Early Arizona primary results show U.S. Senator Martha McSally trouncing her primary opponent, wealthy real estate investor Daniel McCarthy, in a race to decide who will replace Senator John McCain, who died in office in 2018.
Read moreThe Arizona Supreme Court upheld Phoenix’s ordinance imposing trip fees on commercial ground transportation providers like Uber and Lyft who take passengers to and from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, finding the ordinance is constitutional because paying fees to use airport property for commercial purposes is not transaction-based.
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With social distancing and extra cleaning in place to protect against the spread of Covid-19, Arizona voters went to the polls Tuesday in a primary that could help swing the U.S. Senate into the Democrats’ fold.
Read moreAlthough Arizona voters will cast ballots Tuesday in Republican and Democratic Senate primaries, the result is all but a foregone conclusion.
Read morePoder in Action and the Arizona Dream Act Coalition claim in a federal complaint that Phoenix excluded people from $25 million in federal housing assistance during the pandemic because of their immigration status, in violation of the Constitution and the Fair Housing Act.
Read moreResearchers studying underground rock samples from northern Arizona say they’ve discovered important clues to an early part of Earth’s ancient history, when the first dinosaurs and early crocodile-like reptiles roamed the planet.
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The lingering effects of school segregation, which largely ended in Arizona in the 1950s, still echo through the courts more than four decades after a Hispanic mother claimed Tucson’s school district was “tri-ethnic,” offering a very different experience for Black, Hispanic and white students.
Read moreWith the start of classes barely six weeks away, University of Arizona administrators still don’t know what the return to campus for fall semester will look like – or if it will happen at all.
Read moreArizona Governor Doug Ducey on Thursday limited indoor restaurant seating to half of normal capacity, saying the state plans to be “more prescriptive” as the economy remains largely open and the virus continues to spread.
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An Arizona judge refused to block Gov. Doug Ducey’s temporary closure of bars, gyms, water parks, and movie theaters in a ruling released Tuesday.
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Arizona Governor Doug Ducey banned gatherings of more than 50 people statewide on Monday and closed bars, gyms, theaters, and water parks for 30 days, citing a rising tide of Covid-19 cases that has stressed the state’s health care system.
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The surge of new Covid-19 cases has forced once-optimistic governors to once again shutter economies, and Wall Street’s jitters have turned to real worries about the economic ramifications.
Read moreWith his state among eight facing record numbers of Covid-19 cases daily, hospitals nearing capacity, and 1,490 people dead from the coronavirus, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey warned Thursday that the worst is yet to come.
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President Donald Trump addressed a rowdy crowd of mostly young supporters Tuesday afternoon at a rally at the heart of one of the nation’s virus hotspots, bringing his roadshow to Phoenix, Arizona, just days after the state reported 3,001 new Covid-19 cases.
Read moreArizona Governor Doug Ducey relented to pressure from several directions Wednesday when he retracted a statewide ban on local mask requirements amid a sharp spike in cases with some hospitals struggling to find beds for Covid-19 patients.
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Wildfires driven by high wind, desert heat, and low humidity forced scores of people from their homes Tuesday in southern and central Arizona, including the entire mountaintop community of Summerhaven, where hundreds of homes burned in a wildfire 17 years ago this month.
Read moreHospitals across Arizona this week activated a cooperative “surge line” to quickly transfer patients and relieve pressure on a health care system facing a spike in Covid-19 hospitalizations since a statewide stay-at-home order was lifted May 15.
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With restaurants, bars, gyms and barber shops swinging open their doors across Arizona, at least one epidemiologist is not surprised at the state’s dramatic increase in Covid-19 hospitalizations.
Read moreA wildfire forced residents in several neighborhoods to flee on the northern edge of Tucson Thursday after firefighters announced they would start a “back burn” to block the lightning-spawned Bighorn Fire from reaching the upscale homes.
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