The Local Loop is an independent news aggregation site. We track dozens of established news sources — local, national, and international — and bring together the stories they are covering in one place, with a special focus on local news for the Phoenix, Arizona area.
How our stories are made
Each story on this site is a summary of reporting published by multiple independent news organizations. We use automated tools, including AI assistance, to identify when several outlets are covering the same event and to draft a neutral overview of what they report. Every story links to all of its original sources, and we encourage readers to click through and read the original reporting.
We only publish a story when at least two independent sources are covering it, and our summaries aim to be neutral: where sources disagree on facts or framing, we describe the disagreement rather than picking a side.
What we are not
We are not an original-reporting newsroom, and we don’t claim to be. The journalists at the outlets we link to do the reporting; our job is to help you see, at a glance, what is being covered and by whom.
Corrections
If you spot an error in one of our summaries, please email robert.nickels26@gmail.com and we will review and correct it promptly.
Photography
Featured images are illustrative stock photography provided by Unsplash and credited to their photographers on each story. They depict the general subject matter of a story, not the specific event, people, or places described.