The article outlines Arizona's contentious history with recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a state holiday and the eventual voter approval in 1992.

Arizona was one of the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a public vote to do so.

It took a long and contentious fight to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday in Arizona. The big picture: The movement to carve out a day to honor King began shortly after his 1968 assassination.

The new year is opening to an uncertain and contentious future along the Colorado River. Faced with the onset of climate change, decreasing river flow and half-empty reservoirs, the seven river basin states,

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 battle over MLK Day.

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.

William Schafer III, who served as lead prosecutor in the car-bombing murder of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles in the 1970s, died last month. The big picture: Schafer was remembered at a memorial service on Friday at the Beatitudes Campus in Phoenix.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is recognized across the nation, both as a state and national holiday, on the civil rights activist’s birthday, Jan. 20. The day serves as an

Bruce Babbitt that would have made MLK Day an Arizona holiday. In 1990, the state put it up for a vote, and Arizona voters rejected the holiday. Shortly after, a national boycott that included ...

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 On Jan. 12, 1987, Mecham rescinded a 1986 executive order by previous Gov.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 ...

Considering their backloaded Big 12 schedule, the Arizona Wildcats may need to keep picking up wins against teams such as Oklahoma State and Colorado to stay in the mix.

The judge in Arizona's multistate lawsuit against President Donald Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship issued a temporary restraining order.