Jack Healy

While trying to cool brutally hot Phoenix, Roberto Guerrero and his sons endure sweltering attics, blazing rooftops and nonstop calls for help.

As much of the South bakes, Phoenix blazed past a milestone set half a century ago for consecutive days with 110-degree or higher temperatures.

Adriana Vance’s son was killed in a mass shooting at a nightclub in Colorado. As she prepared to address the killer, a reporter tried to tell her story with care.

A two-week stretch of 110-degree days sends the fire department scrambling to rescue people overcome by heat, and tests a force already accustomed to tough summers.

Arizona is used to scorching summers, but the region’s long stretch of days with 110-degree temperatures is straining patience and resources.

The Southwest has seen significantly less fire activity this year after an unusually wet winter and spring, but the danger is increasing.

Adriana Vance lost her son Raymond in a mass shooting seven months ago. The night before she would face the shooter in court, she still wasn’t sure what she would say.

A plea deal means the 23-year-old shooter will spend a lifetime in prison for a rampage at an L.G.B.T.Q. bar in Colorado Springs last year that left five people dead.

Just before they are set to face the accused shooter in court, some survivors of the Colorado mass shooting are frustrated over payouts from a fund to help them.

Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, says she is doing what she can to protect abortion rights in a state with a 15-week ban on the procedure.