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Peoria Unified to expend final installment of pandemic …

9/23/2024

With the deadline to use an important federal grant as relief for the COVID-19 pandemic, Peoria Unified officials say they will completely expend the nearly $35 million they received in funding.

Music students who started during COVID are sticking …

7/26/2024

The pandemic was a terrifying time. There were tests, vaccines and boosters, most people wore masks, though some refused. Schools were shut down, and many adults were forced to set up work …

VIDEO: Giving back is a way of life

12/14/2023

Lori Jensen has always had a passion for community service, but it hit particularly hard just before businesses and school closed for the pandemic, in 2020.

Chandler resident in overseas Peace Corps service

10/23/2023

Chandler resident Kajal Dave is among the first Peace Corps volunteers to return to overseas service since the agency’s unprecedented global evacuation in March 2020. The Peace Corps …

Arizona COVID-19 cases double since June, as virus …

9/11/2023

First lady Jill Biden’s positive COVID-19 test this weekend was the latest, and most high-profile, reminder that cases are once again on the rise in the U.S. and in Arizona, where new infections per week have more than doubled since early July.

Preparing for a new strain

8/22/2023

Three years on from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus still looms as hospital cases around the country are still reporting infections. Experts are now finding that many current COVID-19 cases are from a new variant named EG.5 or “Eris”

$307M overpaid by state from Pandemic Unemployment …

7/21/2023

PHOENIX — Arizona overpaid recipients of a federally funded unemployment program $307 million more than they were entitled.

Peoria Unified Superintendent tenders resignation

5/23/2023

Peoria Unified School District Superintendent Jason Reynolds has tendered his resignation, effective June 30.

Arizona Supreme Court upholds ruling on halting …

5/3/2023

PHOENIX — About 100,000 Arizonans who got their extra federal unemployment benefits cut off early during COVID by then-Gov. Doug Ducey because he instead wanted to get them to go to work at restaurants and hotels are not going to get the funds they lost.