A Republican bill that would allow individuals with concealed carry weapon permits to bring their firearms onto college campuses passed an initial hurdle, though it’s all but certain the proposal [...]
Faced with the certainty of Gov. Katie Hobbs’ veto, GOP lawmakers are hoping to circumvent her entirely by sending a proposal to voters in November that would restrict how teachers [...]
In the weeks following the Colorado Supreme Court’s historic 4-3 decision barring former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot under a Civil War-era insurrection clause, the case was formally [...]
If you want to see what happens when a dog catches a car, look at Republicans in Congress. For decades, the GOP has increasingly been focused on immigration, spurred by [...]
Senate Republicans are, again, attempting to take power away from the State Bar of Arizona and the state Supreme Court, the entities that have disciplined several attorneys over the past [...]
Sen. Janae Shamp, R-Surprise, discusses her bill to mandate detransition care in Phoenix, Ariz. on Feb. 1, 2024. Behind her stands Chloe Cole, a detransition activist from California. Photo by [...]
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joined nearly two dozen other Democratic attorneys general to push back on the effort to eliminate the DACA program, warning a federal court that doing [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has been inundated with dozens of organizations seeking to weigh in on the future of the abortion pill by filing “friend of the [...]
Republican lawmakers have proposed a series of bills this year aimed at trying to regulate online pornographic content that critics say would run afoul of the constitutional free speech protections. [...]
Minutes before the Arizona House of Representatives was set to vote on expelling her from the chamber in the wake of an ethics probe that found she engaged in “disorderly [...]
The Republicans in charge of the Arizona Department of Education and the state Senate say that the state’s school voucher program saves taxpayers money, and that any statements to the [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on March 26 in the case that could significantly curtail access to a prescription drug used for both abortions and [...]
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated each year on January 27 in conjunction with the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. In 1945, as Soviet troops began closing [...]
Arizona voters likely won’t be deciding this fall whether to ban the use of red light and photo radar cameras after state senators on Monday rejected a plan to send [...]
A bipartisan resolution proposed by Arizona lawmakers would see the state replacing the statue of a Jesuit explorer who helped Europeans settle in Arizona that’s currently on display in Statuary [...]
A fundamental respect for the dignity of all people is the driving force behind legislation ensuring that pregnant prisoners are not forced to schedule an induction of labor before their [...]
Fifty-one years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to protect abortion as a fundamental constitutional right of women, but in 2022 a newly conservative bench overturned Roe v. Wade, leaving [...]
Arizona Democrats are hoping to sweep the November elections, bolstered by a reproductive rights stance that sharply contrasts attacks on abortion access from Republicans. “While Republicans are running on their [...]
WASHINGTON — Passage of a multi-billion-dollar supplemental package hinges on curbing an executive authority used to grant immigration protection, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said during a Wednesday press conference. [...]
Republican lawmakers grilled Gov. Katie Hobbs’ budget team Tuesday over her proposed budget that they have already dismissed as an “unserious mess.” Last week, Hobbs released her proposed $16 billion [...]
As we remember and reflect on the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., there are valuable lessons that should give us hope that we can overcome what [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday released her proposed $16 billion budget for the 2025 fiscal year, as well as her plan for shoring up what she estimates will be a [...]
Republicans were quick to dub Gov. Katie Hobbs’ budget proposal an “unserious mess,” pointing to her call for limiting the use of school vouchers as the chief reason why wasted [...]
The officials who run Arizona’s elections put out a blunt reminder last week: If lawmakers don’t soon change key dates related to the upcoming presidential election, military voters may get [...]
Arizona voters have long relied on unstaffed ballot drop boxes to conveniently cast their ballots, but challenges to their use persist and a new state rulebook does little to clarify [...]
Like so many other longtime Arizonans, searching out the latest Steve Benson cartoon has been a part of my regular routine. Since the 1980s, he’s been skewering Arizona leaders and [...]
Marti Gerdes remembers living in Prescott as a kid and, every winter, he and his family would make snow ice cream, mixing milk and sugar with snow. This story is [...]
WASHINGTON — On the cusp of a 2024 election season like none other in U.S. history, former President Donald Trump’s legal and political worlds are set to converge. Trump’s lawyers [...]
After learning that an upcoming mission to the moon will include cargo holding cremated human remains, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation [...]
The shocking events of Jan. 6, 2021, signaled a major break from the nonviolent rallies that categorized most major protests over the past few decades. What set Jan. 6 apart [...]
WASHINGTON — The 2024 battle for control of Congress is underway in the states, accompanying the accelerating race for the presidency. Republicans are preparing to funnel money and staff into [...]
Lawmakers grilled the new head of the Arizona Department of Child Safety Wednesday during a lengthy debate over an audit of the agency as lawmakers ultimately decided to recommend reauthorizing [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs is setting her sights on the state’s private school voucher program, announcing a plan Tuesday to reform the program’s oversight and eligibility, less than a week out [...]
Listen to this article Rebuffed in prior legal attempts to overturn his loss in the race for attorney general, Abe Hamadeh now is trying to get a judge to declare [...]
Listen to this article An attorney for a failed candidate challenging the 2022 election results used his unrelated position as chairman of a legislative panel to elicit testimony Thursday from [...]
The head of the Arizona state Senate is taking Gov. Katie Hobbs to court over her decision to appoint agency leaders without the approval of lawmakers. On Tuesday, Senate President [...]
The Hispanic middle class has grown faster than the white or Black middle class in the past decade and has reached near-parity with the white middle class in seven states, [...]
Two Republican state lawmakers questioned former Arizona Supreme Court Justice Ruth McGregor on Thursday about an independent investigation she did into Maricopa County’s ballot printer issues during the 2022 general [...]
The state agency at the center of Arizona’s ongoing behavioral health crisis knew its proposed billing reforms could trigger a surge in homelessness nearly a year before implementing the changes, [...]
SAN DIEGO — Tracy Bennett has packed up and moved her tent and possessions so many times when the city periodically clears her sidewalk encampment, she jokes she could run [...]
In Arizona, the state’s highest court is considering whether to restore a near-total abortion ban from 1864, and in the Dominican Republic, women are fighting against an all-out ban from [...]
Teen sisters Jayden and Jasmine Rogers know what drives foster kids to run away from the group homes and hospitals they’re sent to. “Maybe the streets will offer freedom from [...]
Maine’s housing authority received $35 million in 2023 — the first time in 54 years it has received a direct appropriation from the state budget — to help build more [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to quickly decide if former President Donald Trump holds immunity from federal prosecution in the case linked to his actions surrounding [...]
WASHINGTON — Congress members and office neighbors on the second floor of the Longworth House Office Building showcased their holiday spirit this season in an unofficial decorating contest. The naughty [...]
In 2024, former President Donald Trump will face some of his greatest challenges: Criminal court cases, primary opponents and constitutional challenges to his eligibility to hold the office of president [...]
WASHINGTON — Congress is staring down a funding cliff in mid-January and a second one in early February, but neither of those deadlines have inspired House and Senate leaders to [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. senators late Monday said they are closer to an agreement on changes to immigration policy in order to clear a multi-billion-dollar global security package, but any timing [...]
Nature offered the Colorado River Basin states a reprieve last winter after a heavy snowpack and generous rainfall saved the region’s two largest reservoirs from collapse. But one good year [...]
If you had to pay an extra few cents per month to help your rural Arizona neighbors, would you? That’s what northern Arizona communities and nonprofit groups are asking of the [...]