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Leashed pups get their own parade, cooling pools, and a $35 ticket for one day at the Phoenix Zoo this fall.
The 3.5-acre park near Hayden Road adds bone-shaped benches, rotating turf cells, and a footbridge over a natural wash.
A $160,000-plus overhaul brings free pizza, giveaways and a post-ceremony pool splash to the Balsz neighborhood park.
The Eastmark branch's folded-wood ceiling and robot greeter helped it beat out libraries from nine countries for a $5,000 global prize.
A new branch on Lower Buckeye Road aims to end years of long drives for southwest Phoenix families craving local library access.
A new lawsuit says Arizona hunters killed 519 juvenile mountain lions since 2018, just weeks before the season reopens.
The 27th Avenue facility now runs eleven optical sorters and a contamination-hunting robot for 420,000 Phoenix households.
Coyotes ran across a Phoenix man's roof two nights in a row, scratching at his window. Officials say remove food sources and haze bold animals to prevent repeat visits.
Phoenix Fire crews pulled a heat-struck hiker from Echo Canyon — the fourth rescue on Camelback in two days as the city prepares a pilot to close trails on extreme-heat days.
Unusually warm nights and urban heat islands are stressing saguaros across Phoenix; garden scientists are tracking rising mortality and raising seedlings.
Arizona wildlife officials want hunters to bury rabbit carcasses and report sick or dead animals as RHDV2 shows up across the state. Simple field steps can slow spread.
A retired Phoenix officer captured a rare albino rattlesnake in Gold Canyon; specialists say the tyrosinase‑positive female is pregnant and under study.
Park rangers seek help identifying a tourist who damaged a Hopi headpiece inside the Desert View Watchtower on June 17. The artifact, by Fred Kabotie, is now secured while investigators gather tips.
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