Struggling to earn the public’s trust, Governor Katie Hobbs delivered her inaugural address on January 5 alongside other new officeholders who waxed poetic about such issues as domestic terrorism and child punishment.
The noise was deafening at State Farm Stadium on Saturday night, a blend of ecstasy and incredulity.
A California company installed unauthorized metal sculptures in a homeless encampment downtown. Now, it’s refusing to take them down.
Why did taxpayers spend $240,000 per bedroom on these shipping container model homes downtown?
Cannabis in Arizona is so much more than getting baked. Here are nine moments we took note of from covering cannabis in the Valley this year.
The execution date of Aaron Gunches is nearing. Will new Attorney General Kris Mayes move to stop it?
An English teacher spoke out about Valley Christian High School’s discrimination against LGBTQ students. He was fired days later.
Southwest Airlines’ first-class faux pas can be felt in Phoenix.
The Arizona Rattlers are the winningest arena football team ever. Maybe that’s why their open tryout drew record numbers of pro football hopefuls.
A proposed ban on “flavored tobacco vape products” in Tempe is coming under fire for conflating the vape and tobacco industries, factual errors, its impact on Arab business owners and hookah users, and holes large enough to fit even the biggest hookahs through.
Mint Cannabis helped four families in need – a Mesa DJ sidelined by health concerns, a mother of two who fled from domestic violence living with her children in a Tempe motel, a single mom of nine in Laveen, and a single mom of three in west Phoenix – the week before Christmas through its Adopt-A-Family program.
A California-based ghost kitchen company installed giant dinosaurs in a sprawling homeless encampment in downtown Phoenix and now has until December 30 to remove them.
It’s been 10 years since Arizona Organix opened to serve metro Phoenix’s local cannabis patients and became Arizona’s first state-approved medical marijuana dispensary. Cheech Marin, dozens of lowriders, musicians, and an estimated crowd of 2,500 people met up December 10 to celebrate.
It was the first clean up the city has conducted in the downtown homeless encampment in months – and it was watched closely.
The week of November 28 was a deadly one for the Phoenix Police Department.
The Phoenix New Times analyzed the last meal requests of people executed in the state since 1992 – 40 men in all. Fresh vegetables, ice cream and fries were among the most requested items.
In a strange twist to the ongoing legal battles over the city’s largest area for homeless people, large metal dinosaurs displaced some unsheltered people, and no one will say who installed the Jurassic art.
Phoenix New Times is here to help with gift ideas for the cannabis consumer in a variety of price ranges to help you navigate the holiday rush and elevate your festivities.
“Us workers, we need to stand up. And we need to fight for what’s right for us.”
Katie Hobbs spent hours on a stage inside a swanky ballroom on Wednesday, just two days after certifying her place as the governor-elect of Arizona. You hardly knew she was there.
One month after Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone was held in contempt in an ongoing federal court case, the county is bracing itself for a fine of $1.15 million – and possibly more.
Rachel Mitchell won a full term in office, returning a law-and-order era prosecutor back to power in the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.
