Unless you live in an underground cave, you probably witnessed at least some part of Monday night’s crazy-big monsoon storm: heavy rains, 65 mph gusts of wind, dust storms, thunder and lightening, flash floods, and even hail. National Weather Service Meteorologist Keith Kincaid called Monday night’s microburst “nothing unusual” for…
Previous marijuana tax-revenue estimates were far too low, says a new report by the non-partisan Grand Canyon Institute. Arizona would raise about $72 million in revenue annually if voters make recreational marijuana legal in Arizona in November of next year with an anticipated ballot initiative, says the report, published on…
Despite Senator John McCain’s reported interest in all things related to Islamic terrorism and abortion politics, he claimed not to know about the growing Islamophobia movement in Arizona and the recent report by a team of forensic video experts proving that the controversial Planned Parenthood videos were edited in a…
Thanks to Republican presidential contender Donald Trump and right-wing pundit Ann Coulter, hating on “anchor babies” is all the rage. But Phoenix nativist Michelle Dallacroce, founder and president of Mothers Against Illegal Aliens wants you to know that she was hating on so-called anchor babies before hating on them was…
Amid both the national conversation about water pollution following the Animas River spill and a controversial debate over whether to tighten laws within the Clean Water Act, a recent U.S. Geological Survey study found that human activity is causing an alarmingly high concentration of toxins in one of our most important…
Local liberals freaked when their top 10 wacky beliefs were skewered. But Arizona conservatives boast equally nutty ideas. Here are 10 of the nuttiest. 10) President Obama is not a natural-born citizen. 9) More guns in America means a safer America. 8) People give a rat’s ass about Hillary’s e-mails. …
While Arizona Senator John McCain is “pleased” that a federal judge in North Dakota issued an injunction against the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Rule, his critics – some of whom have their own, separate concerns about the ruling – say his reasoning is just another example of how he…
When Nancy Markham’s ex-boyfriend wrapped his hands around her neck and attempted to strangle her last year, she called 911. She called again when he showed up with a handgun and tried to break into her house, again when he threatened her with a knife, and again when he drove…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday afternoon that 42-year-old Arizona resident Ahmed Mohammed El Gammal has been charged with four counts of “planning and perpetrating a Federal crime of terrorism against the United States.” From 2014 through August 2015, El Gammal, who went by Jammie Gammal, “did knowingly and…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a serious pot connection, one that may score us all legal ganja come 2016: Republican political consultant Chad Willems of Summit Consulting Group. For many years, Willems has been Arpaio’s campaign guru and money man, helping Arpaio raise millions, outspending Arpaio’s opponents, and raking in a…
Surveillance video released by Scottsdale police on Wednesday shows the chaos of a huge crowd watching a large fight that engulfed a downtown Scottsdale street earlier this month. Scottsdale police stated this week that they are seeking criminal against four people believed to have started a melee on August 2,…
On a March night 37 years ago, a young Glendale woman was gruesomely shot to death in her car on a secluded street after an evening of shopping at nearby mall. Her slumped over body and 1976 Toyota Celica were discovered around 8:30 p.m. by a local jogger on the…
Governor Doug Ducey fired the company that manages a private prison near Kingman, saying the group did not “promptly and effectively” quell a three-day riot in July that injured 16 people. “Our action should send a loud warning shot to all prison operators,” Ducey said. “Fail in your job, we…
About a month after a Federal District judge rejected a preliminary injunction intended to prevent the Arizona Department of Transportation from razing 200-plus properties to make way for the South Mountain Free pass, the initial demolition is set to begin this week. While some are celebrating, others are not so…
In what may turn out to be one of the least competitive citywide elections in Phoenix history, voters overwhelming reinstated Mayor Greg Stanton and four City Council members — Daniel Valenzuela, Thelda Williams, Bill Gates, and Michael Nowakowski — and passed all five ballot measures. It was not a very…
In the wake of both the recent Gold King Mine disaster that unleashed more than 3 million gallons of toxic mining waste into the Animas River earlier this month, and the impending resumption of uranium mining at Canyon Mine near the Grand Canyon, a coalition of 15 environmental organizations, three…
Police want four people, including an off-duty Scottsdale firefighter, charged with starting a melee in downtown Scottsdale. Hundreds of people were involved in the incident, which shut down North Saddlebag Trail and East Shoeman Lane about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, August 2, according to a report reviewed by New Times. No…
“I really don’t like the idea of someone getting a traffic ticket or J-walking ticket and having to set up a payment plan in order to finance somebody’s election,” William Nelson, a Navy veteran, said Monday night. “That sounds pretty rotten.” This was one reaction to a proposal to publicly…
The city of Phoenix sent an official demand to a disgraced Arizona State University professor today for the money it paid for police-training material the city alleges actually was an “egregious” copying job. Phoenix’s move is yet another blow to the now-stained reputation of Matthew Whitaker, a history professor and…
Arizona is calling in U.S. health officials to investigate an outbreak of the rare — and sometimes fatal — mosquito-borne illness St. Louis Encephalitis. Nationally, there are typically only about 20 cases of St. Louis Encephalitis annually, said Dr. Rebecca Sunenshine, medical director for the Disease Control Division at the…
Backers of a marijuana-legalization plan in Arizona are outraged over an unsigned editorial in the Arizona Republic published on Friday that used an inaccurate tax-revenue figure to bolster its claim that campaign officials were lying. New Times also noticed the error on Friday morning and left the Republic’s editorial page editor,…
The 100 or so free-roaming horses that the Tonto National Forest Service marked for roundup earlier this month aren’t the only animals that are in danger of getting ousted from their homes along the banks of Arizona’s Salt River. But it’s not the Forest Service that’s threatening these animals. It’s…
