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The number of food stamp recipients in Arizona has surged over the past year, but advocates worry that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is still only reaching a portion of those eligible for assistance.

As demand surges, advocates worry food stamps miss eligible families By Molly Hudson | February 17, 2021 at 7:48 AM MST - Updated February 17 at 7:51 AM WASHINGTON – The number of food stamp recipients in Arizona has surged over the past year, but advocates worry that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is still only reaching a portion of those eligible for assistance. A recent Census Bureau report found that one in six people who were eligible for SNAP were actually getting the...

Arizona history Feb. 21-27 On this date in 1881, the Flagstaff Post Office was established. On this date in 1908, representatives of the Kickapoo Indian tribe were in Douglas negotiating for the purchase of 200,000 acres (809 square kilometers) of land 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Douglas for a permanent home for the tribe. On this date in 1930, Arizona hanged a woman for the first time for murder when Eva Dugan died on the scaffold at State Prison for killing A.J. Mathis, Tucson ranch...

A storm is expected to drop snow across a wide swath of northern Arizona this weekend while a bitterly cold arctic air mass draped across the country.

It's Tuesday, Feb. 15. Start your morning with some of our top headlines: Winter Weather Advisory Remains In Effect Through Tuesday A Winter Weather

Let the games begin. The politically fraught task of redrawing political district lines based on the just-completed 2020 Census will preoccupy politicians for the next six months. At the state level, the voter-created, Independent Redistricting Commission has already spurred both conflict — and hopeful signs of consensus. As it happens, Apache County business leader and member of the Navajo Nation Derrick Watchman will play a key role as vice-chairman of the state redistricting commission....

Rural America Is More Vulnerable To Covid-19 Than Cities Are, And It's Starting To Show - Des Moines, IA - Rural areas seemed immune as the coronavirus spread through cities earlier this year, however, all that has changed.

A lawsuit working its way through the Arizona court system is challenging Arizona Department of Health Services denial of four dispensary licenses in rural Arizona counties, as a Phoenix-based company attempts to fill empty spaces in the cannabis landscape and increase patient access where there currently is none. The lawsuit pits four LLCs—Joshua Tree, Cactus Wren, Saguaro and Desert Tortoise health centers—against AZDHS, challenging the denial of applications for dispensary licenses in Ap...

Apache County supervisors voted February 9 to appoint a 25-year-old Stanford University graduate to the Legislative District 7 House seat recently vacated by

PHOENIX (AP) — The Apache County Board of Supervisors has appointed a Navajo Nation citizen to fill an Arizona state representative seat left vacant after fellow Navajo Nation member Arlando...