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As state parks struggle, Yuma partnership steps in to preserve historic depot

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By TRAVIS GRABOW
Cronkite News Service
YUMA _ Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park preserves everything from original buildings like the commanding officer’s quarters to covered wagons that carried supplies to Army posts around […]

Quick facts about Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park

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Here are quick facts about Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park:

History project has high school students recording veterans’ stories

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By KRISTA NORSWORTHY
Cronkite News Service
PHOENIX _ What sticks with Kevin Kane most […]

Quick facts about Arizona Heritage Project

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Here are quick facts about the Arizona Heritage Project at Cactus Shadows High School in Cave Creek:

Brewer: Long-term solution to Arizona’s economic woes depends on jobs

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By CHRISTINE ROGEL
Cronkite News Service
PHOENIX (Wednesday, Nov. 4) _ While a temporary sales tax increase would help address Arizona’s budget crisis, a long-term solution will depend on attracting firms that offer high-paying jobs, Gov. Jan Brewer […]

Quick facts about state Sen. Steve Pierce

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Here are quick facts about Sen. Steve Pierce, R-Prescott:

Places with information on H1N1 flu strain and vaccine

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Here are places to find information about the H1N1 virus and vaccine:

State Supreme Court: Data underlying electronic documents is public record

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By ALEXANDER MacLEAN
Cronkite News Service
PHOENIX (Thursday, Oct. 29) _ The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Thursday that government officials must provide versions of public documents kept electronically in their original formats, a decision that media attorneys and academics said provides more flexibility in reviewing […]

Authorities break up drug-smuggling operation passing through Tohono O’Odham Nation

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By TRAVIS GRABOW
Cronkite News Service
PHOENIX (Monday, Oct. 26) _ A joint effort by several law enforcement agencies shut down a large drug-smuggling operation and will help authorities better understand how to fight trafficking near the border and across the Tohono O’Odham Nation, […]

Kingman-area family continues tradition of mining turquoise

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By CHRISTINE ROGEL
Cronkite News Service
KINGMAN _ Since 1962, members of Marty Colbaugh’s family and their employees have been digging turquoise from a copper mine northwest of town, hauling it around in five […]

Supporters: Law raising microbrewery production limit good for Arizona firms, jobs

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By CHRISTINE ROGEL
Cronkite News Service
TEMPE _ Jim Scussel and his partners started Four Peaks Brewing Co. 13 years […]

Quick facts about microbreweries in Arizona

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Nogales-area businesses banding together to bring customers back

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By CHRISTINE ROGEL
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Quick facts about the impact of visitors from Mexico

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A 2008 report by the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management offers these facts about the impact of visitors from Mexico:

Eastern Arizona residents revel in honor of providing U.S. Capitol Christmas tree

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By ALEXANDER MacLEAN
Cronkite News Service
ALPINE (Tuesday, Sept. 15) _ Jay Luger hasn’t seen so much attention focused on this eastern Arizona hamlet since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reintroduced Mexican gray wolves in 1998, sparking complaints from […]

Quick facts about the Capitol Christmas Tree

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Here are quick facts about the Capitol Christmas Tree, which this year is coming from Arizona:

Governor, Alice Cooper urge Arizonans to dine out for the common good

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By CHRISTINE ROGEL
Cronkite News Service
PHOENIX (Thursday, Sept. 10) _ Gov. Jan Brewer took the stage Thursday with rocker and restaurateur Alice Cooper to convince Arizonans that dining out is good for the state.
Announcing a three-month public-awareness campaign called Dine […]

Quick facts about the Dine 4 AZ program

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Here are quick facts about the Dine 4 AZ public-awareness campaign:

In tough environment for tourist businesses, it helps to stand out

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By CHRISTINE ROGEL
Cronkite News Service
SEDONA _ Next to a sign promising red rock views from every room of an inn _ walk-ins welcome _ and down […]

Travel spending in Arizona from 1998 on

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Here is total annual travel spending reported by the Arizona Office of Tourism from 1998 to 2008: