The ZIP codes where home prices have seen the biggest surge during the past 12 months reveal a surprising new collection of potential housing hot spots where property owners could find themselves sitting on an increasingly valuable asset. Amid rising economic volatility and tumbling stock markets, Realtor.com® data has revealed 10 areas where house prices have shot up since the first quarter of 2024—with Sheffield, AL, emerging as one of the ZIP codes with the biggest median increase. A majority of the 10 ZIP codes where house prices have surged...

More than a dozen vaccination clinics were canceled in Pima County, Arizona. So was a media blitz to bring low-income children in Washoe County, Nevada, up to date on their shots. Planned clinics were also scuttled in Texas, Minnesota, and Washington, among other places. Immunization efforts across the country were upended after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly canceled $11.4 billion in COVID-related funds for state and local health departments in late March. A federal judge last week in some states, including Arizona, after a group of...

After 15 Arizona chefs and restaurants were named semifinalists for the 2025 James Beard Foundation Awards in January, two Phoenix chefs moved on to the finalist round: One for Best Chef — Southwest and the other for Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker. In 2024, 12 Arizonans were semifinalists, including Rene Andrade of Bacanora and Huarachis, who took home the title of Best Chef — Southwest. Winning a James Beard Award is one of the highest honors a chef or restaurant can receive. It is basically the Oscars of the food...

The khakis are on the move. Steve Kornacki, the undisputed king of election night big-board mastery (though CNN's John King may have something to say about that), is leaving MSNBC to appear exclusively on NBC, as first reported by the Los Angeles Times. This is not like jumping from the Earth to the moon, or even from MSNBC to Fox News. But it's still a notable change — and more fallout from parent company Comcast's upcoming spin-off of MSNBC to create a separate company. MSNBC and NBC will become separate...

The summer of 2024 marked a climate milestone for central Arizona: Daily highs in Phoenix reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit for 113 consecutive days, shattering records for triple-digit temperatures. Even though the year is young, Arizona has already beat another heat record in 2025: On March 25, afternoon temperatures in Phoenix hit 99 degrees, an astonishing springtime scorcher. As the fifth-largest city in the US, with the fastest-growing population as recently as 2020, Phoenix and its infamous sprawl practically erupts with greenhouse gases.

The founder of electric vehicle startup Nikola announced on Mar. 27 that he has received a full and unconditional pardon from President Donald Trump. "This pardon is not just about me—it’s about every American who has been railroaded by the government, and unfortunately, that’s a lot of people," read a post Trevor Milton made on his X (formerly Twitter) account. According to the Associated Press, White House officials confirmed the pardon on March 28, but there was no notice of a pardon on the White House website. The AP also...