Federal investigators spent years probing the city of Phoenix and its police department before delivering blistering findings of civil rights abuses last June. Now, the Justice Department is clawing those findings back.

The Phoenix City Council has approved a budget of nearly $5 billion for services such as fire, transportation, streets and sanitation.

PHOENIX — While city leaders largely support the DOJ’s decision to close its investigation into the Phoenix Police Department and retract its previous findings of constitutional violations, some members of the community are disappointed and are still pushing for change in the police department.

The vote to increase police funding came the same day the Department of Justice announced it is ending its investigation into Phoenix police.

Arizona GOP Congressman Abe Hamadeh took a victory lap as the Trump Justice Department announced it what called politically motivated and weaponized investigations into police departments.

Phoenix Police investigate the homicide of Seth Moisoff after he was found shot at 35th Ave and Rose Garden Lane.

The Phoenix Police Department has a reputation as one of the most violent law enforcement agencies in the country. A new study of fatal police encounters data backs that up. Since 2013 ...

Hiker Hannah Moody, 31, was found dead following a search at the McDowell Sonoran Preserve in Scottsdale, Arizona.