For years, alt-weekly newspapers like the Phoenix New Times were able to pay their bills thanks to lax content policies when it came to their ads, which ran the gamut from used boats to escort services.Many Phoenicians know how that story ended with New Times owner Mike Lacey spinning off the ad business into a separate company called Backpage.com, for which he was later
Some Phoenix leaders want to expand the city’s ban on camping in public spaces, but legal questions remain.Phoenix currently bans camping on sidewalks and in alleys, city parks, canals and washes. The majority of the council’s public safety subcommittee wants to expand the ban within 500 feet of schools, child-care centers and shelters.
There is no evidence an Arizona house fire that killed five children was caused by arson, authorities said Wednesday.Investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found no trace of accelerants on debris samples taken from the December blaze, Bullhead City police said in a news release.The cause remains undetermined.Both ATF and the Lake Havasu City
The UN COP 28 climate talks have ended, and only time will tell how their outcomes affect greenhouse emissions.But with extreme climate events already upon us, a new study in the journal Nature Cities asks, “What if we lessen heat impacts while the slow mitigation process takes hold?”
This year is likely to be the hottest on record, with the average temperature set to be 1.4 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average.The data was released by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization late last week.The report found that the El Niño pattern, which brought higher temperatures, emerged in the Northern Hemisphere during the spring and accelerated in the