Matthew Casey

The state Gaming Department has formally told a company in a former Dutch colony in the Caribbean Sea to stop an illegal gambling operation in Arizona. The Gaming Department director says her enforcement team is determined to keep off-shore betting syndicates from setting up here.

Workers at nine Starbucks locations in Arizona have formed unions via elections run by the National Labor Relations Board. A new decision by the independent federal agency against the coffee conglomerate resets the line on what the board considers an unlawful threat to workers thinking of organizing.

Tuesday is, of course, Election Day. And it's also when a selection committee releases the first in a series of weekly Top 25 rankings leading up to what will be an expanded College Football Playoff.

Phoenix invested $15 million about three years ago to expand a crisis response program that had been volunteer-based for decades. The program administrator said at a public meeting on Wednesday that about two-thirds of the staff that the money can pay for has been hired.

Illegal and taboo were among the top adjectives to describe marijuana before Arizona voters chose legalization less than five years ago. Today a local dispensary partners with a blood and biotherapy nonprofit to hold drives that have led to more than one hundred donations since June.

Years of making incorrect property classifications led to a class-action judgment that means Maricopa County owes roughly $333 million in return payments to taxpayers. The Maricopa County Community College District says in a notice of claim that its account is being unjustly and unlawfully raided by the county treasurer to help pay the bill.

The Phoenix Police Department wants your feedback on a draft of a new policy for how officers are to handle protests that are planned or spontaneous. The request comes after the U.S. Justice Department said Phoenix police retaliate against people exercising the right to free speech with violence and bogus allegations.

KJZZ's "Policing the Police" series examines the U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation of Phoenix by section, as well as the city's efforts to self-impose reforms.

KJZZ's "Policing the Police" series examines the U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation of Phoenix by section, as well as the city's efforts to self-impose reforms. This report focuses on the finding by the DOJ that Phoenix police unlawfully restrict free speech.

KJZZ's "Policing the Police" series examines the U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation of Phoenix by section, as well as the city's efforts to self-impose reforms. This report focuses on homelessness.