Top 10 Arizona news stories of 2015
Headlines from the most important stories in Arizona this year.
PHOENIX — For three weeks in August and September, drivers across the Phoenix metropolitan area were rattled by a string of shootings that hit…
Gov. Doug Ducey tweeted "We got him!" just minutes after Merritt was arrested, but the case is far from over. Merritt's lawyers are mounting a…
Islamic State's murderous onslaught in 2015 had multiple connections to Arizona. Kayla Mueller, an aid worker from Prescott, was kidnapped in …
The entire world was watching Arizona on Feb. 1 when the New England Patriots squared off against the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl in Gl…
Education returned as a hot-button political issue in 2015. The source of the fight was a lawsuit brought by schools after lawmakers slashed K…
The longtime Maricopa County sheriff had what may have been the roughest year of his career. He was called into federal court on contempt-of-c…
A violent flash flood tore through the polygamous towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, in September, sweeping away a van and SU…
The governor called it "frightening and disturbing." Rioting and unrest broke out at a privately run prison in Kingman in July, causing nine g…
Arizona found itself in the middle of another high-profile U.S. Supreme Court ruling with national implications in 2015. The court upheld how …
Ducey signed a $9.1 billion budget in March that Republicans said was a fiscally responsible act that put the state on more solid financial fo…
One week after a gunman killed nine people at a community college in Oregon in October, Northern Arizona became the site of a deadly school sh…
