With mere days left for the public to comment on whether Arizona should renew air-quality permits for three uranium mines near the Grand Canyon, multiple tests found that the amount of uranium dust in soil near one of the mines is four times higher than background levels. Energy Fuels Incorporated,…
It’s probably safe to say that 2015 was the year of the listicle — for those not in the know, list + article = listicle. From the top 10 times John McCain was mocked on late night TV to the 10 biggest revelations in Joe Arpaio’s contempt trial, we’ve covered it…
Metro Phoenix tops the list for urban areas infested with creepy critters, a services-finding website says. Thumbtack.com is like an Angie’s List competitor and one of the top websites in the country, hooking up Internet users with services like music lessons, home repair, and, of course, pest-control services. Unlike a…
The photographed figures in the snow appear to be loping, apelike creatures with an eerie resemblance to America’s favorite mythical monsters. The picture, taken by an Arizona Department of Transportation highway camera recently, has caused a buzz in the pseudo-scientific world of Bigfoot hunting. “We might have spotted a family…
Kathy Inman’s organization has a unique mission: Convincing Arizona’s senior-citizen voters that marijuana legalization is a good idea. “It’s about breaking the stereotype,” says Inman, executive director of the pot-advocacy group MomForce AZ. “For a lot of years, it was promoted as a part of the hippie society, and older folks don’t…
More fools in Phoenix have pointed lasers at aircraft than in any other city in the United States so far this year, the Federal Aviation Administration statistics show. There have been 170 reported events here in 2015 — nearly double the 93 incidents from last year — making Phoenix first in…
As immigration enforcement officials prepare to round up and deport about 15,000 undocumented immigrants, a network of Arizona faith leaders are mobilizing to shield families. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is finalizing plans, but, according to an article published just before Christmas by the Washington Post’s Jerry Markon and David…
Forty-year-old Sidney Cranston Jr., got on his motorcycle the morning of June 16 to meet a buyer at a vacant property in Kingman. Later that day, he was scheduled for an important meeting with the Kingman City Council regarding the sewer hookup on the house he was selling. It was…
If there’s ever a time to put on your fancy clothes, pop that bubbly, and hit the town, it’s tonight: New Year’s Eve. If there’s ever a time to take an Uber, a Lyft, a taxi — or a bus or a train or a flying carpet – it’s tonight:…
With a few hours left until the official deadline, the Campaign to Recall Diane Douglas, Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, says it didn’t gather enough signatures to get the recall measure put on a special election ballot. “Our biggest problem was fundraising,” Campaign Chairman Max Goshert tells New Times. “We…
Did John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign purposefully darken Barack Obama’s skin in advertisements to capitalize on negative racial stereotypes? It appears so, concludes a new study published in the research journal Public Opinion Quarterly. Playing off past studies showing that darker skin and “Afrocentric” facial features trigger “the part of…
An Arizona State University sorority sister who torched her ex-boyfriend’s condo in May has entered a guilty plea that will put her behind bars for six months. Claudia Rose Drinnan, 21, broke into the home near Hardy Drive and Southern Avenue about 2 a.m. on May 14, climbing into her…
A few years ago, Debbie Allen’s teenage daughter ran away from her Tucson home. The 18-year-old returned home pregnant and addicted to drugs. “With her being a runaway and being on drugs, it wasn’t a complete shock when she came and told us she was pregnant,” Allen says. “When she…
Breaking news, guys. After three harrowing days spent mewing for help, a cat stuck atop a Phoenix power pole has been rescued. Well, actually, the Salt River Project employee dispatched to rescue it scared it — , so it ran down the pole on it’s own, said Kathleen Mascarenas, an…
There are always people who don’t seem to understand the concept that there are regulations about what you can and cannot bring on an airplane.For example, in 2013, TSA agents at Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix confiscated 65 guns. But people try to bring on more than just guns. Check…
In the last decade, the rate of Arizona teens and young adults who have died from drug overdoses has more than doubled. The statistic comes from a new study by the Trust for America’s Health, which looked at the fatal drug overdose rates among people ages 12-25 throughout the country…
The Arizona Department of Corrections has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging that it failed to provide a safe work environment for a teacher who was raped while administering a GED test at a state prison. The teacher, who was the subject of a New Times cover story in July,…
During 2015, New Times published 50 long-form articles. Some delved into complicated political battles, others into sex scandals or shortcomings in the Arizona legal system, others were elegant features. Each one took weeks — sometimes months — to report and write. Here are six of our favorites: 6. The Trouble at Barrett by…
In the four months since Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Abdelfattah’s moved from Cairo to Phoenix, he’s had to navigate through all the typical culture shocks, such as new food and new social norms. But perhaps the most jarring thing he’s had to come to terms with is the recent surge in…
The Errl Cup is testing pot concentrates so that medical-marijuana customers know where they’re getting the best products and where they’re getting ripped off. Free to all medical-marijuana cardholders, the event is set for January 9 in Tempe. It will feature a competition for best flower and concentrate, test results…
A Tempe police officer fatally shot a knife-wielding man late Sunday night after two officers responded to a domestic-violence call on West Freemont Street. The shooting death comes at the end of a year in which officer-involved shootings dominated national discourse. According to Lieutenant Mike Pooley of the Tempe PD,…
Arizona’s Public Integrity Alliance, a conservative nonprofit group largely made up of East Valley Republicans, has helped topple former state Attorney General Tom Horne, targeted the slimy political maneuverings of former state Senate President Russell Pearce and his bumbling brother Lester, and put pressure on ex-Arizona Corporation Commission Chair Susan…
