Stories You Don't Want to Miss for the week of May 18, 2026

Phoenix is planning several new investments in housing affordability and homeless services in the year ahead. A new federal proposal for sharing the Colorado River would take a new approach to managing water, forcing states to check in with each other every two years. Local officials in southern Arizona are voicing concerns about Copper World, a controversial mine proposed just south of the Tucson metro. Plus the latest education, Fronteras Desk, politics, business, and metro Phoenix news.