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Scott Bourque/KJZZ Interstate 10 runs through downtown Phoenix. According to the 2021 Report Card For America's Infrastructure report, there are more than 66,000 miles of public roads in Arizona. Preparing for a $2 trillion overhaul of the nation’s infrastructure, the Biden administration has handed out letter grades to each state in the 2021 Report Card For America's Infrastructure report. Arizona has been given a C for its infrastructure, which sounds rather average, but only two states received a higher mark. The report says the average Arizona driver spends more than $600 annually due t...

Scott Bourque/KJZZ Tents line the sidewalks near the intersection of 12th Avenue and Madison Street near the state Capitol on Jan. 29, 2020. Tempe conducted a point-in-time count that was smaller than usual on Jan. 26, to get a sense of how many of its residents are experiencing homelessness. This year’s version was scaled back and the city says it largely used employees rather than volunteers. Maricopa County’s annual count, meanwhile, will not happen this year. The feds allowed communities to opt out of it due to the pandemic, and the Maricopa Association of Governments decided to tak...

Updated: Monday, March 22, 2021 - 12:41pm Scott Bourque/KJZZ The crowd of demonstrators marches down Sixth Avenue in Phoenix during a demonstration against police violence May 31, 2020. During Phoenix’s public safety subcommittee meeting on Wednesday, Councilmember Carlos Garcia pushed for information about surveillance. Garcia has been critical about the way police handled Black Lives Matter protests last summer and he asked Police Cmdr. Gabe Lopez what groups the department monitors.   “We do not monitor any specific group, we search for certain words, as far as — say there’s an ...