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AZ Briefing: Buckeye community expected to draw 300K residents
Read in browser AZ BriefingYOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUPSun Nov 16 2025 Good morning, Arizona. Here’s what our reporters are working on and what you should know about what’s happening across the state before you start your day.The first homebuyers in the Buckeye development of Teravalis, one of the nation’s largest new communities, have moved in.Teravalis could grow to as many as 300,000 residents with plans calling for more than 100,000 homes in the 37,000-acre developmentlocated between the White Tank Mountains and Belmont Mountain Range.More on the big new community and its grand opening.Other big stories➤ Transportation planners are wrapping up a study to ease traffic congestion around Loop 303 and U.S. 60 in Surprise before the number of cars triples.➤ Two of Arizona’s Republican congressmen have indicated they will vote for a bill to compel President Donald Trump’s administration to release federal investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein.➤ A Phoenix woman’s boyfriend and suspect in her killing told police she died after a drug-induced assault on her with a chainsaw while he tried fending off a demonic possession, court documents say.➤ Phoenix police said one of their officers was indicted by a grand jury after speeding and crashing in March. Read more about it.➤ Coconino National Forest is one of the scenic locations offering picturesque backdrops for several bucket-list hikes near Sedona. See the photos.➤ News alerts in your inbox: Don’t miss the important news of the day. Sign up for azcentral newsletter alerts to be in the know. ➤ Today, you can expect a couple of showers in the morning; otherwise, mostly cloudy and not as warm with a high near 71 degrees. Expect it to be mostly cloudy at night with a low near 56 degrees. Get the full forecast here.Hickman’s Family Farms sold A chicken sits atop signage outside the Hickman’s Family Farms store on June 23, 2023, in Tonopah.Megan Mendoza/The RepublicHickman’s Family Farms has been bought by a global egg producer based out of Brazil, ending more than 80 years of Arizona-based ownership. Here’s what we know.If you like our work, please consider becoming a subscriber.Today in historyHere are just some of the historic events on this date in the past.•On this day in 1940: New York’s “Mad Bomber” George Metesky set his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison, or Con Ed, the utility company where he worked when he was injured years earlier, then terminated and had compensation claims dismissed. He eventually planted 33 bombs over the course of 16 years, most between 1951 and 1956, of which 22 exploded, injuring 15 people.•In 1960: Actor Clark Gable, the Academy Award-winning leading man many called the “King of Hollywood,” died of a heart attack at the age of 59.•In 1973: Skylab 4 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying three astronauts who were the third and final crew of the Skylab space station. Gerald P. Carr, William Pogue and Edward Gibson spent 84 days in space on the mission, which was the record until 1977-78 when Yuri Romanenko and Georgi Grechko of the Soviet Union spent 96 days in space.•In 1973: Early in the 1973 oil crisis after the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries announced an embargo against the United States, President Richard Nixon signed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act, advancing the effort to build the 800-mile pipeline system from Prudhoe Bay in the north of the state to Valdez in the south.•In 1984: Stephanie Fae Beauclair, who had been given a baboon heart transplant in an effort to save her life, died just weeks after being born and 21 days after the transplant. Baby Fae, as she had become known, was born three weeks premature on Oct. 14 with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.•In 2020: A clinical trial found Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine to be 95.4% effective.•In 2022: NASA launched its Artemis I mission, the first to use its new Space Launch System intended to eventually bring people back to the moon. The SLS carried an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on its test flight.— William Cain, USA TODAY NetworkTOP STORIESHere’s when the storms will hit Phoenix this weekendRain and cooler temperatures were expected in Phoenix this weekend, with multiple storm systems through next week.READ MORE Sign up for breaking news alerts and get real-time updates directly to your inbox.SIGN UP NOW Get world news FREESign up to receive GlobalPost, the leading daily newsletter devoted to world news. It’s free with your subscription.GET GLOBAL NEWS FREETry our free Quick Cross!Test your best time on our miniature crossword or check out one of our other games.USA TODAY CrosswordOur premier puzzle for crossword fans.SEE ALL GAMES |
