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Grand Canyon
Sep 9, 2024

The Grand Canyon main water line has broken dozens of times. Why is it getting a major fix only now?

A single pipeline at the Grand Canyon delivers water to millions of visitors annually at the South Rim. Some visitors were surprised recently when they were shut out of hotels […]

Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor
Dec 1, 2023

Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at age 93

WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation's highest court, died Friday. She was 93.

indictment, Cochise County Board of Supervisors, Peggy Judd, Tom Crosby
Nov 30, 2023

Resigning office under indictment could be poor strategy

Indicted Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby has no plans of resigning after the state grand jury charged him and his colleague Supervisor, Chairwoman Peggy Judd on two felony counts for delaying certification of the 2022 election.

Judd, Crosby, indictment, 2022 election
Nov 29, 2023

Grand jury indicts two Cochise County supervisors on felony charges tied to election canvass delays

A grand jury indicted Cochise County Supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd on felony charges for working to delay the canvass of the 2022 general election.

abortion, Hobbs, petition, voters
Nov 28, 2023

Hobbs says she believes Arizonans will support provisions of proposed constitutional right to abortion

Gov. Katie Hobbs said Tuesday she doesn't believe that some Arizonans may find provisions of a proposed constitutional right to abortion unacceptable and refuse to support it.

ethics, Dennis Prager, Charlie Kirk, ASU, Republicans
Nov 27, 2023

GOP lawmakers call to ‘gut’ university funding after controversial event at ASU

Republican lawmakers called to “gut” public university funding next session during the second meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on Freedom of Expression at Arizona’s Public Universities today.  

drought, Southwest, Native American homes
Nov 26, 2023

New climate report shows impact of drying on human health in Southwest

The arid West is getting drier, and shrinking water supplies pose a boatload of risks to human health throughout the region.

ACLU, public records, citizens, Maricopa County, ombudsman
Nov 22, 2023

Public records access is ‘stacked against the citizen’ 

Arizona public records law allows individuals to submit a public records request through any means, but public records experts point out that many agencies often require additional steps that can slow a request being fulfilled.  

hand counts, Mohave County, Mayes
Nov 20, 2023

Mohave County supervisors reject proposal to hand count ballots

The Mohave County Board of Supervisors voted against moving forward with a plan to hand count ballots, dodging assured litigation from the Attorney General’s Office.  

body cams, police, public records
Nov 17, 2023

Police redact, blur body cam footage – backlog grows    

Police records custodians spend hours combing through and blurring body camera footage to comply with privacy concerns under records law, while requestors, ranging from attorneys to journalists to civilians, can wait weeks, if not months on end to see the footage they seek.   

Sun, ethics complaint, House, Mayes
Nov 16, 2023

Sun denies acting on behalf of AG in ethics response   

A Democratic lawmaker denied allegations that she claimed to act on behalf of Attorney General Kris Mayes when she improperly interfered with a child custodial case in the summer and denied allegations of threatening Tolleson officials. 

ESAs, Toma
Nov 15, 2023

Toma probably won’t offer bill to revamp ESA program 

The Republican speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives indicated Nov. 14 that he doesn't plan to write any legislation with the goal of overhauling the state’s growing Empowerment Scholarship Account program after he chaired a House panel tasked with oversight into the program. 

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