On Saturday, John McCain, the U.S. Republican senator from Arizona, a war hero and two-time presidential contender, died, writes Joan Cook.

A 92-year-old Arizona woman has been arrested and accused of fatally shooting her son who wanted to put her in an assisted living facility, authorities said Tuesday.

Nine people have died after a furious flash flood tore through a group of family and friends cooling off in a creek in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona.

The south-western US is braced for some of the worst heat it has seen in years.

The shooting of two 15-year-old girls at an Arizona high school was an apparent murder-suicide, police have said.

An Arizona grandfather has been arrested and accused of leaving his five-year-old granddaughter alone in the desert with a loaded and cocked .45-calibre handgun and the instruction to “shoot any bad guys”.

A truck’s passenger window shattered on a Phoenix motorway on Wednesday as Arizona authorities investigated a string of highway shootings that have rattled nerves and heightened fears of a possible serial shooter.

A 22-year-mother in Arizona has been arrested on charges that she drowned her two-year-old twin sons in a bathtub on Sunday, police said.

The bodies of a man and his 12-year-old grandson have been found several miles apart on a desert trail in central Arizona.

Imagine finding this while you're snorkelling.

Three men and two women have been found dead inside a US home after a shooting.

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