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He is a 26-year-old Mexican man who is 5-foot-8 and weighs about 160 pounds. His last known address was in Congress at 326 W. Roadrunner.

Planners for five key Western cities, including Phoenix, said Wednesday that they will seek $50 million from Congress in the next transportation bill to study the feasibility of a high-speed passenger-rail network.

Phoenix is getting on the bullet train bandwagon. It wants in on $50 million from Congress to study the feasibility of a high-speed passenger-rail network.

The former president and chief executive of the Mayo Clinic is about to call Arizona home.

Forming an association of mayors to lobby on behalf of municipalities in Yavapai, Coconino and Mohave counties drew unanimous support Thursday from the Town Council.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management and local fire departments plan to burn piles of brush in the Congress and Black Canyon City areas Saturday.

Austrian police have arrested an American woman sought in connection with the killing of her ex-husband, who died when a pipe bomb exploded in his car more than a decade ago, law enforcement officials said Friday.

Courtesy of Cage the Elephant The Score : Solo artists featured at Parasol Project Parasol Project is celebrating the one-man band with a two-day festival featuring a documentary film and a showcase of solo musicians from Arizona and elsewhere.

On Nov. 18, a long-standing record Arizonans have been rightly proud of was regrettably eclipsed when 92-year-old U.S. Sen.

Losing his seat in Congress was the best chance J.D. Hayworth had to advance his political career.

A deluge of uninsured patients may swamp the health care system in the wake of the end of federally subsidized benefits for the uninsured.

As President Barack Obama prepares to announce a new strategy and troop increase for the war in Afghanistan, many Democrats in Congress are bridling at the likely cost.

Arizonans who get health insurance through their employers can expect to pay more and receive less coverage next year.

Search and rescue teams with the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office found a 62-year-old New Mexico man who went missing this past week after he wondered off from a companion while treasure hunting in a wilderness area east of Highway 89 between Congress and Yarnell.

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Federal immigration-enforcement agents on Thursday notified 1,000 companies nationwide, 52 in Arizona, that the government is auditing their hiring records to check for illegal workers.

While health care and the economy continue to toil and dominate every American discussion from chambers of Congress to dinner tables, reform of another kind still dominates Arizona - immigration.

More than 57,000 unemployed Arizonans will be notified this week of their eligibility for additional weeks of unemployment insurance benefits.

First it was bank bailouts. Then health-care reform. Now people are organizing "tea parties" to rally against illegal immigration.

One of the key attorneys fighting Arizona's employer sanctions law is hoping the Obama administration keeps politics out of its legal opinions of the statute.