Politics & Government

Former Liquor Board chair Michael Troyan co-owns Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row and other popular nightlife establishments in the Valley.

Emails shared with New Times show Polk had explicitly asked lawmakers to oppose the sentencing reform bill.

“They asked him for food and water and he allowed them to stay there, eat and drink,” records say.

The Arizona Republican congressman inflames again.

Two years ago, allegations surfaced that Jeff Fleetham, director of the Arizona Registrar of Contractors, was breaking the law.

Phoenix-area churches and religious leaders on Tuesday sued two extremist groups for intimidating volunteers who help undocumented immigrants.

Councilman and arts leader accuse each other of conflicts of interest.

The lawyers who sued Motel 6 called Brnovich’s claims “utterly meritless.”

Lawmakers are funneling $11 million to Ducey’s Border Strike Task Force, though the task force has achieved little more than good press for the governor.

“If you’re not going to provide equal funding for all three legs of the stool, the stool is only as effective as the least effective leg.”

Doug Ducey has signed every anti-abortion bill that’s been put before him. Next to Alabama, Arizona has some of the most restrictive abortion laws.

The anti-immigrant group went to the DNC and pretended they were leaving donations for asylum seekers. Instead, they left two bags of garbage.

The Legislature looks like it will lift a cap on a fund for affordable housing. But some say that’s not nearly enough.

“The report does not place the suspect in the vehicle at any time that the alleged paraphernalia was present.”

The Arizona Attorney General’s Office has never found evidence or proof of widespread voting fraud, but it wants to create a unit to investigate claims of such fraud.

Betty Guardado trounced incumbent Vania Guevara, and Carlos Garcia edged out Mike Johnson with a few hundred votes.

The far-right Center for Arizona Policy, led by Cathi Herrod, is behind the new bill.

“Prosecutors wield the most power in the criminal justice system and they’re like black holes, black boxes.”

ICE placed detainees in Arizona facilities in solitary confinement 715 times in recent years, newly released documents reveal.

How’s that for Arizona politics bingo?

“I’ve waited 20 years to have a voice,” said Lezleigh Jaworski. But Republicans “don’t even want to hear what we have to say.”