The article outlines Arizona's contentious history with recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a state holiday and 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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

According to the 1980 Groundwater Law engineered by then Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt, a development must be able to guarantee that the homes will have a 100-year supply of water. Two years ago ...

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

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

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

President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration will coincide with MLK Day, marking only the second such overlap in U.S. history.

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 ...