Health Aug 22 Fake Arizona rehab centers scam Native Americans from across the country, officials warn during investigations Arizona's Medicaid program has now suspended payment to more than 300 providers pending investigations. Government and tribal officials in other states are warning people in their areas as the fraud's reach becomes better known.
Health Aug 13 Inconsistent methods for counting U.S. heat deaths stymie public health efforts Experts say a mishmash of ways more than 3,000 counties calculate heat deaths means we don't really know how many people die in the U.S. each year because of high temperatures in an ever warming world.
Nation Jul 29 Late arriving monsoon rains expected to bring relief to heat-blasted Southwest A historic heat wave that turned the U.S. Southwest into a blast furnace throughout July is beginning to abate with the late arrival of monsoon rains.
Nation Jul 28 Unhoused people in Phoenix struggle to stay safe from record high temperatures Homeless in America’s hottest big metro, Stefon James Dewitt Livengood counts on his neighbors in a sprawling downtown tent city to stay safe as temperatures soared over 110 degrees Fahrenheit every day this month.
Nation Jul 24 Why advocates say more can be done to prevent heat-related deaths Gov. Katie Hobbs has demanded that Arizona’s power companies spell out in writing their plans during the current hot spell for disconnections of service, how they will handle possible grid outages and how they will react in the event of…
Nation Jul 18 Phoenix on track to break record for weeks of extreme heat The length of Phoenix's heat wave is notable even during a summer in which much of the southern United States and the world as a whole has been cooking in record temperatures, something scientists say is stoked by climate change.
Nation Jun 30 Heat waves, extreme weather events becoming more common and likely to increase, experts say Heat waves like the one that engulfed parts of parts of the South and Midwest and killed more than a dozen people are becoming more common.
Nation Jun 23 Border Patrol body camera footage released after shooting of tribal member in Arizona U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released body camera footage that shows Border Patrol agents were concerned that a tribal member they fatally shot last month may have been carrying a handgun during an encounter on a remote corner of…
Nation May 05 Cinco de Mayo celebrates Mexican American culture, not independence In the United States, the date is largely seen as a celebration of Mexican American culture stretching back to the 1800s in California.
Health Apr 28 ‘I’m trying not to go into panic.’ Review of millions of Medicaid enrollees plagued by error and confusion Advocacy groups have warned for months that confusion and errors will abound throughout the undertaking, wrongly leaving some of the country’s poorest people suddenly without health insurance and unable to pay for necessary medical care.