Arizona's Morning News

On March 29th in the year 845 the Vikings invaded Paris by surrounding the city,  plundering their churches and monasteries. 

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We discuss the massive population growth in Maricopa County and how its driving up home prices. 

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Travis Laird, Vice President of Robert Half joins us to discuss why workers are hesitant to go back to the office and why they are asking for more flexibility. 

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KTAR senior reporter Jim Cross joins us to talk about Arizona's gas prices being higher than the national average and how this will affect voters during midterm elections. 

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Staged or not, Will Smith slapping Chris Rock was the best moment at the Oscars in years, says Jim Sharpe — but he's sad it took the focus off a special moment for a special actor from Arizona. 

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Jim Sharpe breaks down the storm headed towards Phoenix and what the rain season has been like this year. Phoenix is currently 2 inches behind on rainfall. Jim Cross reports that this could lead to a quicker wildfire season. 

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Retired Peoria, AZ cop Pat Shearer gave an update on what he has been doing and seeing as he helps out in Ukraine.

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With its smaller labor force, rising wages and crazy inflation (and other weirdness), Jim Sharpe's not sure if our funky economy is temporary — but he's pretty sure he knows who's not going to fix it.

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On March 25th in 1954 television was change forever when the first color T.V. was manufactured.

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A lot of economic trends were thought to be temporary but that hasn't been the case. So we are left to ask if this is our "new normal".

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