The eastbound Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway is closed in Mesa because of a car crash on Tuesday evening. It happened just after 6 p.m. Every driver has to exit the freeway at Gilbert Road.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking at nearly two dozen crashes and traffic violations involving Waymo autonomous vehicles in use in Arizona and California.
The man who kidnapped and raped an ASU student near the Tempe campus sentenced was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Eric Todd Bell, 23, was convicted last month of five counts of sexual assault and one count of kidnapping. Bell was also required to register as a lifetime sex offender.
A newly proposed California law could make after-hour work contact illegal. The bill would require employers enact a policy giving certain workers in the state the 'right to disconnect' from all communications outside of established work hours, aside from an emergency.
Democratic lawmakers in Arizona are pushing for state law to allow candidates to use campaign money on child care. They asked Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, also a Democrat, for clarification on the law. Right now, candidates can't claim child care as a campaign expense.
Multiple wildfires are burning across the state and in Pinal County, and fire officials say they have responded to more human-caused wildland fires in the last month than they did all of last year. The sheriff’s office now says they are cracking down on citations for reckless and unlawful burning.