With RNC Chairman Reince Priebus tapped by Donald Trump to be the president-elect’s chief of staff, the top slot at RNC is open and Arizona GOP chair Robert Graham wants to fill the void.
David Farca has resigned his volunteer role as president of the Arizona-Mexico Commission as he remains embroiled in a lawsuit over his personal business dealings. Governor Doug Ducey had appointed Farca to the unpaid position last year. The commission, a quasi-governmental, nonprofit state agency, works to bolster business relationships between Arizona…
In an interview with New Times, Phoenix mayor Greg Stanton talked about his recent visit to Mexico, emphasizing that a Trump presidency will not change Phoenix’s commitment to strengthen ties with the United States’ southern neighbor.
A new scientific study from the Center for American Progress finds that creating the Grand Canyon monument would help preserve some of the most ecologically significant land in the western U.S.
Environmentalists in the West are shaking their heads after learning that one of Arizona’s most prominent anti-public-lands and climate-change-denying politicians, U.S. Representative Paul Gosar, was just elected chairman of the U.S. Congressional Western Caucus. “Congressman Paul Gosar has built a career carrying water for industrial interests while working against America’s…
Lucid Motors, a would-be electric-car company based in Silicon Valley, announced plans on Tuesday to build a $700 million car plant in Casa Grande that would have parts supplied by firms in Sonora, Mexico. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey led a gathering of dignitaries from Arizona and Mexico on the State…
Congressman Ruben Gallego believes it’s time for a new House Democratic leader and is backing Tim Ryan’s bid to unseat Nancy Pelosi.
After John McCain tweeted his support of a federal judge’s decision to block a new overtime-pay rule, the Arizona senator’s Twitter followers carved into him like a freshly roasted Butterball.
On Wednesday, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey fired Tim Jeffries, the man he’d appointed as director of the state’s Department of Economic Security. The grounds for dismissal: Jeffries’ mass firings of workers, which were first reported last year by Phoenix New Times. Jeffries, who received an annual salary of $215,250, had served…
David Farca, head of the quasi-governmental Arizona-Mexico Commission, has been fired from the presidency of Arizona’s professional soccer team. Last year, Governor Doug Ducey appointed Farca to a non-salaried post running the Arizona-Mexico Commission, a nonprofit that works to enhance the state’s business relationship with Mexico. As president, Farca is the primary…
Far-right advocacy group Judicial Watch files suit on behalf of Russell Pearce against Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich for public records that Brnovich’s office was about to release.
A group of professors is calling on Arizona’s public colleges and universities to protect undocumented students who may face deportation under President-elect Donald Trump.
Former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is on President-elect Donald Trump’s shortlist for Secretary of the Department of the Interior. Local environmentalists think she’d be terrible at the job.
Donors are keeping Planned Parenthood busy in the wake of the U.S. presidential election.
Arizona could be well-represented in President Trump’s cabinet, judging by lists of the various contenders for high-ranking jobs released over the weekend.
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
