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The Arizona Senate passed a bill that would change initiative and referendum voter requirements. If the measure is approved by citizens, it would require the signatures of 10% of voters in each of the 30 legislative districts to land on the ballot. The proposal from Chandler Republican Sen. J.D. Mesnard comes after years of efforts by Republicans to make it harder to get voter

On this episode of Word, a Valley resident turns experience as a former prison inmate into a graphic novel.Plus, addiction to an anti-anxiety drug leads to a debut mystery.And, the haiku train is still running down the tracks as the KJZZ Annual Haiku Writing Contest keeps on chugging and the beloved Festival of Japan, better known as Arizona Matsuri returns to Phoenix, in

Sen. Steve Kaiser has introduced legislation that could make him a hero of Arizona motorists — assuming it gets approved and survives a likely court challenge.The Phoenix Republican wants to ban political signs from street corners, medians and other public rights of way. Kaiser said SB 1116 simply does what his constituents want.

Q&AZ is supported in part by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company A KJZZ listener said she saw large Trump campaign signs mounted on poles above other campaign signs at four intersections along Cactus and Bell Roads in west Phoenix and Glendale.

More people are living on the streets of our cities now than they have in nearly a decade.At the last Point in Time Homeless Count, that added up to more than 5,000 people — nearly 10,000 if you count those living in shelters. That’s nearly twice as many as the first time the count was conducted in 2016.

It’s a hot August morning and the nonprofit Circle the City has parked one of its mobile clinics in front of a north Phoenix soup kitchen. The group provides medical care to homeless patients. Inside the trailer, 64-year-old Paul Yager is getting his vitals checked. He’s HIV-positive and on most nights he sleeps in a park nearby. He credits this medical team with keeping him

Responding to a home emergency, three Ogunquit first-responders helped a local a local mother as she gave birth to her newborn son on July 10, 2022.

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There had been a “flight line mishap” involving a junior sailor and a helicopter at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, and two U.S. Navy chief petty officers had the unenviable task of informing that sailor’s parents about the accident.

Q&AZ is supported in part by Abrazo HealthThrough KJZZ's Q&AZ reporting project, a listener asked: Whatever happened with the empty space in the middle of Interstate 10's Deck Park Tunnel?