Bookseller Kat Ysals is helping others find books at Changing Hands on a rainy Friday afternoon. She knows the store quite well after two years of working there and even longer of being a customer — as a child, she dreamed of working at the community-based bookstore. A couple pushes a cart filled…
Justin Spears Back in Tucson for the first time since January, the Arizona Wildcats men’s golf team will host the Arizona Thunderbirds Intercollegiate at Tucson Country Club, its relatively new home for the program. The two-day tournament will feature 15 teams, including New Mexico, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah State, UTEP and Long Beach State, on Monday and…
Arizona mayors railed against a bill sitting on Gov. Katie Hobbs’ desk dubbed the Arizona Starter Homes Act, and asked her to veto it on Thursday, saying it would cut out local input and upend cities’ authorities to shape the look and feel of their communities.City mayors and vice mayors from Mesa, Phoenix, Goodyear and…
The dream of homeownership is becoming increasingly elusive for many Americans as both home prices and insurance premiums are on the rise. Over the past decade, home prices have nearly doubled, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national index. Homeowners insurance premiums are climbing too. The average cost of insuring a $300,000 property surged by…
A downtown Phoenix industrial laundry building that operated for more than a century now has its owners feeling put through the wringer.The building, first called Phoenix Laundry and Dry Cleaning and now called Milum Textile Services, located on Seventh Avenue and Van Buren Street, has been in Craig Milum’s family since the 1950s.The laundry operations…
In November, a pregnant African elephant named Semba was put on 24-hour watch at an Arizona zoo.Semba, the elephant “matriarch” at the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, had birthed two babies before without issue. But this time, something was different. Routine screenings had alarmed staff of “potential medical concerns” for the mother and baby, according…
With more than 20 luxury homes listed for more than $20 million in Paradise Valley and Scottsdale, the luxury market in metro Phoenix is pushing into new price heights.”I believe we are at an inflection point in the upper echelon of the luxury space where we may indeed see a new stratospheric price threshold pushed…
Long known for affordable housing, Arizona is now among the top 10 list of least affordable states, according to data compiled by BestBrokers.The study found that the median U.S. home price reached $408,428 last year, while national income per capita stood at $68,786 as of the third quarter. This equates to the median house costing…
Back when avid pickleballers Ashley Leroux and Patrick Sullivan Jr. started making their mark with a supplement formulated for pickleball players’ hydration and energy needs, the sport was often not taken seriously, not played by many and considered an activity reserved for the senior citizen crowd.How times have changed.For the third consecutive year, pickleball is…
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — The Legislature sent a measure Wednesday to Gov. Katie Hobbs to override many local zoning laws in the name of affordable housing.On a bipartisan vote Wednesday, the Senate approved legislation that would limit the ability of large cities, of 70,000 or more people, to mandate everything from lot sizes and setbacks…