Politics & Government

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

In a strange twist to the ongoing legal battles over the city’s largest area for homeless people, large metal dinosaurs displaced some unsheltered people, and no one will say who installed the Jurassic art.

Katie Hobbs spent hours on a stage inside a swanky ballroom on Wednesday, just two days after certifying her place as the governor-elect of Arizona. You hardly knew she was there.

Two Arizona lawmakers re-elected to Congress in November are unloading campaign donations they received from executives of the now-bankrupt crypto firm FTX.

“The city is terrorizing the very people it should be helping,” ACLU attorneys say.

Vicious insults, calls for violence, and threats of death. It’s par for the course for Maricopa County election deniers.

Tom Horne has been called the worst politician in Arizona, ever. Yet voters just elected him – again.

The red wave predicted to sweep over the state didn’t materialize on November 8. Commence the recriminations, drain circling and downward spirals.

The city of Phoenix is poised to restart mass cleanups in its largest homeless encampment after nine months. They sparked controversy and resistance – and a federal investigation.

When Election Day wrapped up in Arizona, the candidates did what they always do – shuffled off to parties to join supporters, watch results trickle in, and celebrate their victories.

Despite what Kari Lake and Mark Finchem will have you believe, this year’s vote counting is actually going faster than usual, according to a top Maricopa County elections official.

It’s all over – except for the counting. Mostly. The final day to cast ballots in a contentious midterm election has arrived in Arizona. So sit back and follow our Election Day coverage right here.

Arizona teachers are evacuating the classroom in record numbers. Where are they going? The state legislature – if the voters allow.

With just days to go before an Arizona midterm election that will bring new leadership to the state and could determine control of the U.S. Senate, Arizona Democrats called in former President Barack Obama.

Abe Hamadeh isn’t quite sure how the First Amendment works. But he does know that he hates Phoenix New Times and its reporting on his campaign for Arizona Attorney General.

A group of property owners downtown wants the city of Phoenix to take action on a downtown homeless encampment.

Kari Lake is spending the final days of her campaign for Arizona governor playing pranks.

Mark Finchem, the GOP’s pick for Arizona Secretary of State, likes to preach “follow the law.” Yet the state lawmaker recently cozied up to a convicted criminal. It’s the latest example of Finchem’s hypocrisy.

Prominent Phoenix attorney Brandon Rafi donated $5,300 to the campaign of Abe Hamadeh, the Republican candidate for Arizona Attorney General and Big Lie purveyor.

Blake Masters is mixing up the MAGA playbook.

The Phoenix City Council approved a resolution that directs police to deprioritize enforcement of any laws that restrict or criminalize abortions and declared the city’s opposition to the fall of Roe v. Wade.

Blake Masters wasn’t afraid to tell a few fibs on the debate stage on October 6. Here are a few of our favorites.