Election-denying lawmakers hold key election oversight roles
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.
Democrat Ruben Gallego pursues Sinema's Arizona Senate seat
Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego says heโll 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)
news.yahoo.comSkipped Showers, Paper Plates: An Arizona Suburb's Water Is Cut Off
RIO VERDE, Ariz. โ 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 communityโs 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
news.yahoo.comArizona GOP Rep. Eli Crane, a freshman lawmaker who opposed Kevin McCarthy as speaker, says he 'might wind up in the broom closet' over his vote
"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.
news.yahoo.comNew Arizona governor wants to undo school voucher expansion
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 governorโs 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.
news.yahoo.comArizona's shipping container wall on border is coming down
Former Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Duceyโs 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.
US: Imprisoned polygamous leader helped plan girls' escape
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.
Former Arizona coach Miller not sanctioned in NCAA case
Former Arizona basketball coach Sean Miller escaped sanctions when a report from the Independent Accountability Resolution Process largely accepted the programโs self-imposed penalties stemming from a NCAA rules violations case that dates back to 2017.