ARIZONA

Former Donald Trump officiate Jeff DeWit has won an election to become the next chair of the Republican Party in Arizona. He will replace current chair Kelli Ward.

“No, we don’t know how you clean this.”

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A man in Scottsdale, Arizona, is being credited as a hero after he jumped into the freezing waters of a canal to save a man and his dog who had fallen in.

Republican lawmakers who've spread election conspiracy theories and falsely claimed that the 2020 presidential outcome was rigged are overseeing legislative committees charged with setting election policy in two major battleground states.

Desalination plants can be costly and energy-intensive, and are difficult to manage in an environmentally friendly way, according to water policy experts.

A wide-open missed dunk, then a subsequent 3-pointer by the son of an NBA legend, resulted in a brutal bad beat for college basketball bettors on Thursday night.

Many Arizona Republicans are still clinging to 2020 election fraud falsehoods, refusing to acknowledge their candidates lost and resisting attempts to lessen the extreme divisions in the state.

Tribal nations hold the rights to significant portions of the Colorado River. In the increasing drought, some are showing the way to sustainability.

A woman found in a sack in the Arizona desert more than 50 years ago has been identified, authorities said this week.

It took five days to crowdfund forensic testing for a 52-year-old unsolved homicide, police said.

GOP legislators, stung by the public scrutiny of Ginni Thomas’s emails and the work of the Cyber Ninjas, retreats into secrecy.

Aren’t the small, local resorts supposed to be the ones keeping skiing affordable? Not anymore, thanks to dynamic pricing.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is creating a commission to study problems state prisons are facing, including staffing levels, mental health care, and drug treatment programs.

The Republican-controlled Iowa Legislature passed an expansive school choice proposal and Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the bill Tuesday.

The Biden administration says U.S. authorities have seen a 97% decline in illegal border crossings by migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela since Mexico began accepting those expelled under a public health order.

An Arizona judge says she will not compel Scottsdale to keep sharing water with a neighboring community. The residents of Rio Verde Foothills sued Scottsdale demanding access to water.

“Looks like I would’ve been bitten.”

Senate Democrats returned to Washington to wield their newly expanded majority this week, but the specter of potential retirements in their ranks is already raising anxiety.

A man who was shot by Kansas deputies was a suspect in a double-homicide case in Arizona. The man was fatally shot several times on Monday, along with two deputies.

Deputies in Dodge City, Kansas got into a shootout with a double homicide suspect out of Phoenix on Monday, resulting in the suspect's death and three deputies getting injured.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego says he’ll challenge independent U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona in 2024. Sinema left the Democratic Party in December and hasn't said whether she'll seek a second term. (Jan. 23) (Production: Nathan Ellgren)

A new study of Maricopa County shows how many Republican voters election deniers lost in 2022 — and how many crossed the aisle to vote for Democrats.

With under 50 days to Selection Sunday, we break down 20 teams with work to do to get into the Big Dance.

Rep. Ruben Gallego will run for Senate in Arizona, setting up a potential three-way race in the battleground state that poses a threat to independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s hold on the seat.

The city of Flagstaff, Arizona, saw its fourth highest amount of record snowfall for January at 57.9 inches. Weather officials say normal January snowfall for Flagstaff is 20 inches.

Oumar Ballo scored 16 points, Azuolas Tubelis had a double-double and No. 11 Arizona withstood a late rally to end No. 5 UCLA’s 14-game winning streak with a 58-52 victory.

The review will examine Arizona's procurement process for lethal injection drugs and gas, execution procedures, news organizations' access to executions and training of staff to carry out executions.

The Navajo Nation has rescinded a mask mandate that's been in effect since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

As part of her First 100 Days initiative, new Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has issued an executive order to have a commissioner review and make recommendations for improving the death penalty process.

Documents claim the existence of a transgender support plan which entails high school staff being coached to secretly obtain students' genders without parental notice.

Arizona’s attorney general has put a hold on executions in the state until the completion of a review of death penalty protocols ordered by the new governor due to the state’s history of mismanaging executions.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday defended her decision not to visit the southern border while on a trip to Tonopah, Arizona, telling a local reporter that Congress must act on immigration.

Gallego, an outspoken liberal Democrat, has long been critical of Sinema, who dropped her party identification as a Democrat to be an independent just after the party won the Senate last year.

Arizona's Maricopa County faced criticism as it took days to count its votes in 2022. The county's Republican recorder has a proposal to try to fix the problems he sees.

Vice President Kamala Harris and two cabinet secretaries celebrated the start of construction of a new high-capacity power transmission line between Arizona and California.

Agents confiscated more than 100 pounds of precursor chemicals, with some coming from China, during an early morning raid in Tucson, Arizona.

An armed gas station employee in Arizona shot a would-be robber early Wednesday morning in an incident he says he's trained for.

The emerging landscape points to potential decisions on the horizon about if and how to intervene in battleground contests with flawed contenders.

An Arizona toddler and her dad are getting love on social media after a photo of the two was shared to the Glendale Fire Department Facebook page.

A female body was recovered from the Arizona side of the Colorado River. The body will undergo an autopsy to determine the official cause of death.

Lower mortgage rates are giving homebuilders greater confidence in the single-family housing market.

“That pic could win an award.”

Widespread winter storms brought record snowfall to Flagstaff, Arizona, on Sunday. The Southwest expects to see continued rain and snow through Tuesday.

Developers are flooding Arizona with plans to build homes even as water supplies dwindle.

Brittney Griner made a surprise appearance at an MLK Day march in Phoenix, Arizona, on Monday, just weeks after her release from a Russian penal colony.

RIO VERDE, Ariz. — Joe McCue thought he had found a desert paradise when he bought one of the new stucco houses sprouting in the granite foothills of Rio Verde, Arizona. There were good schools, mountain views and cactus-spangled hiking trails out the back door. Then the water got cut off. Earlier this month, the community’s longtime water supplier, the neighboring city of Scottsdale, turned off the tap for Rio Verde Foothills, blaming a grinding drought that is threatening the future of the Wes

Arizona farmers with fields along the U.S.-Mexico border raised concerns on food safety after shipping containers plugging gaps in the border wall were removed.

A 77-year-old Arizona woman faces 43 counts of animal cruelty after the Mohave County Sheriff's office found her homes contained several emaciated dogs.

"I didn't want anything, other than to do what I was sent here to do," Crane told The New York Times of his stance in opposing McCarthy for speaker.

Ivon Adams, who was a caretaker for missing Oklahoma four-year-old Athena Brownfield, had been charged with murder. A search for Brownfield is continuing.

"There's a boatload of evidence in our favor," the Republican who lost in November said. There isn't.

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs wants to undo a massive expansion of a school voucher program championed last year by her GOP predecessor and other Republicans that lets students apply to use public money for private-school tuition and other education costs. In releasing its budget proposals Friday, the governor’s office said the expansion is siphoning money from underfunded public schools and would cost $1.5 billion dollars over the next decade. Hobbs staffers estimated the move would save the state $135 million next fiscal year.

With the playoff field set, the NFL announced the dates, times and broadcast schedule for next week's Super Wild Card Weekend.

Fentanyl seizures in Tuscon-area port of entry have already broken the record set in fiscal year 2022, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official.

An Arizona man was arrested on trafficking charges after a neighbor believed something was "off" between the man and the victim, according to police.

Former Gov. Doug Ducey's stunt of a shipping container wall on the border was awarded as a no-bid contract. Sure, that makes total sense.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has praised President Joe Biden’s weekend trip to the U.S.-Mexico border and his stepped-up efforts to combat illegal immigration.

Mouhamed Gueye had 24 points and 14 rebounds, and Washington State ended No. 5 Arizona’s 28-game home winning streak with a 74-61 victory.

Former Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s border barrier of shipping containers has been largely dismantled just in time for a new Democratic administration, costing tens of millions of dollars over just a few months while they were set up and taken down again.

Katie Hobbs took the oath of office to become Arizona’s 24th governor and the first Democrat to hold the office since 2009.

An Arizona court ruled abortion doctors can’t be prosecuted under a pre-statehood law that criminalizes nearly all abortions yet was barred from being enforced for decades.

A recount of votes has confirmed Democrat Kris Mayes narrowly defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh in the Arizona attorney general’s race, one of the closest elections in state history.

Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers maintained control of the NFC South, overcoming a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter and beating the Arizona Cardinals 19-16 in overtime Sunday night.

Lawyers for Arizona election officials say Republican Kari Lake didn’t offer evidence to back her claims of widespread, intentional misconduct on Election Day in challenging her loss to Democrat Katie Hobbs in the governor’s race.

Gov. Doug Ducey says Arizona will take down a makeshift wall made of shipping containers at the Mexico border, settling a lawsuit and political tussle with the federal government over trespassing on federal lands.

Since her loss in the Arizona governor’s race, Republican Kari Lake has claimed the election was stolen and promised bombshells showing she was the rightful winner.

An Arizona judge has ruled that Republican Abraham Hamadeh can proceed with his lawsuit challenging the results of the election for attorney general.

A judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit filed by the defeated Republican candidate for Arizona governor, Kari Lake, but will allow her to call witnesses in an attempt to prove that she lost because of misconduct by election officials.

The word “crisis” ended a Colorado River conference that drew representatives from Southwest U.S. states, tribes and Mexico to Las Vegas this week.

More questions than answers are surfacing at a conference in Las Vegas about what to do about projected shortages of Colorado River water relied upon by seven U.S. states, Native American tribes and Mexico.

Prosecutors allege that the leader of a small polygamous group on the Arizona-Utah border helped orchestrate the escape of eight girls he considered his wives from a group home where they were placed after authorities learned of what was happening.

Higher prices throughout much of 2022 have taken their financial toll on older adults in particular.

Former Arizona basketball coach Sean Miller escaped sanctions when a report from the Independent Accountability Resolution Process largely accepted the program’s self-imposed penalties stemming from a NCAA rules violations case that dates back to 2017.

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray has a torn ACL and will miss the remainder of the season.

Living with less water in the U.S. Southwest is the focus this week for a conference in Las Vegas about the drought-stricken and overpromised Colorado River.

The holiday break is usually a quiet time in college basketball, many of the top teams playing small-conference schools at home or taking extra time off before conference schedules start in full.

Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray was carted off the field during the team’s first offensive drive after a knee injury Monday night in Arizona’s game against the New England Patriots.

Kansas has cracked The Associated Press women’s basketball poll for the first time in nearly 10 years.

Lawson Crouse scored his second goal with 13.5 seconds left in the third period and the Arizona Coyotes returned home to end a 19-game losing streak to the Boston Bruins with a 4-3 victory.

Kari Lake, the Republican defeated in Arizona governor’s race, is formally challenging her loss to Democrat Katie Hobbs.

President Joe Biden is going to the building site for an Arizona computer chip plant to emphasize how his policies are fostering job growth in what could be a challenge to the incoming Republican House majority.

Arizona’s top officials have certified the midterm election results.

Jim Kolbe, who represented Arizona in Congress for more than two decades, has died.

A rural Arizona county has certified its midterm election results after blowing past the deadline in state law.

Only scattered challenges to certification of the midterm election have been reported in the United States, and not a single one is based on any problems with the accuracy of the results.

Republican officials in a rural Arizona county have refused to certify the 2022 election ahead of the Monday deadline despite no evidence anything was wrong with the vote count.

Kari Lake, the defeated Republican candidate for Arizona governor, has filed a public records lawsuit demanding Maricopa County hand over a variety of documents related to the election.

Oumar Ballo dominated inside with 30 points and 13 rebounds for No. 14 Arizona, which held off No. 10 Creighton 81-79 to win the Maui Invitational for the third time.

Outgoing Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey says his Republican administration will ensure an orderly transition to Democrat Katie Hobbs.

The widow of an unarmed Texas man fatally shot by police outside his suburban Phoenix hotel room in 2016 has settled her wrongful death lawsuit.

A second Republican-controlled Arizona county, Mohave, has delayed certifying results of this month's election.

The city of San Antonio was chosen Monday to host the Women’s NCAA Final Four in 2029, according to a press release from the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee.

The board overseeing a southeastern Arizona county whose Republican leaders had hoped to recount all Election Day ballots is refusing to certify the results of last week’s vote.

Lengthy vote counts in states such as Arizona or California can frustrate candidates and their supporters, but they don't indicate anything is wrong with the voting or the tallying of ballots.

Defeated Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake says she’s assembling lawyers and collecting evidence of voters who had trouble casting ballots as she considers her next move.

Arizona voters who overwhelmingly cast their ballots by mail have rejected a measure that would have would have required them to add more information to the simple signature and date they now put on the back of the return envelope.

A federal judge has granted the Biden administration a five-week delay to end far-reaching asylum restrictions, writing in upper-case letters that he was doing so “WITH GREAT RELUCTANCE.”.

Republican Blake Masters called Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly to concede in the Arizona Senate race.

U.S. authorities stopped migrants more than 230,000 times on the Mexican border in October, the third-highest month of Joe Biden’s presidency.