The former mayor of the mining town of Superior (and ally to former Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu) has pleaded guilty to attempted theft of town funds in a case that caused him to lose two jobs.
A homeless man disabled a radar tower and landing light at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on February 20, police say. That’s five days after he was arrested and subsequently released without bail in a similar incident involving transmission towers at South Mountain.
The homeless man released from jail after being accused of destroying antenna equipment at South Mountain committed a similar crime five days later at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, police say.
Clear plastic license-plate covers that make a license plate difficult to read at certain angles have just become officially illegal in Arizona. For people using the covers, that may mean their vehicles will be more susceptible to photo-enforcement citations.
George Will, in his nationally syndicated column on Monday, writes that Arizona Doug Ducey is like a modern-day Barry Goldwater, and just may be the future conservatism in the Republican Party.
A former Arizona State University student convicted of shooting video of women using a campus restroom will soon be deported to his home country of China.
A new law signed by Governor Doug Ducey last week won’t destroy the initiative process, but critics say it needs to be repealed anyway.
One Mesa mother is ecstatic over President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, and believes they’ll go a long way toward helping solve the country’s immigration problems.
The parents of a 9-year-old boy shot in his Phoenix home on Monday failed to call for help as they made “extensive” efforts to hide evidence, police say. Wendy and Kansas Lavarnia of Phoenix are suspected of first-degree murder. Police are still investigating how the shooting happened.
Because of statute of limitations, Goodeau can’t be prosecuted for the crime now, but the victim has been notified, police say.
The Arizona Legislature has introduced legislation to assure that video footage from body cameras is not unfair to police officers. Do you think the officers need protection?
There are many potential winners and losers in the proposed 2018 budget released on Thursday by President Trump. New Times breaks down the possible windfall in border-security infrastructure, and also documents how much Arizona could lose in federal programs Trump wants to cancel.
A bill that mandates lifesaving procedures for embryos or fetuses “delivered alive” at abortion clinics has advanced a House committee. It now awaits a full vote by the House before being delivered to the governor for a possible signature.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have ramped up outbound searches of vehicles entering Mexico recently in a mission to find smuggled cash, ammunition, firearms, and other contraband.
Arizona’s voter-approved minimum wage law will stand, the state Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.The ruling was unanimous and will be followed at some point by a written explanation for the decision, according to a brief order.
Arizona politicians are taking steps to make Arizona an early adopter of blockchain technology, a type of digital ledger that tracks electronic transactions. Proponents claim the technology can fundamentally change how societies do business.
A supervisor for Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona pleaded guilty on Monday to stealing $313,000 in park entrance fees in a long-running embezzlement scam. Like the world-famous park’s notorious rock thieves, Sharon Baldwin, the park’s former fee supervisor, only stole a little at a time — but as court…
Prosecutors can’t decide whether to charge a man accused of disrupting TV and radio signals for about an hour last month by vandalizing equipment on top of South Mountain in Phoenix.
Two Swedish women bitten by dogs in a Camp Verde home in 2015 are suing for damages with the help of California celebrity lawyer Perry Wander.
A group of U.S. citizens stand accused of running a sophisticated resupply operation for some of the “vast network” of cartel scouts in the Arizona desert, recently unsealed court documents show.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has fired four of six agency heads that were the subjects of news articles. Check out New Times’ review of the appointees scrutinized by the media or state investigations.
Arizona’s largest public utility agreed on Wednesday to limit a planned rate hike for all customers and grandfather in rates for existing rooftop solar customers .New solar customers would receive similar compensation rates as existing customers.
