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Politics

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Arizona

The shipping containers should be gone by the end of the week.

Border shipping containers to be removed by the end of the week

Updated: 7 hours ago
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By Michael Raimondi
DEMA officials say the containers are being transported to state facilities in Yuma and Tucson until a “plan for them is determined.”

Politics

The Arizona House bill, if passed, would allow pregnant women to use the HOV lane if they...

Arizona House bill would allow pregnant drivers to use HOV lane

Updated: 9 hours ago
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By Kit Silavong and Alexis Dominguez
The bill defines pregnant women as two people and would allow them unrestricted access to HOV lanes.

Politics

For about an hour, lawmakers listened to comments from both sides on HB 2458.A

Arizona House committee passes anti-critical race theory bill along party lines

Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 7:38 PM MST
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By Dani Birzer and David Baker
The measure passed along party lines.

Politics

Fontes claims Lake broke a law and could face a felony by posting pictures of sixteen voter...

Fontes asking for investigation into Lake’s tweets sharing voter signatures

Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 5:23 PM MST
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By Alexis Cortez
Lake posted side-by-side photos comparing the signatures, alleging nearly 40,000 ballots were counted with signatures that didn’t match.

Politics

GOP lawmakers pushing “election integrity” bills

Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 5:55 PM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff
A variety of GOP-led election bills have been presented at the Arizona State Senate. One would end early voting.

Politics

Senator Sinema reintroduces social media focused anti-cartel bill

Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 2:32 PM MST
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By Dani Birzer
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has reintroduced her Combating Cartels on Social Media Act of 2022.

Politics

Gallego holds first events of Arizona Senate campaign

Updated: Jan. 29, 2023 at 9:53 AM MST
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By The Associated Press
Rep. Gallego is challenging current Senator Kyrsten Sinema in 2024.

Politics

Arizona Republicans pick former Trump official to lead party

Updated: Jan. 29, 2023 at 8:21 AM MST
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By The Associated Press
With GOP Chair Kelli Ward out, the next candidate rising to the opportunity is Jeff DeWit, former state treasurer with ties to the Trump campaign.

Politics

Arizona Republicans set to decide on party chair, future this weekend with key votes

Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 8:06 PM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff
Some of the issues include the possibility of censuring the Republican-controlled Maricopa County Board of Supervisors for certifying the 2020 and 2022 elections and demanding a “do-over” of last year’s elections.

Arizona

Arizona bill would charge fentanyl dealers with first-degree murder for overdose deaths

Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 7:58 PM MST
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By Briana Whitney
Some say the bill may actually criminalize the wrong people and be difficult to prove intent.
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Politics

Arizona GOP lawmakers vote to change rules on keeping emails, texts

Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 7:51 PM MST
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By Jason Barry
Republican leaders insist the new policy strikes a balance between disclosure and privacy and was badly needed to replace their old retention policy for emails and texts.

Politics

Arizona Democratic party preparing to elect new leader as race narrows

Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 6:14 PM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff
The race is down to two candidates, Steve Gallardo and Yolanda Bejarano.

Politics

Lawmakers call for investigation against gun company that they say is marketing to kids

Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 4:32 PM MST
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By Jamie Bittner
The Senators believe there is little difference between the JR-15 and an AR-15.

Education

State superintendent cancels educator seminars on social emotional learning, racial trauma

Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 6:40 PM MST
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By Emma Lockhart
An Arizona Department of Education spokesman said those topics had nothing to do with “core academics.”

Politics

Gov. Hobbs creates committee to study problems at Arizona prisons

Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 2:05 PM MST
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By Dani Birzer and Jacques Billeaud
The commission's goal is to gather information about the state’s prison system and make improvements.

Politics

‘Life at conception’ act reintroduced in Congress as Republicans control the House

Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 1:56 PM MST
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By Jamie Bittner
“It’s an obvious fact," says Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.)

Politics

Cochise County elections director resigns, reports say

Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 12:25 PM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff
A letter obtained by the Washington Post cited an "outrageous and physically and emotionally threatening” working atmosphere as reasons for leaving.

Arizona

Proposed Arizona bill supports psychedelic mushroom research

Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 9:10 PM MST
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By Elliott Polakoff
The bill seeks to provide $30 million to help learn more about how mushrooms can potentially assist with conditions such as PTSD, depression, and anxiety.

Politics

Rep. Ruben Gallego becomes first major candidate to challenge Sinema in Senate race

Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 5:51 PM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff
A video announcement was posted early Monday morning.

Politics

Gov. Hobbs establishes death penalty review panel; all executions paused

Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 6:48 PM MST
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By Kit Silavong and Briana Whitney
The commissioner will review and provide transparency on how Arizona gets its chemicals for lethal injection and gas chamber, execution protocols and staffing, including how they are trained and their level of experience.

Politics

CBS News: Arizona congressman Ruben Gallego to challenge Sinema in Senate run

Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 2:33 PM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff
An official announcement could come as early as Monday.

Politics

VP Kamala Harris highlights clean energy project in Tonopah, skips border

Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 7:23 PM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff and The Associated Press
Harris also highlighted challenges for wind and solar energy and called out members of Congress regarding the border.

Politics

New bill would eliminate food tax across Arizona but faces opposition

Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 5:51 PM MST
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By Jason Barry
Critics say eliminating the tax would hurt revenue for public safety, libraries and more.

Politics

Republicans push abortion restrictions as March for Life rally comes to Washington D.C.

Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 5:27 PM MST
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By Jamie Bittner
Days before the March for Life rally, the House GOP advanced a measure called the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.”

Politics

Rep. Greg Stanton says he won’t run for U.S. Senate

Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 4:46 PM MST
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By David Baker
Stanton said he came to the decision after talking about it with his family.

Politics

ACLU says Arizona illegally obtained 145 million money transfer records

Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 8:04 PM MST
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By Peter Valencia and Michael Raimondi
According to the ACLU, the state sent “at least 140 illegal subpoenas” to obtain data.

Politics

APS revealed as top contributor to Gov. Hobbs inaugural fund with $250K donation

Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 5:33 PM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff
APS more than doubled the second-highest donation.

Arizona

Bill that lowers age limit for Arizona legislators gets bipartisan support

Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 9:51 PM MST
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By Elliott Polakoff
Arizona joins Utah and Colorado as the only states where residents must be at least 25 to run for the Senate or House.

Politics

Gov. Hobbs’ proposed budget would roll back school voucher program

Updated: Jan. 13, 2023 at 4:42 PM MST
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By The Associated Press
Hobbs isn’t proposing doing away with all vouchers but wants to return the voucher program to what it was before the expansion

Politics

Proposed bill would allow older teens to run for Arizona legislature

Updated: Jan. 13, 2023 at 3:39 PM MST
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By Kit Silavong
The bill has bipartisan support in both the state house of representatives and the state senate.

Politics

Lawmakers introduce controversial bill to repeal right-to-work law in Arizona

Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 8:11 PM MST
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By Briana Whitney
Democrats hope Republicans get on board, believing this would benefit Arizonans working in all sorts of industries.

Politics

Gov. Hobbs optimistic about working with Republicans

Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 5:34 PM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff
She acknowledged it will be an uphill battle to push her priorities through a state Legislature controlled by Republicans.

Politics

Maricopa County Recorder says eliminating ‘late early ballots’ could improve elections

Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 3:48 PM MST
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By Kit Silavong
The proposals come after a contentious November election when voters and the rest of the country focused on Arizona, especially Maricopa County.

Politics

Republicans flex their new House majority with new committee chairs

Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 4:47 PM MST
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By Jamie Bittner
House Republican leadership announces new committee and conference chairs.

Politics

Buu Nygren sworn in as next Navajo Nation president

Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 2:09 PM MST
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By The Associated Press
Buu Nygren is the youngest to hold the tribal presidency and has never held office before.

Politics

Gov. Hobbs announces her first-year objectives in state of the state address

Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 5:50 PM MST
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By Kylee Cruz, AZFamily Digital News Staff and Dani Birzer
Gov. Katie Hobbs delivered her first State of the State address on Monday afternoon around 2 p.m.

Arizona

Senator introduces bill to regulate drag shows, limit hours of operation in Arizona

Updated: Jan. 6, 2023 at 9:01 PM MST
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By Briana Whitney
The bill would limit hours, not allowing shows between 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. Monday-Saturday and prohibiting shows on Sundays from 1 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Politics

GOP leaders threaten to investigate Hobbs over inaugural events donations

Updated: Jan. 6, 2023 at 6:07 PM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff
So far, Hobbs, who campaigned on transparency and openness, refuses to reveal how much these organizations have contributed.

Politics

Former Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers receives Presidential honor

Updated: Jan. 6, 2023 at 2:32 PM MST
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By The Associated Press and AZFamily Digital News Staff
Last year, Bowers was awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage.

Election

Former Arizona Supreme Court chief to lead ballot printer investigation

Updated: Jan. 6, 2023 at 12:01 PM MST
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By Kit Silavong
In a joint statement sent late Friday morning, the pair announced an investigation into the printer issues that affected voters on Election Day.

Arizona

Most insurrection defendants from Arizona pleaded guilty

Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 8:45 PM MST
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By Morgan Loew
Over 950 people have been charged due to their alleged involvement, and 15 have connections to Arizona.

Politics

Questions surrounding Tom Horne’s start as superintendent of public instruction

Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 7:58 PM MST
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By Elliott Polakoff
Horne referenced a need to improve standardized testing and return to 'traditional discipline.'

Politics

Former state Senator and SB 1070 author Russell Pearce dead at 75

Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 4:41 PM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff, Dennis Welch and Jason Sillman
Pearce put Arizona in the national spotlight when his 2010 senate bill "SB 1070" was signed into law. Critics called the law racial profiling.

Politics

Katie Hobbs gives first address as governor; Mayes, Horne, Fontes give remarks

Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 12:41 PM MST
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By Jonathan J. Cooper
Hobbs assumes control of a state with a strong economy and a solid financial position, with a large budget surplus forecast for the next fiscal year.

Politics

Arizona political experts react to latest House speaker votes

Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 9:06 PM MST
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By Elliott Polakoff
The House will come back together tomorrow starting at 10 a.m. MT.

Politics

Questions raised about funding for Gov. Katie Hobbs inaugural events

Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 6:43 PM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff
Hobbs has an incomplete list of donors on the government website for her inaugural events.

Investigation

Removal of border shipping containers to cost Arizona nearly $70 million

Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 5:28 PM MST
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By Cody Lillich
It cost more than $100 million to build the make-shift wall using shipping containers in the two areas.

Politics

Sec. of State Adrian Fontes wants bipartisanship for Arizonans; aims to tackle disinformation

Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 10:14 AM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff and The Associated Press
Fontes is a former Marine and local prosecutor who staked his campaign on pledges to protect voting rights.

Politics

WATCH: Gov. Hobbs discusses future plans for state on Good Morning Arizona

Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 9:52 AM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff
Hobbs took the oath of office Monday to become Arizona’s 24th governor and the first Democrat to hold the office since 2009.

Politics

Attorney General Kris Mayes talks future of abortion in Arizona, rule of law

Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 9:31 AM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff
Attorney General Kris Mayes visited Good Morning, Arizona to talk about her expectations for the AG's office.
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