Arizona News

Photo by Jim Small | Arizona MirrorArizona’s Republican legislators are taking another crack at voting law changes, after the Democratic governor vetoed their recent attempt to make the state’s elections more like Florida’s.  But the [...]

Illustration via Getty ImagesMembers of the nonbinary and transgender community urged lawmakers Wednesday to vote no on a proposal that they say would lead to further violence against their community and erasure of their identities. [...]

Flags from Arizona's 22 federally recognized tribal nations line the lawn in front of the Arizona House of Representatives on Jan. 15, 2025, as part of the 30th annual Indian Nations and Tribes Legislative Day. [...]

Photo by Shauneen Miranda | States NewsroomFrom securing funding for Indian Health Services and ongoing water settlements to increasing investments in infrastructure, education and law enforcement, many Indigenous leaders and organizations are raising the alarm [...]

A protester holds up a sign opposing collaboration between local police and federal immigration officials at the state Capitol in Phoenix on Feb. 10, 2025. Republican leadership has introduced a law, called the Arizona ICE [...]

Disability rights advocates gather Feb. 26 at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix to urge Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and Republican legislative leaders to remedy a funding shortfall in the state's Division of Developmental Disabilities that [...]

Photo via Getty ImagesFor more than a year, Arizona’s elected leaders have been making big promises to address the state’s unclear water future. But with ample disagreement over what that should look like, scant legislative [...]

A person pushes a cage full of Maricopa County mail ballot envelopes at Runbeck Election Services during the March 2024 presidential preference election. Runbeck could provide some, but not all, of the security features that [...]

Immigrant rights advocates rally at the Arizona state Capitol on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, to protest a Tucson Democrat’s decision to back a border security funding bill. Rep. Kevin Volk, who represents a historically GOP [...]

Gov. Katie Hobbs at Intel's Chandler plant, where President Joe Biden announced an $8.5 billion grant to help the company expand its chipmaking capacity there. (Photo by Sam Ballesteros/Cronkite News)Gov. Katie Hobbs has created a [...]

Illustration by Moor Studio | Getty ImagesTwo Republican state lawmakers are set to speak at a convention for a fringe conspiracy theory that claims extraterrestrials are helping shape national and global policy.  Sen. Mark Finchem, [...]

Photo by University of ArizonaAs guidelines aimed at dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are being implented at educational institutions nationwide in response to policies enacted by President Donald Trump, concerns about their impact on [...]

Migrants wait in line near El Paso, Texas to board a transport bus on May 10, 2023. Photo by Corrie Boudreaux for Source New MexicoThe Trump administration’s decision to rip federal funding away from organizations [...]

Photo by Abadonian | iStock/Getty Images PlusA proposal that would give local law enforcement immunity when shooting down drones near the southern border passed out of committee Thursday despite concerns that it gives broad immunity [...]

Photo via Getty ImagesA Republican measure that would waive certain state regulations to allow large industrial energy users like data centers build small nuclear reactors in rural Arizona cleared its first hurdle this week.  House [...]

A website advertising a forum of northern Arizona mayors. The forum is being hosted by two companies owned by disgraced former legislator David Stringer, who resigned after child sex charges he faced decades ago resurfaced [...]

Red Butte Mountain, a sacred site for the Havasupai people, as seen from Forest Service Road 305ab, the start of the haul route from Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine to the White Mesa Mill in Blanding, [...]

Vara Prasad, left, an agronomy professor at Kansas State University, visits an agricultural technology park in Cambodia. Many state universities rely on research grants from USAID, an agency the Trump administration is trying to dismantle. [...]

Navajo Nation Executive Director Stephen Etsitty holds a radiation monitor device up to the back of one of the two uranium ore haul trucks from Pinyon Plaine Mine on Feb. 12, 2024. Before the trucks [...]

A poll worker at the Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix during the November presidential election. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled in September that voters affected by the state's problem tracking voter citizenship would be [...]

Photo via Getty ImagesThe Arizona Department of Agriculture announced Friday that bird flu had been detected in milk produced by dairy cows in Arizona.  Arizona is one of approximately 12 states that have had confirmed [...]

Cathi Herrod in 2025. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0Cathi Herrod, who led the decades-long fight to enact dozens of anti-abortion laws in Arizona, left her post as president of the Center for [...]

Democratic lawmakers and a progressive advocacy organization are calling on Republicans to support their bills aimed at housing affordability and health care affordability, vowing to spend $300,000 on a campaign to convince voters to support [...]

The Arizona Court of Appeals reversed an earlier decision to award attorney fees to a former Democratic state lawmaker who was sued by GOP elected officials who said she had defamed them by connecting them [...]

Phoenix Children’s Hospital has secretly ended part of its gender-affirming care program for minors under 19 years old, complying with President Trump’s executive order that was signed last week. Two parents confirmed that they were [...]