KJZZ Phoenix

12/18/2025

A brick-by-brick restoration is part of the annual pilgrimage to a Japanese American internment camp in western Arizona.

Hundreds showed up for this year’s pilgrimage in late October, which began with a ceremony to honor those who died at the Japanese American internment camp known as the Colorado River Relocation Center — more commonly called Poston.

Read the third part of KJZZ's Japanese Internment on Tribal Land series from Gabriel Pietrorazio: https://www.kjzz.org/indigenous-affairs/2025-12-10/brick-by-brick-restoration-part-of-annual-pilgrimage-to-internment-camp-in-western-arizona

12/18/2025

How much caffeine feels “just right” for you? Caffeine can boost focus and mood, but it’s not a replacement for real rest.

☕️ Read the full caffeine guide on NPR Life Kit: https://tinyurl.com/hfkwtwhf

12/18/2025

Pima County supervisors took a final step to advance an agreement between the county and Beale Infrastructure — the developer behind the controversial data center known as Project Blue.

The data center would be housed on a roughly 290-acre stretch of Pima County land on Tucson's southeast side. The agreement before the county board this week outlined Beale infrastructure’s commitments and stated benefits the data center would bring to the community.

12/18/2025

Opposition from Republican state lawmakers has members of the Phoenix City Council concerned that a westward expansion of the light rail system — and the hundreds of millions of federal dollars that would help pay for it — is in jeopardy.

12/18/2025

The Phoenix City Council has approved a roughly $90,000 payment to a motorist hit by a Phoenix police vehicle in April of 2021.

12/17/2025

A furniture contract for a controversial Mesa transitional housing project has been put on hold after the Mesa City Council decided to vote on it next year.

12/17/2025

A new women’s health hub will be among the first projects developed in Mesa’s new Palo District.

12/17/2025

State Sen. John Kavanagh has introduced a bill that would require most fi****ms used in homicide to be destroyed after a suspect is convicted.

12/17/2025

Pima County supervisors unanimously approved the sale of more than 400 acres of land to the National Park Service.

12/17/2025

Arizona lawmakers passed legislation to establish independent oversight of state prisons last session. Now, they want to fund it.

12/17/2025

Patrick Sandoval stepped down in March for medical reasons but shares he’s since been served at his Flagstaff home — first learning about it through a “prejudicial news release” from the Navajo Nation Council on social media over the weekend.

12/17/2025

The calendar says it’s winter, but the weather says it’s spring. Even by Phoenix standards.