While Maricopa County's heat-related deaths were still brutally high in 2024, they showed their first annual decline in a ...

Thousands of gallons of nitric acid spilled in Buckeye on Thursday afternoon, police said. The National Library of Medicine describes nitric acid as being “very toxic" when inhaled. A Phoenix ...

The number of confirmed heat deaths in Maricopa County was 602 last year, with eight deaths still under investigation. The decline in fatalities was the first in a decade, and county officials ...