ARIZONA

An Arizona woman was arrested after evidence of human smuggling was found in a home. Officials had received a report of a person being held for ransom.

In the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the nation, at least seven students have overdosed on possible fentanyl-laced pills in just the past month.

Arizona Democrats are vowing to fight for women’s rights after a court reinstated a law first enacted during the Civil War that bans abortion in nearly all circumstances.

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R) discusses America's growing border crisis as more illegal migrants continue to flow across the southern border.

The ruling means the state's abortion clinics will have to shut down and anyone seeking an abortion will have to go out of state.

An Arizona judge lifted the injunction on enforcing the state's abortion law, giving state Attorney General Mark Brnovich a win he touted as defending life.

The judge lifted a decades-old injunction that has long blocked enforcement of the law, on the books since before Arizona became a state, that bans nearly all abortions.

The judge lifted a decades-old injunction that has long blocked enforcement of the law on the books since before Arizona became a state that bans nearly all abortions.

Public school advocates who oppose a massive expansion of Arizona’s private school voucher system have filed enough signatures to block it from taking effect.

Secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem's rhetoric about fraud has not moderated at all since he won the Republican primary — nor has it gotten more accurate.

Customs and Border Protection officials at Arizona's Nogales Port of Entry seized over 72,000 fentanyl pills hidden in the gas tank of a vehicle crossing the border.

The transport of migrants by Republican officials has raised questions about border policies, who the migrants are and whether the states' actions are legal.

A woman received six years in prison for damaging a pipeline and setting fire to equipment in three counties. The judge said any domestic terrorism will be aggressively investigated.

On the morning of Sept. 23, residents of Chicago, Illinois, were able to catch the sun rising during "Chicagohenge," where the rising sun aligns with Chicago's street grid.

Mark Kelly, an opponent of dark money in politics, is now receiving backing from a dark money-fueled committee that works to get Latino voters to the polls in battleground states.

Rob Schneider surprised his fans by working in the Raising Cane's drive through and passing out free movie tickets. He was promoting his new movie "Daddy Daughter Trip."

A new AARP poll shows Arizona Republicans trailing in the state's Senate and gubernatorial races ahead of November's general election.

Early in-person voting starts Friday in four states and mail-in ballots have already started going out in others.

A reckoning has come for cities and farms in the desert Southwest that were built to rely on the Colorado River.

Adam Levine's cheating scandal trickled into the NFL world as teams used some of his alleged messages as memes ahead of Week 3 of the 2022 season.

Kyler Murray appears content to let things that happened in Vegas stay in Vegas.

The Fox News anchor emailed colleagues to complain about the network calling Arizona for Biden on Election Night 2020.

The cuts are another blow to a GOP candidate who has been significantly outraised by his Democratic opponent and outmatched on the airwaves.

Authorities have identified a Texas couple who died last week in the crash of a small plane in a remote area of northwestern Arizona.

The consequences of drought and efforts to funnel billions of dollars toward securing water supplies in the West are becoming larger issues in two of the most consequential races for the U.S. Senate.

Country star Tim McGraw fell into the crowd at his Arizona concert on Sunday while performing his catchy "I Like It, I Love It" song.

Brad McGinley PhotographyA bicyclist out for an early-morning ride in the Arizona desert on Saturday made a grisly discovery off the side of the road: a suitcase stuffed with a woman’s remains.That woman, since identified as 39-year-old Jennifer Beede, is now being remembered by loved ones on social media as a “great friend” who was “truly the best.”Few details surrounding Beede’s disappearance and death have been released by Arizona authorities, but police have confirmed it’s being investigated

A pilot and a passenger died in a small plane crash in the Arizona desert near the U.S.-Mexico border. The plane was on fire, which allowed a state trooper to locate the aircraft.

The transport of migrants by Republican officials has raised questions about border policies, who the migrants are and whether the states' actions are legal.

"They were really confused," a volunteer for NorCal Resist told local news regarding the migrants who were sent from a migrant center in Texas.

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin accused Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey of using migrants as pawns for their political campaigns.

The far-right forces that former Sen. John McCain successfully marginalized within the Arizona Republican Party are back and in full control, with profound implications for one of the nation’s most closely matched battlegrounds.

Facing an enormous migrant wave coming through the southern border, Republican governors are taking increasingly aggressive moves of their own to counter the crisis.

Two Arizona nurses and their off-road driver were killed Monday during a sightseeing tour in Colorado, authorizes said.

As of Friday, Republican officials in Texas and Arizona had sent 295 buses with approximately 13,000 migrants to Washington, D.C., New York and Chicago, all cities with Democratic mayors.

An Arizona man is facing federal charges that he tampered with evidence after he was arrested on a highway with young girls in an enclosed trailer.

The state child welfare agency has removed children from Bateman's home where the FBI had recently served a search warrant, prosecutors say,

As of Friday, Republican officials in Texas and Arizona had sent 295 buses with approximately 13,000 migrants to Washington, D.C., New York and Chicago, all cities with Democratic mayors.

Police said officers searched the house and found the body in the tub in a natural mummified state.

The Republican candidates for Arizona governor and secretary of state are appealing a federal judge’s ruling dismissing their lawsuit seeking to require ballots in November’s election to be counted by hand.

The Republican candidates for Arizona governor and secretary of state on Wednesday appealed a federal judge's ruling that threw out a lawsuit they filed seeking to require the hand-counting of ballots in November's election. Lawyers representing governor candidate Kari Lake and secretary of state hopeful Mark Finchem filed a notice saying they would ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to revive their lawsuit. The pair sued in April, repeating unfounded allegations that vote-counting machines are not secure.

The Arizona Police Association is calling on Katie Hobbs to condemn two pro-choice organizations who have endorsed her over their support for defunding the police.

Patricia Burris filled the Old Pearce Mercantile with antiques and period furniture that were mostly donated by old families in the area.

Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters sounded off on President Biden and Democrats' dealings on inflation and the state of the economy on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

A man is behind bars after he was discovered with over $1 million in narcotics, along with drug paraphernalia and weapons, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.

California's Imperial Valley, which provides many of the nation’s winter vegetables and cattle feed, has one of the strongest grips on water from the Colorado River, a critical but over-tapped supply for farms and cities across the West.

General Motors’ self-driving car company has announced plans to expand a robotaxi service into new markets in Arizona and Texas before the end of this year.

In November 1922, seven land-owning white men brokered a deal to allocate water from the Colorado River, which winds through the West and ends in Mexico.

Patrick Mahomes threw for 360 yards and five touchdowns, lifting the Kansas City Chiefs to an impressive 44-21 road win over the Arizona Cardinals in the opener for both teams.

Four Republicans who have promoted false claims about the 2020 presidential election and are seeking to overhaul how elections are run by becoming their state’s chief election official say they are fighting against a corrupt system.

They were climbing in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona when, high up Baboquivari Peak, they encountered a migrant.

A federal judge in Phoenix has blocked enforcement of a new Arizona law restricting the filming of police.

A federal judge on Friday blocked enforcement of a new Arizona law restricting how the public and journalists can film police, agreeing with the American Civil Liberties Union and multiple media organizations who argued it violated the First Amendment. U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi issued a preliminary injunction that stops the law from being enforced when it is set to take effect on Sept. 24. The quick decision came after Republican Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and the prosecutor and sheriff's office in Maricopa County told the judge they did not plan to defend the law.

Temperatures hit 115 degrees the day Delphine Martinez's body was found, the National Park Service says.

September is Library Card Sign-up Month, and the Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library joins the American Library Association and libraries nationwide in celebrating the month-long event. It is a time to remind

The Border Patrol is seeing a dramatic shift in the type of migrants who come across the busiest places on the U.S.-Mexico.

As hundreds of migrants line up along an Arizona border wall around 4 a.m., agents try to separate them into groups by nationality. Migrants from at least 115 countries have been stopped here in the last year, but that may be less striking than what's missing: Mexicans are virtually absent. Instead, families from Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, India and dozens of other countries arrive in Yuma after wading through the knee-deep Colorado River.

The great red wave is looming.

Hundreds of thousands of people have signed initiative petitions for ballot measures in several states that would expand voting access, ensure abortion rights and legalize recreational marijuana.

Hundreds of thousands of people signed petitions this year backing proposed ballot initiatives to expand voting access, ensure abortion rights and legalize recreational marijuana in Arizona, Arkansas and Michigan. At the same time, Republican lawmakers in Arkansas and Arizona have placed constitutional amendments on the ballot proposing to make it harder to approve citizen initiatives in the future. The Republican pushback against the initiative process is part of a several-year trend that gained steam as Democratic-aligned groups have increasingly used petitions to force public votes on issues that Republican-led legislatures have opposed.

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Planned Parenthood Arizona has joined several other providers that have restarted abortion care in the state —, although it may only be temporary — after clinics ceased providing the service when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that women do not have a constitutional right to end a pregnancy. The organization has for years done the most abortions in the state, but it ended the practice after the high court overturned the Roe v. Wade ruling on June 24. Planned Parenthood and other providers shut down because of the legal uncertainty over a pre-statehood law that bans almost all abortions and a “personhood” law that they feared could be used to prosecute doctors and nurses providing that care.

In her emails with lawmakers in Wisconsin and Arizona, Thomas argued that results giving Pres. Biden a victory in the states were marred by fraud.

The Cocopah Indian Tribe said Friday that the state of Arizona acted against its wishes by stacking shipping containers on its land to prevent illegal border crossings. The tribe determined that the state put 42 double-stacked containers on its land near Yuma, said Michael Fila from its office of emergency management. The tribe wrote state officials Tuesday to inform them of their findings and concerns.

Phoenix's newly-appointed Heat Response Office is helping people beat the sun, as the city feels hotter and longer summers.

Blake Masters, with his provocative statements and problematic positions, throws a lifeline to Democrat Mark Kelly.

The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas also urged the Trump White House chief of staff to try to overturn President Joe Biden's election win.

President Biden will target extremists in the Republican Party in a prime-time address as Democrats battle to hold their majorities in Congress in the November midterm elections.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is hailing economic and educational cooperation with Taiwan, marked by a $12 billion investment in his state by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. Ducey spoke Thursday at a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, the latest of a series of visits by U.S. political leaders that have stirred the ire of China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory and condemns all official contacts between Taipei and foreign governments that recognize Beijing.

An Arizona judge has ordered three Republicans to pay $75,000 in attorney fees for filing a defamation suit against a former Democratic lawmaker “primarily for purposes of harassment.”.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has arrived in Taiwan for a visit focused on semiconductors, the critical chips that are used in everyday electronics and have become a battleground in the technology competition between the U.S. and China.

A border wall with Mexico isn’t the issue it was during Donald Trump's presidency but plans for more barriers in Yuma, Arizona, is a reminder of obstacles that the federal government always faces: difficulty working on tribal lands and private property.

A federal judge has refused to require that Arizona officials count ballots by hand in November.

Derek Chauvin has been moved from a Minnesota state prison where he was often held in solitary confinement to a medium-security federal prison in Arizona, where the former police officer convicted in George Floyd’s killing may be held under less restrictive conditions.

A handful of teenagers on the Hopi reservation saw a need for a safe place to skateboard and made it happen.

The Pentagon has once again denied a request from the District of Columbia seeking National Guard assistance in dealing with thousands of migrants being bused to the city from Texas and Arizona.

Thousands of asylum seekers from across Latin America and the Caribbean are getting caught in the political battle over U.S. immigration policy after two Republican governors started sending busloads of migrants to New York City and Washington.

Rookie tight end Isaiah Likely caught eight passes for 100 yards and a touchdown and the Baltimore Ravens ran their preseason winning streak to 22 games, beating the Arizona Cardinals 24-17 on Sunday night.

Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters says he hopes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will back his close campaign in Arizona.

Dire consequences could result if states, cities and farms across the American West cannot agree on how to cut the amount of water they draw from the Colorado River.

An Arizona judge is considering whether to allow the state to enforce a near-total ban on abortions that has been blocked for nearly 50 years.

People in Arizona and Nevada won’t face bans on watering their lawns or washing their cars despite more Colorado River water shortages.

Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and backers of universal school vouchers are taking a victory lap over legislation the Republican-controlled Legislature enacted in June giving the state the nation’s most expansive voucher system.

For the second year in a row, Arizona and Nevada will face cuts in the amount of water they can draw from the Colorado River as the West endures more drought.

Authorities say migrants were stopped fewer times at the U.S. border with Mexico in July than in June, a second straight monthly decline.

A wholesale nursery based out of Arizona is paying their respects to the 21-victims in the Robb Elementary mass shooting whose lives were tragically cut short by donating long-lasting trees.

Arizona officials say they will use shipping containers to close a 1,000-foot gap in the border wall near the southern Arizona farming community of Yuma.

Troy Kotsur, who made history as the first deaf man to win an Academy Award, has been honored with a key to his Arizona hometown.

They call him “El Jefe.”.

Former television news anchor Kari Lake has won the Republican primary for Arizona governor.

Officials in an Arizona county that weathered issues during Tuesday's primaries have replaced their elections director and said he is no longer employed.

Officials in an Arizona county are vowing to overhaul their election procedures after a shortage of some ballots at about two dozen voting sites led to some voters leaving before being able to cast their primary ballots.

Arizona voters relegated House Speaker Rusty Bowers to the history books after the conservative Republican crossed former President Donald Trump and refused to back his unsupported claims that he lost in 2020 because of fraud.

The Trump-endorsed Arizona lawmaker who won the GOP nomination for secretary of state is the latest candidate to advance to the November ballot for a post overseeing state elections while denying the results of the last one.

The attorney for Arizona’s most populous county has sent a letter warning a local candidate to stop encouraging voters to take the pens given to them at polling places to mark their ballots.

Vote counting continues in the close race to determine the Republican nominee for governor in Arizona, with former television news anchor Kari Lake narrowly leading lawyer Karrin Taylor Robson.

An Arizona lawmaker who embraces election conspiracies and was endorsed by former President Donald Trump has won the Republican primary for the top elections post in the presidential battleground.

Officials have closed some roads in and out of Death Valley National Park after they were inundated over the weekend with mud and debris caused by by flash flooding.

Primary elections are being held in six states on Tuesday.

An Arizona lawmaker endorsed by former President Donald Trump and another lawmaker who also believes the 2020 election should be overturned are among four Republicans vying to be the top election officer in Arizona.