Stephen Vanderhoeven of England just wanted to find a chuckwalla, a stubby cousin of the iguana that inhabits the cracks and boulders of Camelback Mountain in Phoenix. His body was found at the bottom of a cliff on Tuesday afternoon, making him the latest statistic in a recent tragic streak…
Customers of Arizona’s largest utility shouldn’t be forced to help contribute to an anti-marijuana-legalization campaign, consumer advocates say. As Phoenix New Times reported on Monday, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, the holding company for Arizona Public Service, made a recent donation of $10,000 to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, a group led…
Federal authorities have charged a Phoenix police officer and his cousin for setting off a wildfire near the ghost town of Cleator while target shooting with tracer ammunition. Tom Sario, who has worked as a Phoenix officer for nine years, “is currently working on a non-enforcement position,” says Sergeant Jonathan…
From the tons sold in legal medical-marijuana dispensaries to the tons imported each year from Mexico, Arizona knows its cannabis. Here’s a roundup of last week’s biggest pot news stories that affect the Grand Canyon State… APS Parent Company Pinnacle West Donates to Arizona Anti-Legalization Campaign Powering up your computer…
Settlement talks brokered by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey between a pro-solar group, lawmakers, and the state’s largest utility have been halted for now. “They’ve been suspended,” Kris Mayes, spokeswoman for the SolarCity-backed group, told New Times on Thursday. Mayes added that the suspension is effective immediately. “Unfortunately, that’s all I can say.”…
A new Arizona Public Service rate plan would essentially kill off new solar installations by top companies Solar City, SunRun, and Vivant by next year, a Credit Suisse analyst said on Tuesday. The statements in a research report by analyst Patrick Jobin added to fears already voiced by the pro-solar…
A Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community police officer has resigned following accusations that he sexually abused a woman in his squad car. On May 26, Scottsdale police arrested 45-year-old Jay Wu, a decorated Salt River officer who’d been with the department for 10 years. He was released him on his…
From the tons sold in legal medical-marijuana dispensaries to the tons imported each year from Mexico, Arizona is a place that knows its cannabis. Here’s a roundup of last week’s biggest pot news stories that affect the Grand Canyon State… Long-Term Marijuana use Leads to Few Health Problems, Study Led by…
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali, a.k.a. “The Greatest,” one of the top sports figures of all time, died at age 74 at a Phoenix area hospital on Friday night. Ali was said to have died of complications from Parkinson’s disease, from which he’d suffered since the 1990s. Following medical setbacks that…
Stacey Theis spent untold hours in recent months tooling across Arizona in her bright-green CannaBus, talking to voters and collecting signatures for a grassroots marijuana-legalization campaign. After Wednesday’s announcement by the group, Arizonans for Mindful Regulation, that it was halting its 2016 petition drive a month before the state’s July…
A judge has ruled that the Arizona Department of Health Services wrongly denied a hearing to petitioners who want people with Parkinson’s disease to qualify for medical marijuana. “In a desire for professionalism, the department has utilized a standard of proof that is higher than the rules call for,” Administrative Law…
A grassroots Arizona cannabis-legalization campaign halted its drive for a 2016 ballot measure on Wednesday after failing to reach its signature-collection goals. Campaign manager Jason Medar confirmed in an April 12 blog post that Arizonans for Mindful Regulation wasn’t gathering petitions fast enough to make the July 7 deadline to…
Faster than a spinning lobbyist, more powerful than a strike-all amendment — it’s AZ Powergirl, celebrity cosplay model, swooping in to save the Arizona Legislature! Or so voters of Tempe’s Legislative District 26 can imagine, now that Cara Nicole Trujillo is officially in the race for the Arizona House of Representatives…
From the tons sold in legal medical-marijuana dispensaries to the tons imported each year from Mexico, Arizona is a place that knows its cannabis. Here’s a roundup of last week’s biggest pot news stories that affect the Grand Canyon State… Pro-Cannabis, Left-Wing Candidates File to Run for Office in Arizona…
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport might get rid of the Transportation Security Administration and bring in a private company to screen passengers and bags, according to an internal city memo released on Thursday, May 26. Under a “Screening Partnership Program” model now in place at 22 airports nationwide, security personnel from…
Paradise Valley kept its photo-enforcement cameras on after Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich issued his legal opinion in March — and now the town’s so backed up with tickets, it can’t process them all. The upscale Phoenix suburb is mailing violation notices to some of those offenders before statutory deadlines…
From the tons sold in legal medical-marijuana dispensaries to the tons imported each year from Mexico, Arizona is a place that knows its cannabis. Here’s a roundup of last week’s biggest pot news stories that affect the Grand Canyon State… CRMLA Takes Issue With Pot Prohibitionists’ Acceptance of Booze-Industry Contribution…
A judge sentenced cannabis activist Billy Hayes to two years in prison on Friday for his role in two medical-marijuana businesses. Hayes, 40, is a hero to those who oppose monopolistic practices and tight restrictions in the marijuana industry,and was the subject of a November 2014 feature story in New…
On Thursday, May 19, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge sentenced Tracy Elise, head priestess of the now-defunct Phoenix Goddess Temple, to four and a half years in prison for numerous felony counts related to running a house of prostitution. The long-running case received international attention and was the subject…
Governor Doug Ducey has declared Proposition 123 a winner. The school-funding measure, which was pushed by Ducey, had held a very narrow lead since the special election held Tuesday, May 17. Two days later, election officials in Maricopa County hadn’t quite finished counting ballots, but the latest results showed that Prop…
The fate of an Arizona ballot measure that would give more money to schools won’t be known until tomorrow afternoon or evening, election officials now say. Proposition 123, pushed by Governor Doug Ducey and put on the ballot by a referendum approved by the State Legislature, was winning by just 8,806…
“Disabled” doesn’t describe Emily Bowe, a Gilbert teen who has been blind since birth. The 15-year-old honors student at Campo Verde High School plays the flute, clarinet, and piccolo, speaks German, says she has completed “a few” novels, and is one of the most talented young people in the nation at Braille reading and…
