National advertising and digital-marketing company AdCellerant and Voice Media Group, parent company of the Phoenix New Times and six other newsweeklies, have launched a programmatic advertising network for cannabis businesses. Programmatic advertising refers to a variety of methods by which display ads are purchased and published automatically, with the idea…
The solar-powered airplane Solar Impulse 2 landed at a Phoenix-area airport on Monday night, completing a leg of its around-the-world goal to cheers from an enthusiastic crowd of well-wishers. Slowly but surely, the electric airplane is making history: It is powered solely by the solar panels that cover its wings,…
Our health is our most precious resource, yet our health-care system’s more adept at mining wallets than making us healthy. We pay one-and-a-half to two times what other countries pay for health care without appreciably better outcomes. America spends more than $9,500 per person annually, more than one-sixth of our…
For weeks a rumor has been circulating that when Phoenix’s main emergency shelter for women closes later this summer, the hundreds of women it serves will have nowhere else to go. It’s a situation that certainly seems plausible, given Maricopa County’s decision to shut down the Men’s Overflow Shelter last…
As an otherwise staid Arizona Republican Convention in Mesa wrapped up Saturday, Donald Trump’s campaign chair in Arizona, State Treasurer Jeff DeWit, sputtered into what best can be described as a Trump-style meltdown. Enraged by the results of an electronic election held that afternoon for 28 at-large delegates at the…
From the tons sold in state-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 some of last week’s biggest news stories about marijuana that affect the Grand Canyon State: Arizona Health Department Says It’ll Grant About…
The two photo-enforcement companies that operate in Arizona have obtained private-investigator licenses from the state in order to comply with last month’s opinion by the state Attorney General’s Office. On March 16, AG Mark Brnovich issued his opinion that photo-enforcement companies need P.I. licenses to handle “evidence to be used…
Arizona gets a lot of hate from people who don’t live here, but let’s face it — every state deserves a good roasting. So on subjects like the roasting Valley of the Sun heat, the cities of Sedona and Flagstaff, and Arizona as a whole, we present the top 10…
Youth advocates and members of the Arizona Public Defender Association want the Arizona Supreme Court to do what many other states have done and end the indiscriminate shackling of youth in juvenile courtrooms. In a petition submitted to the court, attorney Christina Phillis writes that, “The goal of juvenile court is…
Plans for competing ballot measures on solar power were scrubbed this week as peace broke out in the battle between rooftop-solar companies, utilities, and Republican lawmakers. Both sides in the debate over rooftop-solar payments agreed to sit at the negotiating table over the next two weeks in a settlement deal…
It looks and sounds like a city bus. That’s because it used to be one. But now, instead of passengers, the Fresh Express bus is packed with good-quality, low-cost fruit and vegetables. The renovated bus brings fresh produce to mostly low-income neighborhoods where a substantial number of residents have little-to-no…
At least one candidate for the GOP primary nod in the First Congressional District is not going to let Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu skate on his sleazy record: retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Wendy Rogers. In video obtained by New Times of a February candidates’ forum held at a…
Twelve Arizona college students were suckered out a total of $118,000 two years ago in an elaborate scam involving alleged con artists posing as potential employers. The real losers, though, seem to be the four men who were arrested this morning by special agents of the Arizona Attorney General’s Office…
The top Republican fundraising company that employed drug-bust suspect Emily Pitha also raised money for Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, an anti-marijuana-legalization group. Pitha and her boyfriend, Christopher Hustrulid, were arrested this week after a raid on their Phoenix home turned up large quantity of contraband and evidence of drug-dealing…
With a bill to ban uranium mining near the Grand Canyon all but dead in the U.S. House of Representatives, supporters of the effort are shifting gears and moving to Plan B: Trying to get the President Barack Obama to use his executive authority to do it by designating the…
Incensed by a group of protesters who blocked a road in an attempt to shut down a Donald Trump rally in Fountain Hills last month, a right-wing Arizona senator is pushing to increase the penalty for political protesters who interfere with traffic. Already, protesters who block traffic can be charged…
A cornucopia of meth, heroin, ecstasy, and other drugs, along with $7,000 in cash and evidence of drug-making equipment allegedly were seized by authorities this week at a Phoenix residence shared by a high-powered GOP fundraiser, her boyfriend, and his two young children. According to probable-cause statements on file with…
Harkins Theatres has canceled a planned screening of film alleging a connection between autism and the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine amid complaints from pediatricians. Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe will complete its week-long run at Harkins single-screen Valley Art theater in Tempe this evening. But Harkins has pulled the film…
An 18-year-old Grand Canyon University student remains in a medically induced coma at a Phoenix hospital following a long fall from a Camelback Mountain cliff face last week. “It’s terrible,” said Allison Castro, mother of victim Makayla “Kayla” Castro, in a TV interview from a hospital waiting room. “You just…
Supporters of Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders will have to suck it up. There will be no do-over of Arizona’s disastrous Presidential Preference Election. Following two days of testimony this week, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge booted a lawsuit claiming fraud, illegal voting and other improprieties in the contest,…
For many, there always was something fishy about the case against Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., the 21-landscaper previously accused of being the “I-10 Freeway Shooter.” Whether it was the way Governor Doug Ducey tweeted “We got him,” or the seemingly desperate way the Arizona Department of Public Safety adjusted its…
A federal jury has awarded a total of $28 million to Phoenix businessman Marc Wichansky, who alleged that his ex-partner assaulted him, committed fraud, and stole his company. Arizona U.S. District Judge David Campbell remarked that the “business divorce” between former friends and partners Wichansky and David Zowine was the…
