Politics & Government

At least 150 people marched down Central Avenue in Phoenix on Friday afternoon to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.

In an exclusive interview with New Times, Arizona’s favorite politician, Robert Sedona, discusses why he’s launching a 2018 campaign for governor on the heels of his failed bid for Congress in 2016.

Attendees of the Democratic election watch party celebrated some local victories, but the reality of a President Trump cast a pall over the Renaissance Hotel ballroom in downtown Phoenix.

Hundreds of high-school students from two Phoenix schools walked out of school at around lunchtime on Tuesday to protest Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Students from North High School created a 15-foot-high statue of Arpaio in trademark MCSO jail stripes and wearing handcuffs, driving it around in a pickup-truck bed…

Arizona nativists are spreading a fake news story that claims that a vanload of undocumented immigrants have voted illegally at six polling places in Pinal and Maricopa counties.

If you haven’t voted yet, the first thing you need to know is where to cast that ballot.

An Arizona voter’s guide to the big issues that define the U.S. Senate race between John McCain and Ann Kirkpatrick

Five things voters need to know about congressional candidate Paul Babeu before they go to the polls in Arizona’s First Congressional District.

Bernie Sanders stumped for Hillary Clinton in Phoenix on Sunday afternoon, two days before the 2016 presidential election.

Senator Bernie Sanders will campaign for Hillary Clinton in Phoenix on Sunday, November 6.

Less than a week before the election, Hillary Clinton held a rally at ASU that drew a crowd of at least 10,000.

New Times catches up with George Lindell, the “Jew S.A.” guy from the recent Trump rally in Phoenix, who discusses his controversial political, religious, and racial views.

The Arizona Democratic Party wants a federal judge to block the state’s Republican Party from an alleged effort to send out red-shirted Donald Trump supporters to hassle voters on election day. Exactly how many Trump supporters will heed calls by the Republican presidential candidate or state party to act as…

Candidate for JP Leonore Driggs got her rivals booted from the ballot and is running unopposed, but some are criticizing the way the mother of five is presenting herself to the public.

With less than a week until election day, Hillary Clinton will campaign in Arizona.

Tony Ryan and Jack Wilborn are voting “yes” on Proposition 205, the initiative to legalize marijuana in Arizona, and they’re encouraging others to do so, as well. Especially law-enforcement officers like them. “If law enforcement wants to improve community relations, they need to vote yes on 205,” says Wilborn, a…

Arizona Democratic lawmaker Cecilia Velasquez pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one misdemeanor count of misusing food stamps, despite previous denials and accusations of a “political witch hunt.” Velasquez, one of two State Representatives for Legislative District 29 in Litchfield Park,  originally pleaded not guilty back in June, when she was…

Did Jan Brewer put her foot in her mouth this past Friday? A lot of Arizona Latinos think so.  In an interview with the Boston Globe this past Friday, the former Arizona governor was asked whether she thinks Latinos will play a significant role in helping Hillary Clinton win Arizona, a…

When Governor Doug Ducey announced his appointment of David Farca to lead the Arizona-Mexico Commission last year, he attributed his choice to Farca’s “exceptional entrepreneurial experience.” But records in an ongoing lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court against Farca and ToH Design Studio, his Scottsdale interior-design and furnishings company, put a negative…

“Warn the young and the innocent: I’m about to get obscene.” That’s the untraditional opening line in a new campaign video from the guy who might just be Arizona’s most untraditional candidate, Democrat Mikel Weisser. Often seen wearing a baseball cap and peace sign or Bernie Sanders’ buttons while stumping for…

The owner of five Phoenix-area Mexican restaurants was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on Monday for tax fraud related to her hiring of undocumented workers. Isamary Diaz, 56, began Armando’s Mexican Food restaurants with her husband in 1986, later running the businesses herself after their divorce. She began…

Take a deep breath. The end of what may be the strangest, most unpredictable election season in all of American history is in sight, people! Tonight marks one of the final milestones: the third presidential debate.  Chris Wallace of Fox News will moderate, which should make for some very interesting…