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Legislature elects new Senate and House leaders
The Arizona Legislature has convened its 2017 session and the House and Senate have formally elected new leaders for the session.
Republicans, not Latinos, doomed Arpaio
The fall of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio didn’t result from a surge of Latino voters, despite the opposition he drew from the Hispanic community over his immigration enforcement tactics.
Arizona’s electors unanimously vote for Trump
About 150 protesters gathered outside the Arizona Capitol as the state's 11 Electoral College voters are set to formally cast ballots for Republican Donald Trump.
2017 Legislature: Newcomers have varied backgrounds, little political experience
The 2016 election re-shuffled the deck at the Capitol, and when the Legislature reconvenes in January it will be full of new faces.
House committee assignments announced as Mesnard revives budget subcommittee
In a departure from the much-bemoaned recent norm at the Capitol of a top-down approach to crafting the state budget, incoming House speaker J.D. Mesnard announced he was reviving budget subcommittees in 2017.
A look at Arizona election winners, losers
Election Day in Arizona saw Republicans winning the presidential vote despite Democratic efforts to tap into the state's growing demographic shift, a GOP sweep of statewide utility regulator races, and a sturdy defense of a swing congressional district in southern Arizona.
Democrats, Clinton counting on Latinos to win Arizona
Sara Morales became an American citizen in 2010 and has voted in every election since. This year, the Phoenix resident will be casting a ballot for Hillary Clinton, joining the tens of thousands of Latinos who Democrats hope will swing the traditionally conservative state in their direction.
Utah vote splinters as anti-Trump sentiment spreads
The unity of Republican voters in heavily conservative Utah has been splintered by Donald Trumpai??i??s crude behavior and volatile campaign, creating an unprecedented sense of uncertainty in a must-win state for the GOP candidate.
Nearly 120,000 new Arizona voters in past 3 weeks
Nearly 120,000 new Arizona voters signed up to participate in the November general election in the past three weeks.
GOP Corp Comm candidates say ‘yes’ to human role in global warming
All three Republican candidates for the Arizona Corporation Commission today said man-made global warming was real, two of them contradicting their earlier answers on the topic.
The rundown: Here’s who won and lost the primary races
Challengers dealt incumbents a few major upsets in Tuesday’s primary, and one of those could be the Democrats’ path to a 15-15 tie in the Arizona Senate.
