With just over two weeks to go before the election, incumbent Republican Sen. J.D. Mesnard, Democratic challenger Ajlan Kurdoglu and outside groups have already spent a combined $1.7 million, most of that from deep-pocketed national Democratic organizations intent on flipping the Arizona Legislature.

The ACLU of Arizona is going to spend nearly $1 million to inform 300,000 registered voters about the Maricopa County Attorney’s race.

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Lyons was once a firefighter. In that capacity, he said he often saw the “terrible consequences of distracted driving” – death, grief, disability and so on.

In the years since her defeat, Democrats tapped Kathy Knecht to run for House in LD21 as part of their push for the majority in that chamber. If they succeed, not only will Democrats break the Republican trifecta that has dominated state politics since the Janet Napolitano days, it’ll be the party’s first majority in the House since the 1960s.

An aide to Gov. Doug Ducey, a former top attorney for the state’s largest utility company and a former attorney at the Goldwater Institute are among 39 applicants for the chair of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission.

Arizona set a record turnout for a primary election with just over 36 percent of registered voters casting a vote, the official canvass results from the August 4 primaries show.

Anticipation around the Democratic primary for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office race was shaping up to be a two-person race between Julie Gunnigle and Will Knight, but when the county uploaded early ballots at 8 p.m. on August 4, Gunnigle won by a landslide.

Democrats won't get a free seat this year on the Arizona Corporation Commission.

Juan Mendez appears to be headed for another term in the state Senate as he holds a commanding lead over a more moderate Democratic challenger in a bright blue Tempe district.