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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WASHINGTON — Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham on Friday released the text of the budget resolution that will lay the groundwork for Republicans in Congress to overhaul border security, [...]
WASHINGTON — Democratic attorneys general from throughout the country on Friday asked a federal judge to enforce a temporary restraining order he issued late last month, alleging the Trump administration [...]
WASHINGTON — Less than three weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump and those working under his auspices — most prominently billionaire Elon Musk — are making no apologies [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. senators from both political parties wrote to the acting Social Security commissioner on Thursday, expressing concern it might take the agency more than a year to implement [...]
WASHINGTON — Thousands gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s bulldozing of U.S. disaster aid and critical medical care in war-torn and poverty-stricken regions around the globe. [...]
WASHINGTON — Former Hawaii U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard got a step further on Tuesday in her bid to serve as the next director of national intelligence after a U.S. Senate panel [...]
Most of the bodies of the 67 people killed when their plane plunged into the frigid, murky waters of the Potomac River had not yet been recovered when President Trump [...]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to implement tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China on Saturday, potentially starting off a trade war that would likely lead to price increases on [...]
On the same day that a white supremacy aligned university club encouraged students to report their classmates to ICE, hundreds of Arizona State University Sun Devils responded by marching in [...]
WASHINGTON — A federal district judge issued a temporary restraining order on Friday, blocking the Trump administration from moving forward with a proposed spending freeze on grants and loans. Chief [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. senators said Thursday they are investigating the deadly midair collision between a commercial jet carrying 64 people and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on approach to Ronald [...]
Last year, Republican lawmakers were told that their proposal to require life sentences for anyone convicted of child sex trafficking had a problem: Its provisions could be applied to the [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Tuesday addressed some of her staff, promising to provide resources and support as the agency fulfills its duties, one of [...]
Holding signs that read, “Honor the Treaty of 1868. Reauthorize RECA. Funding for Health Care” and “Speaker Johnson, pass RECA before we die,” a group of Diné people marched to [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice didn’t give Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes its investigation on President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election before Trump [...]
The Trump administration has revived a border security policy that legal experts say paves the way for mass deportations — without even a court hearing — and threatens to put [...]
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is giving immigration officers an expanded authority to rapidly deport immigrants, including people the Biden administration temporarily allowed into the country under parole authority, according [...]
In most Arizona counties, voters can show up at any polling location to cast their ballot on Election Day. But some Republican lawmakers want to do away with that system [...]
A bill that would require the governor to submit to televised questioning from lawmakers each month took its first step toward becoming law on Wednesday. The proposal would mandate that [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs’ budget proposal aims to reduce spending on private school vouchers — which her staff described as an “entitlement” for wealthy Arizonans. However, her 2026 fiscal year budget, [...]
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed Republicans Thursday for blocking a last-ditch effort to extend TikTok’s lifespan in the U.S. — even as the video platform’s CEO is [...]
Arizona law requires that nearly 2,000 schools create and implement detailed plans to help staff, students and first responders be prepared for emergencies. But there is just a single employee [...]
In her State of the State address Monday, Gov. Katie Hobbs said that securing Arizona’s water future is essential to preserving the state’s way of life — including providing reliable [...]
The far-right Arizona Freedom Caucus set a contentious tone for the start of the new legislative session, vowing to unseat the state’s three top Democrats in the next election and [...]
The state’s adult-use marijuana sales fell to $73.1 million in November, the lowest monthly total since September and a sign of continuing market contraction. Medical marijuana sales also declined, reaching [...]
Republicans in the Arizona House have created a new committee that will take a comprehensive look at how the state’s elections are run, another sign that the state’s debate over [...]