Veterans Administration Medical Center Director Ron Johnson answers questions during a public about a new local VA medical facility at VFW Post 3103 on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019.

PHOENIX — The more than 500,000 military veterans in Arizona now have greater access to health-care options beyond those available from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The Arizona Diamondbacks are stepping up to support homeless veterans at MANA House, a transitional living center.

Between 2008 and 2017, more than 6,000 veterans died by suicide each year. And between 2017 and 2018, 19 veterans died by suicide at VA medical facilities, many of them in parking lots.

A team of volunteers spent their Saturday ahead of the Fourth of July preparing a new facility that will soon house more than ...

“There’s nothing like the VA, for me, a veteran.” The national VA health-care system has about 45,000 vacancies out of about 419,000 full-time positions.

A live-updating map of novel coronavirus cases by zip code, courtesy of ESRI/JHU. Click on an area or use the search tool to enter a zip code. Use the + and - buttons to zoom in and out on the map ...