Arizona Politics

The city of Goodyear announced the passing of its mayor on Sunday, Dec. 12. Mayor Georgia Lord had hoped becoming the city's first female mayor brought inspiration to the community.

Gov. Doug Ducey named current court Commissioner David Garbarino and private practice attorney Quintin Cushner to judgeships in Maricopa County.

Arizona's Secretary of State and Democratic candidate for governor, Katie Hobbs, is issuing an apology to Talonya Adams, who says Hobbs was responsible for her 2015 discriminatory firing.

The board voted unanimously on Dec. 8 to appoint Thomas Galvin to the seat.

Arizona doesn’t have to give voters who forget to sign their mail ballot time after the election to resolve the issue, says a federal appeals court.

Morgan Abraham and Christopher Mathis has been appointed to the Arizona House of Representatives to fill vacancies in Districts 9 and 10.

Since 1974, the elite unit has tracked smugglers across the 2.8 million acres of the Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona and the 76-mile stretch of land bordering Mexico.

An Arizona law that predates the Roe v. Wade decision and targets providers could be enforced if the high court overturns Roe.

Parents and students in Scottsdale are speaking out amid ongoing controversy over a book that was assigned to students in an Advanced Placement English class at a high school.

Members of Chandler's city council approved a pilot program on Aug. 26 that would look into utilizing block-chain technology as a secure form of voting from anywhere that would allow more participation in election. On Dec. 1, the city reviewed results of a mock election that was held to test the system out.

A United States Supreme Court hearing involving the right to an abortion brought out hundreds of pro-life and pro-choice protesters, and in Arizona, there is no shortage of opinions over the issue of abortion. Some believe should the U.S. Supreme Court roll back Roe v. Wade with a ruling, abortion could be banned outright in a number of U.S. states.

The Senate and Cyber Ninjas have been battling for months over two public records lawsuits, one each filed by the parent of The Arizona Republic and American Oversight, a government watchdog group.

According to court records, the Arizona Department of Public Safety cited Rodriguez following a two-vehicle, non-injury collision on Interstate 8

Arizona AG Mark Brnovich said the suit challenging the new Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations targeting employers with 100 or more workers would be filed Friday.

Gary M. Restaino was confirmed as the United States Attorney for Arizona on Friday. He has been a federal prosecutor in Arizona since 2003 and was previously the chief of the criminal division and the white collar crime section.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg made three pit stops on Nov. 19 in Phoenix, where he discussed different infrastructure issues, along with how the Biden administration plans to fix it.

The Arizona secretary of state's office says opponents of the massive tax cuts enacted by the Legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey collected enough signatures to block them from taking effect.

Two juries have already agreed that Talonya Adams' firing from her role as an advisor to the State Senate in 2015 was retaliatory and based on discrimination, and she said Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who was in the Arizona State Senate at the time and the person Adams calls as essentially the decider in the matter, needs to step down from office.