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6:49 pm UTC May. 27, 2021 BOULDER CITY, Nevada — Hoover Dam towers more than 700 feet above Black Canyon on the Arizona-Nevada state line, holding back the waters of the Colorado River. On top of the dam, where visitors peer down the graceful white arc of its face, one of its art deco-style towers is adorned with a work of art that memorializes the purposes of the dam.    In five relief sculptures by Oskar Hansen, muscular men are shown gripping a boat’s wheel, harvesting an armful of wheat, standing beside cascading water and lifting a heavy weight overhead. With the concrete figures ...

Pandemic motivates Arizona engineer to start business that sells UVC lights to kill pathogens Georgann Yara © Mark Henle, Mark Henle/The Republic A portrait of Nicholas Knudsen with his Purification UV Sterlization unit, April 29, 2021, at Purification LLC, 1007 E. Warner Road, Tempe, Arizona. He saw the restaurants and bars he built and owned slowly shutter in the wake of COVID-19. But when structural engineer Nick Knudsen set out to find a solution to keep his establishments open, he ended up creating an answer for many more battling to stay afloat. Along with business pa...

Arizona 2020 election audit Reddit AMA: answers to your most asked questions Alexis Potter, Jen Fifield and Andrew Oxford, Arizona Republic © Mark Henle/The Republic Maricopa County ballots from the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors hired by the Arizona Senate, May 5, 2021, at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Phoenix. The Arizona Senate-ordered recount of Maricopa County’s 2.1 million election ballots began on April 23, nearly six months after voters elected Joe Biden as president and declared him the winner of Arizona, a traditionally red st...

Think Arizona charter schools skate by with no oversight? Think again Jim Swanson © Mark Henle/The Republic James Swanson, a business community member, listens during an Arizona State Board for Charter Schools meeting on Sept. 10, 2018, at the Arizona Department of Education in Phoenix. As a member of the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools since 2017, I have seen up close how Arizona's charter schools are held accountable. It is a robust process and a far cry from the false narrative that charter schools operate with little to no regulatory oversight. The performance a...

'Our own survival is at stake': Arizona is using up its groundwater, researchers warn Ian James, Arizona Republic © Michael Chow, Emmanuel Lozano/The Republic The Central Arizona Project Canal runs through Scottsdale, Ariz., carrying Colorado River water. In 1980, Arizona began regulating groundwater in the state’s largest cities and suburbs under a landmark law that called for most of these areas to achieve an overarching goal by 2025: a long-term balance between the amount of water pumped from the ground and the amount seeping back underground to replenish aquifers. ...