Brooke Henderson is having an easy time in the T-Mobile Match Play at Shadow Creek.

A Georgia businessman who scammed former NBA star Dwight Howard out of millions of dollars in a bogus scheme to buy the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream has been sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison.

A vaccination to prevent horribly painful shingles may offer an extra benefit: New research suggests it might lower the risk of dementia, too.

An influential travel forecasting company says anger over the Trump administration’s tariffs and rhetoric will likely cause international travel to the U.S. to fall even further than expected this year.

Lilia Vu leads a star-packed leaderboard at the Ford Championship in Arizona.

Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers.

Phoenix has flirted with its first 100-degree day of the year, but fell just short of that milestone.

Shortstop Mookie Betts will miss the Los Angeles Dodgers’ two exhibition games in Japan because of an illness.

Shohei Ohtani begins his second season with the Los Angeles Dodgers in his native Japan, taking on the Chicago Cubs in a pair of games at the Tokyo Dome.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes have adopted sharply different approaches to handling Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Shohei Ohtani’s bat is ready for the Los Angeles Dodgers while Shota Imanaga has looked good on the mound for the Chicago Cubs with less than 10 days remaining before baseball's regular-season opener in Japan.

Tribal leaders across the United States are scrambling to respond to a directive from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to close more than a quarter of Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, which provide vital services to Indigenous communities.

A Democratic lawmaker who gained attention last year with a speech revealing she was planning to get an abortion is resigning from the Arizona Legislature.

A brutal season for the Phoenix Suns hit a low Sunday night with a humiliating 116-98 home loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Japanese phenom pitcher Roki Sasaki has revealed that he is married.

Slick-fielding shortstop Geraldo Perdomo has agreed to a $45 million, four-year contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks that begins in 2026.

The majority of state constitutions shield lawmakers from arrests, lawsuits and low-level infractions like traffic tickets during legislative sessions.

Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons and appoint an official to run them.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki are the likely starting pitchers for the Los Angeles Dodgers when they face the Chicago Cubs in Tokyo next month, according to manager Dave Roberts.

Kevin Durant has become the eighth player in NBA history to score 30,000 points.

The Los Angeles Dodgers went through a light workout and most of the usual superstars were out on the field, including National League MVP Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts.

A record 13 women had been serving as governor this year.

A person familiar with the deal says DeWanna Bonner is headed to Indiana to join Caitlin Clark and the Fever.

The NBA has suspended Dallas Mavericks forward Naji Marshall for four games and Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic for three games for their roles in an on-court fight.

Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal each scored 27 points and the Phoenix Suns beat the Denver Nuggets 110-100 night in the nightcap to the NBA’s Christmas slate of games.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says she is suing a Saudi Arabian agribusiness over what she calls “excessive pumping” of groundwater.

Waymo is gearing up to bring its robotaxi service to Miami which will accelerate an expansion that’s been happening while its hobbled rivals remain in its rearview mirror.

Reproductive rights advocates are trying to dismantle a 15-week abortion ban in Arizona that conflicts with newly expanded access establishing a fundamental right to abortion in the state.

Top officials in Arizona have certified the state’s election results.

According to a Southwest Airlines spokesperson, Southwest Airlines Flight 2494 at Dallas Love Field Airport was reportedly struck by gunfire on the right side of the aircraft.

A former Phoenix Suns employee is suing the team, alleging racial discrimination and unlawful retaliation that led to her termination.

Republican Arizona legislator Justin Heap has been elected to oversee elections in the state’s most populous county.

A person familiar with the decisions tells The Associated Press.

Democrats are spending about $500,000 for a last-minute push to persuade voters in battleground states to reject third-party candidates Jill Stein and Cornel West.

Michael Jordan won a championship in Phoenix in 1993.

Voters in Arizona and Massachusetts are set to decide whether employers should be able to continue to pay tipped workers such as servers and bartenders a lower minimum wage than non-tipped workers.

American voters are hearing both parties promise to help the middle class if they win the election next month.

Divorce records for Arizona's Democratic Senate candidate Ruben Gallego and his ex-wife, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, are now public.

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Increasingly hot summers and methamphetamine are a deadly mix.

Early in-person voting is beginning in Arizona, making it the first of this year’s presidential battleground states where all residents can cast a ballot at a traditional polling place ahead of Election Day.

The Arizona Diamondbacks arrived at Chase Field on Monday afternoon for a light workout and heavy anxiety.

Luis Arraez held off Shohei Ohtani’s bid to win the National League Triple Crown and was set to become the first player since the 1800s to earn batting titles with three teams.

The president of the NCAA lashed out at “evidence of dysfunction in today’s NIL environment” while reiterating his desire to see Congress create national guidelines to set the template for the so-called name, image and likeness endorsement deals that are reshaping college sports.

A federal jury in Texas has cleared a group of former President Donald Trump supporters and found one person liable in a civil trial over a so-called “Trump Train” that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus in 2020.

Jury deliberations have begun in Texas in a civil trial over a so-called “Trump Train” that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus days before the 2020 election.

Members of an Arizona tribe urged a federal judge at a daylong hearing in Phoenix to extend a temporary ban on exploratory drilling for a lithium project near lands they have used for religious and cultural ceremonies for centuries.

Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever have clinched the sixth seed in the WNBA playoffs.

Aaron Judge is mashing homers at an astounding pace for the New York Yankees.

A jury will soon decide whether a so-called Trump Train that circled a Biden-Harris campaign bus violently intimidated former Democratic lawmaker Wendy Davis and two others.

Scores of schools across the U.S. are carpeted in asphalt with no shade.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a “fact of life" and the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia.

It’s always hot this time of year in central Arizona, but 2024's endless summer has been especially hot in Phoenix.

Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman led off Saturday’s game with consecutive home runs for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Will Smith hit a late three-run homer, Shohei Ohtani added his 43rd of the season and the Los Angeles Dodgers extended their NL West lead to five games with a 10-9 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

A conservative group has told Arizona officials that it plans to monitor ballot drop boxes for the November election and identify people they believe are voting illegally.

Prosecutors are defending their case against Republicans accused of plotting to overturn the results of the close 2020 presidential race in Arizona after defense attorneys painted them as politically motivated.

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In a story published Aug. 27, 2024, about a hearing for Republicans accused of scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential race in Arizona, The Associated Press omitted the year a trial for the remaining defendants is scheduled to start.

Cruise’s trouble-ridden robotaxis are on the road to joining Uber’s ride-hailing service next year as part of a multiyear partnership bringing together two companies that once appeared poised to compete for passengers.

Voters in Arizona and Montana will be able to decide whether they want to protect the right to an abortion in their state constitutions.

The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that an informational pamphlet for voters can refer to a fetus as an “unborn human being.”.

Voters in Arizona will get to decide in November whether to add the right to an abortion up to about 24 weeks to the state constitution.

Advocates say air conditioning is no longer a luxury but a public health and affordability issue.

Pay and benefits for America’s workers grew more slowly in the April-June quarter than in the first three months of the year, a trend that could keep price pressures in check and encourage the inflation-fighters at the Federal Reserve.

Kari Lake has won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Arizona, setting up a fierce battle against Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego for a seat that could be crucial to deciding Senate control.

As much of the world swelters, it’s not just people who need help with the dog days of summer.

The WNBA All-Star Game drew a record number of viewers with 3.44 million people watching the contest in Phoenix on Saturday night.

There is no panic in the U.S. women’s Olympic team.

Allisha Gray won the WNBA All-Star skills competition, beating hometown favorite Sophie Cunningham in the finals.

The fight to keep a proposed immigration initiative off Arizona's Nov. 5 ballot is not over yet.

WNBA players have amped up their clothes game, garnering attention off the court for their pregame fashion choices.

WNBA players' union head Terri Jackson is concerned the league is being undervalued with the $2.2 billion over 11 years it will receive as part of the NBA’s recently approved media rights deals.

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Abortion access ballot measures are the center of a new wave of legal and procedural questions across the U.S. In Arizona, there's a dispute over language to describe a measure that could go before voters in November.

A visitor to Death Valley National Park has died from heat exposure and another person has been hospitalized as the temperature there reached 128 degrees this weekend.

Records are tumbling across the West as a slow-moving heat wave of potentially historic proportions tightens its grip from the Pacific Northwest to Arizona.

The National Weather Service says that around 134 million people in the U.S. are under alerts as an extremely dangerous and record-breaking heat wave broils much of the country.

Sizzling sidewalks and unshaded playgrounds are a danger for catastrophic burn injuries as air temperatures reach new summer highs in desert cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas.

Most of the U.S. may be looking forward to July Fourth for dazzling displays of fireworks or setting off firecrackers and poppers with their neighbors.

Evacuation orders in Arizona have been lifted for some residents of northeast Scottsdale who have been out of their homes for days because of a wildfire.

More than 200 firefighters were battling a wildfire northeast of Phoenix that threatened scores of homes and has forced dozens of residents to evacuate.

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Authorities are investigating whether a 27-year-old temporary election worker had political motivations when he stole a fob that allows access to vote tabulators in Arizona's largest county.

At least six people have died from heat-related causes this year so far in sizzling metro Phoenix, where the temperatures this week hit 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius), Arizona’s Maricopa Department of Public Health reported this week.

Much of the Midwest and the Northeast is broiling — or set to broil — in extreme summer heat this week.

Over 75 million people in the United States are under extreme heat alerts as a heat wave moves eastward.

Extreme weather that ranged from triple digit temperatures in the Southwest to unseasonable cold in the Pacific Northwest was forecast over the U.S. into the early week.

A heat wave will bring dangerously hot temperatures to the Midwest and Northeast next week, with health officials urging people to make plans now to stay safe.

Supporters of over two dozen alleged victims of civil rights violations at the hands of Phoenix police say a scathing Justice Department report is vindication.

The U.S. Justice Department says Phoenix police had a pattern of violating people's rights, from unjustified deadly force to discrimination against minorities and homeless populations.

The Justice Department says Phoenix police discriminate against Black, Hispanic and Native American people, unlawfully detain homeless people and use excessive force, including unjustified deadly force.

Las Vegas has set a new record high for the second day in a row and Albuquerque tied its high mark.

Professional athletes get told at the start of every season that if they gamble on their games, the consequences are severe.

The season’s first heat wave is already baking the Southwestern U.S. with triple-digit temperatures as Phoenix firefighters employ new tactics in hopes of saving more lives.

The first heat wave of the season has arrived earlier than usual across much of the U.S. Southwest.

Officials in America’s hottest big metro are working to better protect people amid temperatures already hitting the triple digits this spring.

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Mike Budenholzer was introduced as coach of the Phoenix Suns on Friday.

Phoenix Mercury All-Star center Brittney Griner has a fractured toe in her left foot, which will cause her to miss an undisclosed amount of time.