(Photo by Jim Small/Arizona Mirror)Proponents of Proposition 144 say that it will make Arizona’s elections faster and more secure, but critics say it’s unlikely to significantly speed up results — [...]
(Photo by Jim Small/Arizona Mirror)The director of the Clean Elections Commission told the Arizona Supreme Court that two Green Party candidates being investigated for campaign finance fraud are working to [...]
President Donald Trump points into the crowd after headlining a midterms rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, on Oct. 5, 2026, at the Nebraska State Fairgrounds, with thousands in attendance. (Photo [...]
Urban hospitals are closing at roughly the same rate as rural ones, and the shuttered hospitals are more likely to have served communities with high poverty rates and fewer transportation [...]
An Arizona voter carries her ballot to a polling place to vote in the 2018 primary election in Phoenix. Faith leaders are urging peace at the polls and respect for [...]
Photo via FacebookThe Arizona Corporation Commission voted unanimously this week to redact parts of a public meeting, including the transcript and the video recording, to remove references to a former [...]
Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier are asking the Arizona Supreme Court to halt a Clean Elections investigation into whether they received millions of dollars in public campaign funding because of [...]
Security stands outside ICE headquarters during a Congressional Hispanic Caucus rally on Feb. 3, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of [...]
Voters head into a polling site at Grand Park in Westfield, Indiana, on Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (Photo by Tom Davies/Indiana Capital Chronicle)As President Donald Trump refuses to rule out [...]
President Donald Trump speaks at the Mitchell Center at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama on Oct. 2, 2026, as he campaigns in GOP-leaning states ahead of the [...]
(Photo by Getty Images)State auditors found multiple problems with the Arizona Department of Housing’s policies and training, and found that it took the department months in some cases to notify [...]
Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller speaks outside the Arizona Senate on Jan. 12, 2026, about upcoming legislation to criminalize interference with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Protesters shouted him down, [...]
(Illustration by iStock / Getty Images Plus)Democrats and clean energy advocates are hoping rising electricity bills fuel voter turnout in November and drive voters to reject the two Republicans seeking [...]
Barbed wire lines a fence outside of the Delaney Hall Detention Facility, where the Trump administration is housing detained immigrants, in August in Newark, N.J. The U.S. Supreme Court will [...]
A voter takes an "I Voted" sticker at the Brackett Recreation Center in Minneapolis on Nov. 2, 2021. (Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer)A federal grand jury indicted 10 noncitizens for [...]
The Arizona Green Party says that gubernatorial hopeful Risa Lombardo is a "sham candidate" who is being propped up by Republicans. So far, she's spent most of her public campaign [...]
Axon brought a mobile tactical simulator to the Arizona Capitol on March 4, 2025, as part of its effort to back legislation that would stop a ballot referendum in Scottsdale [...]
(Photo by Anne-Marie Caruso/New Jersey Monitor)Attorney General Kris Mayes wants an appeals court to dissolve a trial court judge’s order that blocked her from prosecuting online prediction market company Kalshi [...]
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joined Democrats and abortion rights advocates for a press briefing at the Arizona Capitol on April 9, 2024, shortly after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled [...]
Photo by iStock / Getty Images PlusDuring my time in the Air Force, fighter pilots were the golden boys. In combat, they were the tip of the spear. But they [...]
Dr. Heidi Overton speaks at her Senate confirmation hearing on Sept. 24, 2026 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Overton, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Food and [...]
A sign directing voters to a polling location on the Navajo Nation on July 30, 2024. (Photo by Shondiin Silversmith/Arizona Mirror)Cierra Tsosie is preparing to vote for the first time [...]
Brenda Gilliam-Miller, Dawn Jackson and her daughter, Simona Jackson, light candles to remember loved ones lost to homicide during a press conference for Arizonans for Effective Public Safety at the [...]
(Photo via iStock/Getty Images Plus)WASHINGTON — Diesel prices hit a record average of $6.51 a gallon Monday, and some in President Donald Trump’s own party are breaking their support for [...]
Rep. Andy Biggs debates with his Republican opponents in the 2026 AZ Clean Elections governor primary debate at Sneaky Big Studios in Scottsdale on June 17, 2026. Pool photo by [...]
(Photo by Jim Small/Arizona Mirror)Destroying a public record after a member of the public requests it should land government agencies in legal trouble, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled today. Matthew [...]
An airplane sits on the tarmac at Mesa Gateway Airport on the evening of April 9, 2026, outside of the Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center, an ICE facility where detainees [...]
Federal immigration officers were at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on March 23, 2026 to help with airport security as a partial governemnt shutdown continued. (Photo by Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder)WASHINGTON [...]
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico speaks during a campaign rally in Laredo, Texas, on July 14, 2026. A major elections forecaster moved the Texas Senate race, in which Talarico [...]
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel, left, greets Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley as Patel arrives to testify during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office [...]
Voting at the Portland Expo in Maine’s June 9, 2026 primary election. (Photo by Jim Neuger/Maine Morning Star)WASHINGTON — Department of Homeland Security officers may have broken state laws carrying [...]
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 13, 2026. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump tried to maintain power following his loss in the 2020 [...]
(Photo by Jim Small/Arizona Mirror)Two candidates facing civil and criminal investigations into whether they fraudulently qualified for millions in public campaign funding want a court to block the Clean Elections [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs on April 9, 2024, at a press briefing reacting to the Arizona Supreme Court's ruling that an 1864 near-total abortion ban is enforceable. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona [...]
State Rep. Justin Wilmeth, R-Phoenix, in June 2024. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)Republican state Rep. Justin Wilmeth is running for reelection on his record of bolstering Arizona’s economy, even [...]
U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari speaks to reporters on Sept. 9, 2026, following an oversight visit at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Phoenix, as Deacon Joe Stickney with [...]
An explosion of data center facilities, including the one pictured here in northeast Oregon on May 18 have been built along the Columbia River Gorge during the last few years. [...]
Disability rights advocates gather Feb. 26, 2025, at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix to urge Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and Republican legislative leaders to remedy a funding shortfall in the [...]
Election workers sort ballots at Contra Costa County's election operations facility on May 27, 2026 in Martinez, California. (Photo by Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images)A U.S. Postal Service rule restricting mail-in voting, [...]
Photo via Getty ImagesThe Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday declined to make its ruling last month that kicked a GOP measure to protect school vouchers off the ballot into binding [...]
Olympian David Hearn, center left, walks out of District of Columbia Superior Court with his attorneys after a hearing on Sept. 4, 2026. (Photo by Ariana Figueora/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — A [...]
Karen Kost took part in the North Dakota primary election early voting available June 3, 2026, at City Hall in Casselton, North Dakota. (Photo by Dan Koeck/North Dakota Monitor)WASHINGTON — [...]
A Utah County election worker picks up mailed ballots from the United States Postal Service office on Oct. 26, 2020 in Provo, Utah. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images)President Donald Trump’s [...]
A U.S. Postal Service whistleblower in a report published Sept. 1, 2026, alleged that USPS rushed the development of electronic tools to comply with a Trump administration policy placing new [...]
(Photo by Jim Small/Arizona Mirror)A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday declined the Trump administration’s request to overturn the temporary restraining order she signed last week that blocks the U.S. Postal [...]
A voter drops off a ballot on primary Election Day at the Salt Lake County Government Center on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. (Photo by Marco Lozzi for Utah News Dispatch)WASHINGTON [...]
Photo by Devon Christopher Adams (modified) | Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0More than one in every eight Arizonans identify as LGBTQ, making up a demographic group that may prove consequential in the [...]
(Photo by Anne-Marie Caruso/New Jersey Monitor)A federal judge’s order blocking Arizona from prosecuting online prediction market company Kalshi for violating the state’s gambling laws is living on borrowed time after [...]
Ahead of the May 2024 primary, a drop box for mail-in ballots sits outside the Shelby County Courthouse Annex in Shelbyville, Kentucky. (Photo by McKenna Horsley/Kentucky Lantern)WASHINGTON — The U.S. [...]
Quitobaquito Springs sits right along the border and is directly in the path of President Donald Trump's border wall. A new lawsuit aims to stop that construction because the oasis [...]