A banner showing President Donald Trump hangs on the Department of Justice on Feb. 20, 2026. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)The Trump administration will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that [...]
ICE agents link arms outside Delaney Hall in Newark, N.J., on May 28, 2026. An ongoing hunger and labor strike at the 1,000-bed migrant detention facility reportedly involves roughly 300 [...]
The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C., home of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, on July 14, 2025. (Photo by Jacob Fischler/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — [...]
A University of Utah clinic in Salt Lake City displays a sign warning about measles last year. Utah is among the states that already has more measles cases in 2026 [...]
Rep. Justin Heap on March 2, 2023. Photo by Gage Skidmore (modified) | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap is asking a judge to hold the county’s board of [...]
The U.S. Postal Service on May 29, 2026 proposed a rule to carry out President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)The U.S. Postal [...]
Plumes of smoke rise following an explosion on March 5, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Democrats in the U.S. Senate on May 27, 2026, asked that the Congressional Budget Office provide [...]
(Screenshot via YouTube)In her first campaign ads in her reelection bid, Gov. Katie Hobbs is touting her efforts to lower costs for Arizonans and fight for working families across the [...]
Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap speaks at a Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Phoenix. On Friday, May 22, 2026, Heap referred 207 voters [...]
Carmen Cancino and her daughter Ximena Lopez at a December protest against arrests of immigrants at green card appointments in Salt Lake City. The Trump administration is threatening to force [...]
An anti-abortion group last month sued seven Utah fertility clinics, including Utah Fertility Center, claiming their disposal of embryos as part of the in vitro fertilization process violates the state’s [...]
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 [...]
Fuel options at a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, gas station on Aug. 22, 2025. The nationwide average price of a gallon of gas was $4.55 May 22, 2026, up from [...]
Gov. Spencer Cox speaks with geothermal technology executives and Western Governor's Association officials after announcing the Mountain West Geothermal Consortium. (Alixel Cabrera/Utah News Dispatch)With a newly established Mountain West Geothermal [...]
Leroy McGillHe already looked like a corpse when they opened the curtains. Pale, shaved head, eyes closed, a white sheet up to his neck Leroy McGill, 63, a convicted murderer, [...]
(Illustration by Steve Benson)Some Dreamers have had enough — enough of the broken promises and the uncertainty that comes with living in fear of deportation despite pledging allegiance to this [...]
East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, voters stand in line at an early voting location in 2022. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has suspended Louisiana’s May 16, 2026, party primary elections for [...]
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 [...]
The sun rises over Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area on July 10, 2025, in Page, Arizona. Lake Powell, a critical Colorado River reservoir, is only at a [...]
Ricky Wassenaar's Arizona inmate photoMore than a year after he confessed to stabbing and beating three men to death at a Tucson prison, the Pinal County Attorney’s Office has filed [...]
Charlotte Cravins holds artwork that she and her husband, Calvin Bell, completed with their son, Landry Bell, now 2, at a children's museum in Baton Rouge, La. The family is [...]
Save Our Schools Arizona filled the lawn outside the Arizona House of Representatives denouncing a Republican plan to expand Empowerment Scholarship Account vouchers to all Arizona students on June 22, [...]
Public school teachers gather in downtown Phoenix on May 8, 2026, to speak out against Republican legislation targeting their ability to organize and advocate for better working conditions. The GOP-backed [...]
Shipping cranes stand above container ships loaded with shipping containers at the Port of Los Angeles on Feb. 20, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. The U.S. Court of International Trade [...]
U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Phoenix, speaks on a May 6, 2026, livestream announcing the launch of the campaign to get the Free, Fair and Secure Elections Act on the November [...]
(Photo via iStock / Getty Images Plus)Arizona’s Democratic governor on Tuesday vetoed a Republican budget plan after it passed both chambers of the state legislature on party line votes, saying [...]
Photo via Getty ImagesThe Arizona Senate voted along party lines Monday to pass a package of GOP budget bills that are now headed for a veto from the state’s Democratic [...]
A U.S. appeals court has blocked one of the main methods of obtaining abortion medication for those living in states with bans. A hearing in the Louisiana case on telehealth [...]
A sign held by a teacher at a rally at the Arizona Capitol on June 5, 2024, to advocate for restrictions on the state's school voucher system, known as Empowerment [...]
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes at a press conference the day before the November 2024 presidential election discussing the 200,000 voters who will need to provide proof of citizenship [...]
A demonstrator carries a sign reading 'My Dreams Are Not Illegal' near American flags as immigrants rights supporters march in Los Angeles on March 1, 2025. The march was organized [...]
Photo via Getty ImagesTwo days after introducing their nearly $18 billion state budget, Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives pushed through a party-line vote to approve it. The Republican [...]
Image via Getty ImagesThe annual battle over the state budget is heating up again, after the Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature released their plan to cut taxes and to [...]
Photo by © Aristide Economopoulos/for NJ MonitorArizona Republicans want public schools to teach children what to do when they encounter a gun, but they refuse to support laws around safe [...]
A family waits in line to apply for asylum at the southern border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 2023. (Photo by Corrie Boudreaux for Source NM)An [...]
Federal agents draw their guns out after an incident at the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner April 25, 2026. According to reports, President Donald Trump, along with other government [...]
Attorney General Kris Mayes announces a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Apr 24, 2026 that seeks to stop the renovation of a commercial warehouse facility in Surprise, Arizona into [...]
Photo via Getty ImagesAn appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit from conservative groups that challenged how Arizona counties verify early ballot signatures and run ballot drop-boxes, among other things. Brought [...]
Emergency crews work at the site of a US-Israeli strike on a residential building that also destroyed the adjacent Rafi-Nia Synagogue on April 7, 2026, in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by [...]
Photo by Getty ImagesA judge handed a huge win to developers Tuesday when he blocked an Arizona water rule that put a stop to new housing developments in some areas [...]
Photo via Getty ImagesThe Arizona Green Party candidate for governor who used to sell MAGA merch and was a Republican Party official just days before she launched her campaign has [...]
Members of the National Guard patrol the entrance to the Union Station stop on Washington, D.C.'s Metro system, on March 25, 2026. President Donald Trump was appearing at a GOP [...]
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Georgia Democrat, in March visits a wastewater treatment facility in the city of Social Circle that the city says would be overwhelmed by plans to [...]
President Donald Trump speaks at an event in Phoenix on April 17, 2026, aimed at rallying the MAGA faithful ahead of the midterm elections. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)President Donald [...]
(Photo by Andrew Brookes/Getty Images)State Rep. Tony Rivero thinks the Arizona Legislature doesn’t have enough power to arrest people who don’t show up when lawmakers demand. The Peoria Republican wants [...]
An Iranian flag is planted in the rubble of a police station, damaged in airstrikes on March 3, 2026, in Tehran, Iran. The United States and Israel have continued the [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs delivering the 2025 State of the State Address, as Speaker of the Arizona House Steve Montenegro and State Senate President Warren Petersen watch, on Jan. 13, 2025. [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs in January 2026. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)Gov. Katie Hobbs says she won’t sign any more bills until Arizona’s Republican legislative leaders reveal their budget plan. [...]
Ruben Gallego at an Aug. 9, 2024, campaign rally for Kamala Harris in Glendale. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego D-Arizona, pulled his endorsement of [...]
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, [...]