In the wake of a gunman’s attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that left 50 dead, including the shooter, and 53 injured, condemnations of the killer, Omar Mateen, who in a 911 call to authorities reportedly swore allegiance to the terrorist group ISIS, have poured in from across…
The North American Monsoon is officially upon us. For the next three months, Arizona will be prone to heavy downpours, flash floods, dust storms, dry lightning, perhaps even a tornado or two. While most residents will witness the weather from the relative safety of their homes, a handful of Arizona…
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…
Wacko Tempe wacko preacher Steven Anderson never misses an opportunity to spew hate and homophobia, so it’s hardly a surprise that he’s capitalizing on the recent massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, where a gunman killed 50 and wounded 53 more early Sunday morning in the worst act of…
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…
U.S. Representative Paul Gosar, Tea Party Republican and professional tooth puller, is using the largesse of big government to assure his constituents that he’s, um, fighting big government. Granted, it’s a hard trick to pull off, but ol’ Doc Gosar is nothing if not baldfaced about it. He has been…
A glowing orange fireball streaked across the night sky, brightening the Arizona landscape for a few fleeting seconds just before dawn on June 2. A week after the historic sighting — which was captured on everything from home surveillance videos to NASA apparatus to police dash cams — scientists and collectors are scrambling to secure…
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…
For more than a week, 47-year-old Sixto Paz has been living in a small room in the back of a Phoenix church. If he steps off the property, he risks being deported to Mexico, which would mean abandoning his family and the life he has had built in Arizona over…
Ex-border vigilante Chris Simcox’s name now can be added to the list of infamous criminals to emerge from the Minuteman movement. On Wednesday, after deliberating for a day and a half, a Phoenix jury found the onetime anti-immigrant firebrand guilty on two counts of child molestation and one count of…
Inside the air-conditioned confines of the Hyatt Regency in downtown Phoenix earlier today, Arizona Public Service, was hosting the second annual Residential Demand Charges for Utilities Summit. Outside, about 50 protesters braved the heat to speak out against a pending proposal by the state’s largest utility to change the way it bills…
At least 100 women in the largest unit at Perryville women’s prison in Goodyear are not being properly treated for “unexplained and unresolved rashes and skin conditions” that are leaving them with “open oozing sores on their legs, arms, and torsos,” according to a May 31 letter from the nonprofit advocacy group Prison…
My mother is washing dishes. She’s using a paper napkin she found in the kitchen sink, and a little bit of leftover coffee from a mug on the counter. She scrubs at bits of egg stuck to a fork, sets it next to the saucer she’s just cleaned. Then she…
Monday morning, during the last day of ex-border vigilante Chris Simcox’s trial in Phoenix on six felony counts related to child molestation and exposing minors to porn, a video of one of his alleged victims dealt serious damage to Simcox’s cause when the prosecution played it in court. Simcox, who…
A male peregrine falcon chick whose short life roosting in a downtown Phoenix high-rise had been watched by thousands via webcam, has died after falling from its nest. On Saturday, June 4, the chick that hatched on Mother’s Day to great fanfare tumbled from its roost on the tenth floor of…
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…
To the rest of the world, Muhammad Ali’s legacy will be that of the person who dragged sports out of the black-and-white 1950s and into a full-color world. As the first major athlete (and maybe the last in our lifetimes) to put principle over personal fortune and public approbation. As…
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…
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich today announced the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Secretary of State Michele Reagan’s failure to send out hundreds of thousands of “publicity pamphlets” to voters regarding a recent statewide special election as required by law. In a letter to Reagan dated June 2,…
