Arizona

Arizona Democrats are vowing to fight for women’s rights after a court reinstated a law first enacted during the Civil War that bans abortion in nearly all circumstances. Democrats on Saturday looked to capitalize on an issue they hope will have a major impact on the midterm elections. Top Democrats implored women not to sit on the sidelines this year,...

An Arizona judge says the state can enforce a near-total ban on abortions that has been blocked for nearly 50 years.

Authorities are trying to identify a mummified body found by police in the bathtub of a northwestern Arizona home as they investigated a burglary.

A hiker died Monday and five others were rescued after the group ran out of water and got lost on trails amid triple-digit temperatures in Arizona. Deputies with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office received a call on Monday at 1:25 p.m. for possible heat exhaustion at the Spur Cross Trailhead Mountain, about 40 miles north of Phoenix. Five people were…

Luke Bell, a rising country music star, has died at the age of 32. Before his death, the “Where Ya Been?” singer was reported missing during a trip to Arizona.

The young children were left in the desert, which is located in the south of Arizona and borders Mexico, by smugglers “to die,” according to a tweet from John R. Modlin, chief patrol agent of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector.

Four people have been killed, including a local law enforcement official, in a shooting at an apartment complex in southern Arizona.

A levee was breached Monday in a small town near the Arizona-New Mexico state line, forcing the evacuations of 60 people after a weekend of flash floods across the American Southwest that also swept away one woman who is still missing in Utah’s Zion National Park.

Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona has received nearly $1 million in campaign contributions over the past year from private equity professionals, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists whose interests she has staunchly defended in Congress.

Thompson Ranch Elementary School was locked down after a report around 10:30 a.m. that someone who appeared to have a handgun had tried to open a locked door and ran off, El Mirage police Lt. Jimmy Chavez said.

At least four other states have similar “personhood” laws in effect, including Missouri, Kansas, Georgia and Alabama.

Arizona’s governor has signed a law that restricts how the public can video police at a time when there’s growing pressure around the country for greater law enforcement transparency.

Habitat for Humanity recently completed its first 3D-printed home in Tempe, Arizona. It’s a single-family dwelling with 1,738 square feet of livable space – and will be energy efficient in the desert heat. Dusty Parsons, chief marketing officer for Habitat for Humanity of Central Arizona, joins LX News to talk about the home and how 3D-printed homes could alleviate the...

For the second year in a row, the United States is selling water to Nogales, Sonora, as the region grapples with a severe drought.

“If you have something, you have to share it with other people,” said Jaswiendre Singh of Phoenix, whose Sikh religious values factored into his decision.

The 74-year-old man had been lost on Mingus Mountain in Prescott National Forest since Friday.

From Florida to Colorado, major fires are burning in at least 13 states.

A pair of pilots attempted to skydive into each other’s planes mid-flight in a stunt that went awry over the Arizona desert on Sunday.

The Red Bull-hosted event in Arizona ended with one of the planes crashing, though both pilots reached the ground safely.

Destructive U.S. Southwest fires have burned dozens of homes in northern Arizona and put numerous small villages in New Mexico in the path of danger, as wind-fueled flames chewed up wide swaths of tinder dry forest and grassland and plumes of smoke filled the sky