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How DeVries’ roster construction can lead Indiana men’s basketball into the modern era
Under former head coach Mike Woodson, the Indiana men’s basketball program was a post-heavy, big-man factory. In Woodson’s four seasons at the helm, two of his star big men went to the NBA — Trayce Jackson-Davis to the Golden State Warriors in...

The groundwater war in Arizona
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LMI shows logistics expansion continues at slower pace amid falling transportation and warehousing osts
Despite a sequential decline, the logistics sector continued to show growth in September, according to the recently-released Logistics Managers' Index (LMI). The monthly LMI is a joint project among researchers from Arizona State University,...

Ground broken on new industrial campus in North Scottsdale
Independent Newsmedia Ground has been broken on an upcoming 267,000-square-foot Class-A industrial campus in North Scottsdale. An empty stretch of land along the Loop 101 will become The Loop Business Park, according to a press release. This new...

Dallas Fed: Rush for U.S. lithium production encounters tough economics
Posted/updated on: October 14, 2025 at 4:42 pm DALLAS – A large number of lithium projects are moving forward in the U.S. with the potential for a boom in domestic production of the key resource, but the long-term outlook for the industry is...

Fiscal hawk in governor's race seeks to modernize Arizona
The Center Square) - The latest candidate in the race for Arizona governor - U.S. Rep. David Schweikert, a fiscal hawk - says Arizona is ready for a “dramatic modernization." In September, the Scottsdale Republican announced his candidacy....

Another Arizona mobile home park sued for ‘deadly’ conditions
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing another manufactured home park and its owners in her latest effort to bring accountability to an industry that has long had little concrete oversight. Mayes filed a consumer fraud lawsuit against Palo...

Government awards $800 million for “Smart Wall” on Arizona border
A Friday press release said the September contracts, funded primarily from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will add 230 miles of barriers and nearly 400 miles of technology. CBP awarded nearly $200 million to Barnard Spencer Joint Venture for 60...

NV Energy reports multiple outages in Carson City, Douglas, Tahoe and Reno Tuesday morning
As of 9:20 Tuesday morning, there are multiple outages reported by NV Energy throughout the region. In Carson City, two outages were reported as of 9:06 p.m. affecting around 130 customers. The outage is under investigation, and there is no...

FAU Research: Logistics Expansion Slows as Transportation Prices Drop
The Logistics Managers’ Index had the lowest overall reading since March as the supply chain reacts to economic uncertainty, according to researchers from Florida Atlantic University and four other schools. The Logistics Managers’ Index had the...

Arizona recovering addicts warn kratom is poorly marketed, dangerous
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Drive around town and shops offering kratom products seem to be as prevalent as McDonald’s these days. Instead of getting a Happy Meal, recovering addicts say people are entering a world that’s hard to escape. Aaron, a...

How Arizona Hispanic Chamber data fuels business success
Arizona’s Hispanic community continues to drive population growth, entrepreneurship, and consumer spending. At the heart of this momentum is the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (AZHCC), a 75-year-old organization dedicated to advancing...

Arizona gold prospecting is becoming popular again as market prices rise
Rising gold prices are driving up an old industry in Arizona — prospecting. Gold has risen to $4,000 an ounce right now. Here in Arizona, the price spike has led to an increase in prospecting club memberships. The Roadrunners Prospector’s Club in...

Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks
Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone more than 450 acres in the Indianapolis suburb,...

Arizona kidney patients deserve innovative cures
Javier Palomarez America spends more than $130 billion a year — over one-quarter of the entire Medicare budget — on kidney disease. And yet, when it comes to actually saving lives, we lag behind 24 other countries, including France, Saudi Arabia,...

Arizona football progress report: Grading the Cats through the first half of the season
In Ted Lasso-esque fashion, Arizona head coach Brent Brennan maintained a positive outlook on the Wildcats' first six games of the season, even in the minutes after a gut-wrenching loss. Arizona is 4-2 — matching its win total from last season —...

Immigration crackdown will impact agriculture and food prices, Labor Department says
The U.S. Department of Labor has acknowledged that President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration could mean fewer farm workers and rising prices. The Labor Department said that the speed and scale of the efforts to enforce immigration...

Student cohort takes on Arizona heat
In 2022, Arizona State University received $25 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to investigate and gain a better understanding of heat-related stressors across the state of Arizona. Shortly thereafter, ASU joined forces with...

Car Hauling Dispatch Services: How U.S. Auto Logistics Keeps the Market Moving
Imagine a busy car dealership eagerly awaiting new inventory, or a buyer in Lagos tracking a vehicle purchased from a U.S. auto auction. In both cases, success depends on one critical link: getting those cars from point A to point B quickly and...

Tracing Hereford's Wild West Roots In Southern Arizona
In Cochise County, we hear a lot about Sierra Vista, Fort Huachuca, Bisbee, and Tombstone. They each have a storied past and were instrumental in creating the foundations for the area where I live. Some of the smaller towns in this part of Arizona...