Sports and social change were intertwined long before Colin Kaepernick took a knee in protest in 2016 – and one of the earliest entanglements took place in Arizona.
In 1991, the NFL moved Super Bowl XXX from Phoenix to Pasadena after Arizonans vetoed an MLK holiday in a contentious and confusing vote. Afterward, the state had much to prove.
A poorly designed ballot and a bevy of court cases left the 1916 Arizona governor’s election undecided – for more than a year.
From the state’s founding governor to a certain mascara-smeared heavy metal legend, here’s who would populate our theoretical Mount Rushmore.
Predictions of rich oil deposits in Arizona fueled successive exploration booms that produced gullible investors, but no black gold.
PathogenDX’s innovative DNA-based technology fast-tracks potentially deadly microbial discoveries.
The resurgence of drag shows on Roosevelt Row recalls the heyday of Downtown gay bar 307 Lounge.
Rock star scientist Dr. Herbert Stahnke dazzled audiences in his 1950s TV show and created a life-saving scorpion antivenin.
Early in the 20th century, the abduction of 40 Irish orphans from their Mexican foster families in Clifton created a legal battle heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ruess wandered Depression-era Arizona, capturing its beauty, until he mysteriously vanished in southeastern Utah.
Historical landmarks are scant in Phoenix and recent demos raise a troubling question: What’s the impact if an owner neglected the property intentionally?
An enormous salt deposit sitting beneath Luke Airforce Base helped spice up the West Valley’s postwar economy and still serves several vital purposes today.
Luke Air Force Base is distributing bottled water to nearby residents due to groundwater contamination – but the problem can’t be washed away.
Hattie Mosher was a progressive force in early Phoenix until construction debacles and frivolous tax protests over road improvements left her destitute.
A Great Depression-era government program launched a commercial fishing industry in the Salt River lakes that thrived for three decades.