Fronteras Desk

Fronteras Desk is a unique @kjzzphoenix project that covers a wide expanse of an under-covered news desert from northern Arizona deep into northwestern Mexico.

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Aug. 16 marks one year since the the Inflation Reduction Act was enacted. It was a landmark piece of legislation that promised to fund projects across the U.S. But business leaders say labor shortages are standing in the way of those opportunities.

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Former Gov. Doug Ducey erected a wall made of shipping containers along several miles of the border in southeastern Arizona. Now that it’s been dismantled, Arizona officials are selling them online.

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It’s rained enough in northern Arizona that officials have lifted all fire restrictions in the Coconino and Kaibab national forests. And federal officials are easing some fire preparedness levels across the entire U.S. Southwest.

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A Navajo Code Talkers Day celebration will take place at the Wesley Bolin Plaza at the state Capitol on Monday. https://t.co/sqOfARS260

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A California man was found dead on a trail in Tucson this week. Forty-six-year-old Kyle Chance was found on a desert trail in the Tucson Mountains.

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It’s been almost two years to the day since the U.S. evacuated more than 70.000 Afghans from their country after the American troops withdrew and the Taliban took control. Now many of those evacuees are still in limbo and the clock is ticking.

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With the 2024 presidential election on the near horizon, state Republicans are looking ahead and suggesting a Trump victory may help reverse the Biden administration's latest executive order. https://t.co/3ry3yQ2dEa

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Declaring it good “not only for Arizona but for the planet,” President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a national monument designation for the greater Grand Canyon, turning the decades-long visions of Native American tribes and environmentalists into reality.

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President Joe Biden will use his visit to Arizona on Tuesday to formally announce a national monument designation for the greater Grand Canyon, making Native American tribes' and environmentalists' decades-long vision to preserve the land a reality. https://t.co/rwyY3rKqOm

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The Biden administration’s asylum rule at the border is here to stay for now after an appeals court ruled in favor of the government’s request to put a lower court ruling on hold.

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The American Immigration Council crunched recent U.S. census data and found the percent of undocumented students in college in Arizona was slightly higher than the national share.

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Another migrant has died from the effects of extreme heat after crossing the Mexican border into Arizona.
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Arizona's Raúl Grijalva and other Democratic lawmakers in Washington say the Biden administration is failing to provide access to legal counsel for asylum seekers held in Customs and Border Protection custody.

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A federal judge in California has ruled to vacate a new asylum rule enacted by the Biden administration in May, when the pandemic-era restriction Title 42 came to an end.

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Voters in Douglas approved a ballot initiative to create stricter groundwater regulations through what’s called an Active Management Area. At least for now, it will remain in place after county officials threw out a separate initiative to eliminate it.

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Congressional Democrats are asking the Biden administration to introduce federal protections for workers exposed to extreme heat.

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Investigators have completed their scrutiny of last year’s Tunnel Fire that destroyed 30 homes northeast of Flagstaff.

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Sheriff’s investigators in northern Arizona have accused an Ash Fork firefighter in a string of arsons and have so far charged him in nine separate counts.

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More funding is on the way for cleaning up PFAS. That’s the group of human-made chemicals used in a wide range of products that’s now being found in drinking water. PFAS have been found in air, soil and water around the world.

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Hundreds of people gathered in Flagstaff on Tuesday to listen to public comments that overwhelmingly supported the designation of a new national monument surrounding Grand Canyon National Park.

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