It took a long and contentious fight to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday in Arizona. The big picture: The movement to carve out a day to honor King began shortly after his 1968 assassination.

Arizona was one of the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a public vote to do so.

The new year is opening to an uncertain and contentious future along the Colorado River. Faced with the onset of climate change, decreasing river flow and half-empty reservoirs, the seven river basin states,

I'd never had a white person talk to me like that,' Warren Stewart Sr. says, recalling the late Gov. Evan Mecham and the Arizona battle over MLK Day.

Arizona didn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day until 1993, a decade after it became a federal holiday. Here's how the Super Bowl played a role.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is recognized across the nation, both as a state and national holiday, on the civil rights activist’s birthday, Jan. 20. The day serves as an

William Schafer III, who served as lead prosecutor in the car-bombing murder of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles in the 1970s, died last month. The big picture: Schafer was remembered at a memorial service on Friday at the Beatitudes Campus in Phoenix.

Here's what Gov. Katie Hobbs said when she delivered her third State of the State address at the Arizona Capitol on Monday.

President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration will coincide with MLK Day, marking only the second such overlap in U.S. history.