The new year is opening to an uncertain and contentious future along the Colorado River. Faced with the onset of climate ...

Arizona didn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day until 1993, a decade after it became a federal holiday. Here's how the Super Bowl played a role.

I'd never had a white person talk to me like that,' Warren Stewart Sr. says, recalling the late Gov. Evan Mecham and the ...

Arizona was not the last state to create an ... On Jan. 12, 1987, Mecham rescinded a 1986 executive order by previous Gov. Bruce Babbitt to create the holiday after the Legislature failed to ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is recognized across the nation, both as a state and national holiday, on the civil rights ...

Jimmy Carter defeated a popular Arizona congressman to win the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and tried to defund ...

It took a long and contentious fight to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday in Arizona. The big picture: The ...

Senator from Arizona helped shape Panama Canal Treaty ... the state’s attorney general, Bruce Babbitt, became the governor. Babbitt held office until 1986, when he left to pursue his own ...