Tempe is considering a $300 annual tobacco license fee with $300 fines for retailers caught selling to people under the age of 21.

On a party-line vote, the Senate Education Committee approved a bill from Senator John Kavanagh that prohibits teachers and school officials from referring to students by pronouns that don’t match their gender assigned at birth.

Tobacco retailers in Tempe are begging the City Council to make a decision – any decision – on the troubled proposal.

The new session of Arizona Legislature has just convened and its Republican majority is already ginning up controversy by attacking LGBTQ people.

The sun may have set on the political contretemps of “Conspiracy Czar” Mark Finchem and “Windy” Wendy Rogers. But thanks to the recent elections, they’ve been swiftly supplanted with new foot soldiers. Meet Rachel Jones.

Struggling to earn the public’s trust, Governor Katie Hobbs delivered her inaugural address on January 5 alongside other new officeholders who waxed poetic about such issues as domestic terrorism and child punishment.

Why did taxpayers spend $240,000 per bedroom on these shipping container model homes downtown?

A proposed ban on “flavored tobacco vape products” in Tempe is coming under fire for conflating the vape and tobacco industries, factual errors, its impact on Arab business owners and hookah users, and holes large enough to fit even the biggest hookahs through.

Katie Hobbs spent hours on a stage inside a swanky ballroom on Wednesday, just two days after certifying her place as the governor-elect of Arizona. You hardly knew she was there.

Two Arizona lawmakers re-elected to Congress in November are unloading campaign donations they received from executives of the now-bankrupt crypto firm FTX.

Vicious insults, calls for violence, and threats of death. It’s par for the course for Maricopa County election deniers.

Tom Horne has been called the worst politician in Arizona, ever. Yet voters just elected him – again.

The red wave predicted to sweep over the state didn’t materialize on November 8. Commence the recriminations, drain circling and downward spirals.

When Election Day wrapped up in Arizona, the candidates did what they always do – shuffled off to parties to join supporters, watch results trickle in, and celebrate their victories.

Despite what Kari Lake and Mark Finchem will have you believe, this year’s vote counting is actually going faster than usual, according to a top Maricopa County elections official.