is recognized across the nation, both as a state and national holiday, on the civil rights ...

Jimmy Carter defeated a popular Arizona congressman to win the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and tried to defund ...

William Schafer III, who served as lead prosecutor in the car-bombing murder of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles in the ...

Senator from Arizona helped shape Panama Canal Treaty ... the state’s attorney general, Bruce Babbitt, became the governor. Babbitt held office until 1986, when he left to pursue his own ...