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Arizona Highways magazine holiday cover from the 1950s
12/07/2025

PODCAST: Arizona Highways magazine celebrates its centennial, the holidays and more

Editor Robert Stieve visits with host Doug Nintzel about Arizona Highways magazine's ongoing centennial celebration, how the holiday edition has become annual treasure and even how the magazine is looking toward next year's Route 66 centennial.
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MVD Community Connections Thanksgiving drives
12/01/2025

MVD employees step up to help during the Thanksgiving holiday

As part of the MVD Community Connections efforts, several office locations across the state organized food donation drives to help out in their communities this Thanksgiving.
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A metal footbridge spans a rocky canyon with steep cliffs and sparse vegetation under a bright sky.
11/30/2025

Fish Creek Bridge: A small piece of nearly timeless history

A small bridge on a historic road is nearly timeless.
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Road sign reads: Next 11 miles, Variable Speed Limit Corridor, with a white truck in the background.
06/18/2020

New for Monsoon 2020: When dust kicks up, speed limit goes down

Interstate 10 drivers between Eloy and Picacho Peak should expect something very different this summer when storms hit: reduced speed limits, speed feedback signs and new overhead boards that display urgent safety messages.
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Monsoon haboob.
06/17/2020

ADOT Kids: Monsoon season is here!

In addition to learning more about monsoon season safety, we're encouraging you to create your own sign to keep people from driving into a dangerous dust storm.
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Historical marker on State Route 82 in Southern Arizona
06/16/2020

SR 82 stop offers two-for-one history lessons

A State Route 82 pullout east of Nogales offers two nods to Arizona history in one spot.
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Flooded desert landscape with muddy water covering the ground and partially submerging fence posts and vegetation, with mountains visible in the distance.
06/15/2020

With monsoon season here, is your vehicle rainstorm-ready?

The summer monsoon season is at hand. If you get caught in a heavy downpour, do you know what to do?
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06/14/2020

Where in AZ??

Can you identify this well-known Arizona location?
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Several semi-trucks parked on a wide concrete lot under a partly cloudy sky with mountains in the distance.
06/12/2020

Quick turnaround for commercial vehicle parking at rest areas

We've moved into action quickly to expand the number of commercial parking spaces at two rest area along I-40.
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06/11/2020

Throwback Thursday: Hearing from you

The highway may never have been built, the spirit behind this public meeting in 1960s Tucson lives on.
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A large, weathered barn with wooden doors and windows, featuring a partially open entrance and faded green metal siding. Shrubs and dirt surround the structure.
06/10/2020

Looking back to when Grand Canyon aviation began

On this day 92 years ago, the first airport at the Grand Canyon took flight.
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06/09/2020

Lane adjustments on I-10 already improving traffic, safety

It's not often in life that you get immediate results. A lot of things worth doing take time and patience to bear any fruit. That's why it was gratifying when we saw a noticeable change in traffic flow and safety after crews completed a...
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06/08/2020

Adopt a Highway mile honors a father, son and police officer

If you drive through the Hopi Reservation, you’ll notice an Adopt a Highway sign that reads “BC One of a Kind” about 11 miles south of Second Mesa. It honors Branyon Rebeau Claw Sr., the oldest son of Madeline Sahneyah, also known as “BC.”...
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