Arizona Government

Your Vote 2022: Election Wrap-Up

A look at the November 8 general election

Your Vote 2022: Breakdown of Judicial Candidates

Voting on judicial candidate races, how your ballot is counted, and how candidates move to the middle.

Your Vote 2022: Gubernatorial Candidates Kari Lake and Katie Hobbs

This week, excerpts from interviews with Arizona gubernatorial candidates Kari Lake (R) Katie Hobbs (D).

Cochise County in court over case regarding elections head

A venue change was granted.

Arizona governor's aide resigns after controversial tweet

The post was made hours after the shooting at a Christian school in Nashville that left three children and three adults dead.

Threats against former Cochise County Elections Director come to light

Marra has testified to Congress about her experience.

Hobbs vetoes the ban on sales tax for food

Hobbs said she believed the bill wouldn’t eliminate costs passed onto consumers.

FBI investigates rehab scams targeting Indigenous community

Bogus organizers defraud the government out of money meant to help people at their most vulnerable.

No deal on meet and confer with Sierra Vista firefighters

The city council voted 5-2 against the plan.

Rep. Raul Grijalva reintroduces newly named Environmental Justice Act for All Act

The legislation was proposed on World Water Day.

Court: Arizona governor not required to carry out execution

The newly elected Democratic governor whose office said the state isn’t currently prepared to carry out the death penalty.

Former Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly dies at age 75

He died Wednesday morning in New Mexico.

One room schoolhouse gets law enforcment help

Apache Elementary gets help with migrants crossing the Cochise County campus.

Supreme Court seems split in Navajo Nation water rights case

The justices weighed a dispute involving the federal government and the Navajo Nation’s quest for water from the drought-stricken Colorado River.

Dementia’s dangerous rise leads legislators to ask up to $500,000 for Alzheimer’s

State legislators are pushing a bill to build a state dementia plan.

Arizona Republican legislators announce formal opposition to ranked choice voting

The Arizona Freedom Caucus wants to preemptively prohibit any use of ranked choice voting to decide city, state, county or federal elections.

Feds want justices to end Navajo fight for Colo. River water

The tribe doesn't have enough water and says that the federal government is at fault.

Grijalva asks US Attorney General to look into Cochise County elections move

Grijalva wants a federal investigation into the decision to hand off elections work to the County Recorder.

Arizona governor blasted for plans to defy execution order

Hobbs has said executions will not be carried out until Arizonans can be confident the state isn’t violating the law.

Cochise County getting more border enforcement vehicles

The money comes from an amended agreement with the state.

Was California consulted in recent Colorado River negotiations?

Leaders in other states disagree with that characterization.