Politics & Government

The evictions of more than 100 families could start as soon as Saturday.

Tears were shed. Conspiracies were floated. Grievances were aired.

Three Phoenix City Councilmembers offered four ways to help during an emotional meeting on Monday.

Not even advice from their own attorney kept Republicans on the Senate Rules Committee from approving a trio of bills targeting LGBTQ people.

A group of Arizona’s headline-grabbing right-wing lawmakers made it clear that they plan to fight to restrict abortions in the state.

“Let’s get angry.” Black civic leaders want the Tempe City Council to reverse course and once again pursue a ban on the sale of flavored nicotine products.

In yet another step in the Arizona GOP’s rush to criminalize drag, a pair of anti-LGBTQ bills passed Senate committees on February 16.

Republicans in the Arizona Senate are one step closer to banning books that “promote gender pronouns” and banning trans students from school bathrooms.

If you haven’t had your catalytic converter swiped from your car around metro Phoenix recently, you probably know someone who has. A new bill in the Arizona Senate would make this a felony.

Republican lawmakers advanced a bill that would prohibit public money from being used to pay for “drag shows targeting minors” in Arizona.

Republicans on the Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee dished unfounded accusations and homophobic tropes on the way to approving a bill criminalizing drag shows.

Tempe is considering a $300 annual tobacco license fee with $300 fines for retailers caught selling to people under the age of 21.

On a party-line vote, the Senate Education Committee approved a bill from Senator John Kavanagh that prohibits teachers and school officials from referring to students by pronouns that don’t match their gender assigned at birth.

Tobacco retailers in Tempe are begging the City Council to make a decision – any decision – on the troubled proposal.

The new session of Arizona Legislature has just convened and its Republican majority is already ginning up controversy by attacking LGBTQ people.

The sun may have set on the political contretemps of “Conspiracy Czar” Mark Finchem and “Windy” Wendy Rogers. But thanks to the recent elections, they’ve been swiftly supplanted with new foot soldiers. Meet Rachel Jones.

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.

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?

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.

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 was the first clean up the city has conducted in the downtown homeless encampment in months – and it was watched closely.