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Great Hearts Academies, Arizona's largest nonprofit network of public charter schools, has received a $50,000 grant from the APS (Arizona Public Service) Foundation to support a math program in collaboration with Reasoning Mind.

The Arizona Corporation Commission Pipeline Safety Section has received a perfect 100 score in its annual audit by the Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHSMA).

El Nino 2016 started out with promise for bringing moisture to the Arizona area but has resulted in the sixth consecutive year of below-median runoff into the Salt and Verde rivers.

Alaina Chabrier has joined Salt River Project as chief communications executive and associate general manager of marketing and communications.

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) has awarded seven Water Quality Improvement Grants (WQIG), totaling more than $1.9 million, to help improve water conditions in four state waterways.

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) has awarded the first state brownfields grant to a tribal nation.

A patent has been granted for a new testing technology developed by Northern Arizona University (NAU) and Phoenix-based Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) that makes it easier to detect and treat valley fever, a dust-borne fungal disease.

Construction of the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway begins later this summer, so several Phoenix roads along the 22-mile corridor area are now officially part of the state highway system.

Quantum Energy Inc. (QE), an energy-holding company, has begun to diversify its refinery development plan through acquisitions of several projects.

KB Home has promoted Amy McReynolds to president of its Tucson division.

Thomas Whitham, a regents' professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Northern Arizona University (NAU), has been named a recipient of the first-ever Frances B. McAllister Award for Conservation and Education by the Arboretum of Flagstaff.

APS customers across Arizona are being targeted by individuals falsely representing themselves by phone as APS employees.

The Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) has launched a service to reduce costs and increase efficiency by offering electronic delivery of ACC notices to parties with cases before the commission.

Digital Caddies Inc., a cloud-based content and media system for golf courses and golfers, has partnered with Adzzup Inc., a Phoenix-based company that sells local advertising and marketing services to businesses across the country.

Scottsdale-based Certive Solutions Inc., which creates revenue management solutions for the U.S. health care market, recently said Michael Groeger has joined the company as vice president of sales.

Taseko Mines Limited has received a permit from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) authorizing the construction, operation and closure of a 24-well in-situ copper recovery operation (ISCR) for a project based in Florence.

Arizona Public Service (APS) said Monday that work crews are busy replacing 155 power poles and fixing the power grid after last week's powerful storms.

JLL Income Property Trust has acquired Silverstone Marketplace, a grocery-anchored shopping center in Scottsdale.

Beacon Biomedical Inc., a privately held medical diagnostic company based in Phoenix, recently named Dr. Daniel Holterman as chief science officer and Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) lab director.

Arizona Corporation Commission software developer Jay Shi is on his way to Rio de Janeiro to compete in men’s pistol shooting in the 2016 Olympics.