May 18, 2024
Investors

Arizona investors reimbursed, fine levied

PHOENIX – Arizona has entered into a $1.5 million multistate settlement with a Florida company over a crypto investment program, regulators announced last week. TradeStation offered the crypto interest-earning program through its online platform in Arizona and other states from August 2020 to June 2022, according to the Arizona Corporation Commission. It was designed to

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Funds

Officials announce nearly $55M in federal border response funds

PHOENIX — Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema announced nearly $55 million in federal border response funds to support Arizona’s border communities. The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Shelter and Services Program (SSP) funds will assist communities managing the ongoing border crisis, according to officials. “Arizona’s local governments and nonprofits are on the

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Investment

Maricopa County to invest nearly $800,000 into affordable housing

PHOENIX — The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors agreed on Wednesday to provide an additional $796,326 to an affordable housing project in Avondale. With the additional funds coming from a community land trust, investments in the Avondale project have now surpassed $3 million. “As living expenses increase and households are forced to juggle more financial

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Property

Man dies after property engulfed in flames in northwest Arizona

PHOENIX — Detectives are investigating a residential fire that turned deadly west of Kingman, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said. Around 7 p.m. on Thursday, dispatch received calls of a fire in a neighborhood north of state Route 68 and southwest of Interstate 93. When deputies arrived, they found a residence which was fully engulfed

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Funds

SSP funds needed to aid Arizona’s border crisis

PHOENIX — Arizona’s U.S. senators have asked leaders with the Biden administration for more federal funding to help border communities. “We are facing a growing, unsustainable border crisis,” Sens. Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema said in a Dec. 15 letter addressed to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and two other officials. Federal Emergency

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