A sign objecting to Elon Musk's work to dismantle the federal government at the 50501 protest at the Arizona Capitol on Feb. 17, 2025. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona [...]
A man holds the Ukrainian and U.S. flags at a ceremony at the Holodomor Genocide Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 4, 2025, as the three-year anniversary of the Russian [...]
Photo by Jim Small | Arizona MirrorNearly eight months after the Arizona Supreme Court allowed “unborn human being” to be included in a description of the state’s abortion rights initiative, [...]
Photo by Peter Dazeley | Getty ImagesOn March 19, I served as a witness to the execution of a man named Aaron Gunches, Arizona’s first since 2022. During his time [...]
Sen. Cory Booker's 25-hour-plus speech broke a record previously held by a South Carolina senator who tried to prevent passage of the Civil Rights Act. Photo by John Partipilo | [...]
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivers remarks to staff at DHS headquarters in Washington on Jan. 28, 2025. (Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta-Pool/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — A federal judge in [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo by Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The Trump administration submitted an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday in an effort to resume the [...]
A roadside memorial sign in Sells on Feb. 17, 2024. Photo by Becky Pallack | Arizona LuminariaA critical report created to address the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People [...]
Former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has been named ambassador to Serbia. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0Arizona’s former Attorney General, Republican Mark Brnovich will be the next [...]
A sign made by an attendee at a rally in support of public lands at the Arizona Capitol on March 27, 2025. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorHunters, anglers, [...]
Border Patrol agents intercept immigrants near Eagle Pass, Texas, in August 2019. Photo by Jaime Rodriguez | U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionA political climate dominated by concern over border security [...]
Flags representing the 22 federally recognized tribes in Arizona are displayed in the rotunda of the Executive Tower. Gov. Katie Hobbs is housing the flags, which were removed from the [...]
Illustration by wildpixel | iStock / Getty Images PlusThe SAVE Act isn’t about Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility — it’s about making it harder for millions of American citizens to vote [...]
Attendees watch from the overflow room — the cafeteria of North High School in North St. Paul — the second stop in a series of “Community Impact Hearings” hosted by [...]
A young woman holds up a sign calling for an end to violence against Indigenous people on May 5, 2022 at the state Capitol. Photo by Gloria Gomez | Arizona [...]
Cochise County supervisors meet in Bisbee. The supervisors have decided not to defend the county's 2023 jail tax election, and are pursuing a settlement that may include throwing out the [...]
The Carl T. Hayden Veterans' Administration Medical Center in Phoenix. Public domain imageThe flags of Arizona’s 22 tribal nations have been removed from the Carl. T. Hayden VA Medical Center [...]
Illustration via Getty ImagesRepublican measures aimed at bolstering cryptocurrency usage in the state by deeming it “legal tender” and creating a “strategic reserve” moved forward, despite concerns over volatility and [...]
Photo by Parker Michels-Boyce | Virginia Mercury/States NewsroomAmericans are facing the highest death toll from influenza since 2018, just as more people become vulnerable because of growing vaccine skepticism taking [...]
U.S. Sens. Mark Kelly (left) and Ruben Gallego (right) speak at a Scottsdale town hall on March 17, 2025, about the prospect of GOP-backed cuts to Medicaid. Photo by Jerod [...]
Rep. Raúl Grijalva talks during the first-ever candidate forum hosted by Indivisible Tohono in Sells, Arizona, on the Tohono O’odham Nation on June 29, 2018. Photo Courtesy of Indivisible TohonoTribal [...]
Family members of Emily Pike accept hugs from community members during a prayer vigil held by the Gila River Indian Community's Victim Services Department on March 13, 2025, in Sacaton. [...]
A slide from the presentation Forest Service officials gave this week to staffers for Southwestern congressional staffers. An aide told Source NM that officials refused more than 10 times to [...]
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva in 2019 at a town hall with U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren in Tempe. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0U.S. Congressman Raúl Grijalva has died [...]
The Colorado River as it flows around Horseshoe Bend on June 23, 2021, in Page. Severe drought is causing concern and heartache among those who rely on water from the [...]
Erika Mach, the chief of external affairs for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, criticized Republican efforts to continue restricting abortion despite voters making the procedure a constitutional right during a [...]
Mel Carmine, the organizer of the Quantum Summit 2 conspiracy theory conference, in the event's opening video showing the alleged logo of a cryptocurrency in the clouds that he claims [...]
A sign that read “Justice for Emily Pike. No More MMIW” was held up during a candlelight vigil outside the Encounter AZ church in Mesa on March 6, 2025, to [...]
Photo via Getty ImagesA group of 20 attorneys general are suing the Trump administration over mass layoffs of probationary federal employees, which they claim is illegal and is causing irreparable [...]
Photo by Andrew Brookes | Getty ImagesSnitches may get stitches, but telling that to an accomplice or witness to a crime is a felony in Arizona, an appellate court ruled. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]