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Cities, counties, school boards, and the state decisions that land closest to home — including Capitol, elections, and border coverage.
Includes Local Government plus State Capitol, Elections, and Border & Growth coverage.
Local
ASU visits No. 10 Texas A&M at Kyle Field, chasing its first AP top-10 road win since 2015 and its first SEC road victory, with a 9 a.m. MST kickoff.
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Two candidates facing civil and criminal investigations into whether they fraudulently qualified for millions in public campaign funding want a court to block the Clean Elections Commission from making them repay the money. Gubernatorial candidate Risa Lombardo and secretary of state candidate Duwayne Collier filed...
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Voters in a dozen states will decide ballot measures this year regulating access to elections. The post Voter ID, noncitizen voting questions on ballots across the country first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
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Criminally, Gov. Katie Hobbs may be cleared. But politically and ethically, this whole thing with Sunshine Residential still stinks royally. And, no, it’s not because the person who won’t charge her criminally is fellow Democrat Kris Mayes, the state’s attorney general. It has a lot to do with Hobbs’ secrecy about...
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump tried to maintain power following his loss in the 2020 election by exerting pressure on state election officials to, in some cases, “find” the votes. Loyalist Republicans in Congress then attempted to deny Joe Biden the Oval Office when lawmakers gathered to certify the Electoral...
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When Craig McFarland won his first term as mayor in 2016, Pinal County was finally starting to boom. The post Craig McFarland: Making Pinal County part of the new economy first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
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PHOENIX — CAP board members aired concerns over federal plans cutting nearly half of Arizona’s Colorado River access, doubting the system can meet post-2026 two-year recovery targets for Lake Mead.
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WASHINGTON – Water researchers say data centers are not causing Arizona’s Colorado River shortage, but rapid growth, limited water-use data and rising power demand are fueling calls for more transparency as the state faces steep cuts.
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Biggs and Ciscomani skip convention, Feely speaks
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Cooling systems in Arizona state prisons failed this summer as temperatures hit triple digits. Now, the reported outages have caught the attention of a state legislator who is demanding that leaders at the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry answer questions about it. To that end, Rep....
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A school choice advocacy group that has spent more than $6 million in 2026 to defend Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program will be pushing Republican lawmakers and the governor’s office to enact bipartisan legislation to secure a politically sustainable program. The post Arizona’s school choice allies...
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Twenty-five years ago, I thought I understood America. I was 35 years old, Washington bureau chief for The Detroit News, living in an apartment on 16th Street and working out of the National Press Building in downtown D.C. The post At 35, I thought I understood America. Then came Sept. 11. first appeared on Arizona...
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On a rural stretch of land in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, an open meadow filled with bright wildflowers, a memorial grove of trees and a giant boulder marks the spot where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. States Newsroom’s Pennsylvania Capital-Star Editor-in-Chief Tim Lambert recently...
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The state Court of Appeals has rejected efforts to void a 2024 voter-approved immigration measure. The post Appeals court rejects LUCHA’s challenge of immigration measure first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
