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Treasurer’s office won’t release funds to Prescott Frontier Days until lawsuit resolved
The State Treasurer’s Office has agreed not to release any of the $15.3 million budget appropriation to the Prescott Frontier Days, the nonprofit running the “World’s Oldest Rodeo,” until the resolution of a lawsuit brought by two Prescott residents and the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest today.
Secure rural Arizonans’ water future now
To the members of the Arizona Legislature and the governor – we ask for your leadership on water for the State of Arizona, for all our communities.
Flowers, grasses from rain will turn deadly in wildfire season
That bumper crop of flowers and grasses from all that rain are going to turn from beautiful to deadly this coming wildfire season.
Yavapai County judge has cases reassigned after a DUI arrest
The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that all cases currently assigned to a Yavapai County Superior Court judge recently arrested on suspicion of extreme DUI will be reassigned to other judges.
Senators vote to ask voters to eliminate cities’ ability to have own charters
State senators voted Tuesday to ask voters to eliminate the ability of cities to have their own charters -- but only after its sponsor promised to narrow it to affect only Tucson and Phoenix and, pretty soon, Mesa.
Senators vote to allow voters to decide how Tucson residents elect council
State senators voted Monday to let voters across Arizona decide how Tucson residents get to elect members of their city council.
Groundwater mostly unregulated, impacts rural areas
Groundwater is one of the main water resources for most of Arizona. It is finite and mostly unregulated, especially in rural communities that solely depend on it. To change this, in 2022, the basins around Douglas and Kingman became regulated by the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR).
Fight against fentanyl continues as drug seizures rise
The Arizona border has become the nexus point for the trafficking of fentanyl into the country. Approximately 22 million fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills were seized in Arizona in 2022, according to Jodie Underwood, spokesperson for the Drug Enforcement Administration Phoenix Field Division. This accounts for more than 43% of the 50.6 million pills seized nationwide.
Committee takes initial steps towards denying students right to use preferred pronoun
State lawmakers took the first steps Wednesday to denying students the right to be referred to by a pronoun that matches their preferred gender. SB 1001, approved by the Senate Education Committee on a 4-3 party line vote, also would put into law that teachers and other school employees may refer to a student by only his or her given name or a nickname "commonly associated with the student's name [...]
Forest Service resumes cleanup of abandoned mines near Prescott after pause
Now that funds are in hand and the Mexican spotted owl’s breeding season is over, the U.S. Forest Service has resumed its abandoned-mine cleanup project east of Prescott.
Arizona students lobby as courts, Congress, fight over Oak Flat
A group of Arizona high school students and alumni in Washington last week lobbied for a bill that would block development of a copper mine proposed for Oak Flat, land that is sacred to the San Carlos Apache.
Sinema noticeably absent from campaign trail in Arizona
As Election Day approaches, Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has been noticeably absent from the campaign trail in Arizona, and candidates throughout the state are remaining largely mum on why the state’s senior senator isn’t stumping for her party’s nominees in extremely close statewide races.
