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Sep 2025 23

This thousand-foot bridge is Arizona’s longest. Have you driven on it?

By USA Today Network via Reuters Connect | LOCAL CULTURE, COMMUNITY, USA Today Network via Reuters Connect

Arizona has over 8,000 bridges, but do you know which one is the longest?

Sep 2025 23

Fighting a health insurance denial? Here are 7 tips to help

By KFF Health News | HEALTHCARE, EVERGREEN, KFF Health News

To control costs, nearly all health insurers use a system called prior authorization, which requires patients or their providers to seek approval before they can get certain procedures, tests, and prescriptions.

Nearly half of insured adults who received a prior authorization denial in the past two years reported the appeals process was either somewhat or very difficult.

Sep 2025 22

Fine dining restaurant known for ‘World’s Coldest Martini’ is coming to Arizona

By USA Today Network via Reuters Connect | FOOD AND DRINK, COMMUNITY, USA Today Network via Reuters Connect

Drake's Hollywood, a bougie Texas-based restaurant known for the "World's Coldest Martini" is making its Arizona debut in Scottsdale.

people in suits and dresses at a fancy restaurant

Sep 2025 22

Inside a woman’s fight to save her family’s tortilla business in a historic Tucson barrio

By USA Today Network via Reuters Connect | LOCAL BUSINESS, COMMUNITY, USA Today Network via Reuters Connect

Gracie Soto was dealt a financial blow in 2022 that almost destroyed her family's beloved market in Tucson. Here's how she's fighting back.

woman holding up tortilla dough inside a kitchen

Sep 2025 19

10 Phoenix farms & fall fests offering pumpkins, hayrides & more

By Trinity Murchie | THINGS TO DO, EVERGREEN, Trinity Murchie

The days are shorter and the wind is crisper. This can only mean one thing: It’s time to welcome the fall in Phoenix with hayrides, pumpkin patches, and more.

Phoenix and the surrounding cities are notoriously hot until post-Halloween, but that makes it all the more fun to take an evening stroll on the town to explore all the fall-time fests.

Sep 2025 17

10 Arizona ghosts, haunted spots, and creepy urban legends

By Teresa K. Traverse | LOCAL HISTORY, COMMUNITY, Teresa K. Traverse

From a ghost town outside of Flagstaff to haunted hotels throughout the state, here are 10 tales of ghosts, haunted spots, and urban legends that may keep you up at night.