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 [...]

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 [...]