1. News
  2. AZPM News - Local, independent journalism from the NPR 89.1 newsroom
  3. Politics and Government

Politics and Government

Border Patrol agents apprehend migrants outside of Sasabe, Arizona, in July 2024.

Number of migrants entering Arizona lowest in 3+ years

Jul 16, 2024 New federal data shows that the number of migrants crossing the southern border into Arizona has fallen to fewer numbers than the state has seen since February 2021, keeping with the trend across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Border wall fencing with concertina wire attached in Douglas, Ariz. January 2021.

Shadow Wolves may see better career mobility under new bill

Jul 15, 2024 Arizona Senators Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema introduced new legislation that would both improve border security and the retention of Shadow Wolves agents.
Arizona Corporation Commission building in downtown Phoenix.

Chispa Arizona launches $200K campaign to raise awareness about Corporation Commission election

Jul 15, 2024 According to a poll funded by Chispa Arizona, a majority of Latino voters are unfamiliar with what the state utility regulator does.
A locker door is visible in the foreground as a student walks in the distance at Marana High School in September 2019.

AZ Department of Education under investigation for how it approves school voucher spending

Jul 11, 2024 The Arizona Attorney General's office sent a letter to the department on July 1 informing them of the investigation.
1975 Zoo Staff, Barry Ames, Joanna Gradillas, Marc Bruns, Angela Stewart, Alex Flores, Mike Flint, Ms. Boyle, Ann Dery, Sandra Hein, Gale Ferrick, Al Gallego, Shanda Martin, Kathy Kuehn, Garland Godbehere.

"Taking the camel to the drive-in?" Historian David Leighton's history of the Reid Park Zoo

Jul 10, 2024 Also on Arizona Spotlight: Visit the Word of Mouth Print Space; celebrate imagination at the Library's Megamania!! Festival; and meet the founder of the Naco Wellness Initiative.
This photo accompanied a July 10, 2024 social media post in which congressman Raul Grijalva announced he has finished cancer treatments "for now."

A thinner Raul Grijalva announces he's "finished" cancer treatment

Jul 10, 2024 12 term representative is working with doctors on returning to Washington D.C.
The Arizona State Legislature in Phoenix.

Arizona for Abortion Access sues Legislative Council over abortion ballot description

Jul 10, 2024 The Legislative Council used the term "unborn human being" in its description of the abortion initiative.
The Colorado River, just north of the Navajo Bridge in Northern Arizona.

Arizona congressional delegation introduces $5 billion tribal water rights legislation

Jul 8, 2024 The legislation would ratify a settlement agreement that was approved by each of the tribes in May.
Walking down the road near the Bear Canyon Trail in the Sabino Canyon Recreation Area, February 2018.

Public meeting will discuss new Sabino Canyon visitor center

Jul 8, 2024 The Thursday meeting will include a first look at initial plans for the redesign
Itzel waits in Nogales, Sonora, hoping to get a chance to ask for asylum in the U.S., for herself, her husband and their two young daughters. She asked that we don't show their faces due to fears for their safety after running from threats in Mexico City.

Border Patrol continues to discard bulk of migrants’ belongings

Jul 8, 2024 In the first part of a two-part series, Danyelle Khmara explains one of the challenges migrants who cross the border into Arizona are facing — as more people are quickly removed from the country under Biden’s recent limit on asylum.
NASA’s ECOSTRESS instrument on June 19, 2024, recorded scorching roads and sidewalks across Phoenix where contact with skin could cause serious burns in minutes to seconds, as indicated in the legend.

NASA map shows temperatures up to 160 degrees on Phoenix streets, sidewalks

Jul 6, 2024 Surface temperatures that hot can cause severe contact burns within minutes or seconds.
This undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a humpback chub in the Colorado River basin in Grand Canyon National Park in Ariz. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says on Wednesday, it has wrapped up its environmental review of a plan to help the humpback chub and other protected fish in northern Arizona.

US agency to fight invasive bass threatening humpback chub, other protected fish in Grand Canyon

Jul 4, 2024 It is the latest move in a battle to keep non-native smallmouth bass and green sunfish at bay in an area of the Colorado River below the Glen Canyon Dam.
Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Arizona.

Grijalva says Biden should get out of Presidential race

Jul 4, 2024 He is the second House Democrat to call for a new nominee.
Former Arizona Attorney General and Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard speaks surrounded by boxes of sheets with signatures that Make Elections Fair Arizona need to get their measure to qualify for the ballot at the state Capitol on Wednesday, July 3, 2024.

Arizona group aiming to institute open primaries submits signatures to get on the ballot

Jul 4, 2024 The group says they’ve gathered 584,124 signatures, far above the 383,923 threshold they needed to meet to get the measure on the ballot.

Why "Breaking Bread" is a different approach to political discussion.

Jul 3, 2024 Also on Arizona Spotlight: How art can help with in-hospital healing; Luis Alberto Urrea on how his literature career began; and "Stories That Soar!" considers the meaning of love.
A crowd rallied together to support Arizona for Abortion Access as the organization submitted more than double the signatures needed to place the right to abortion access on the November ballot on Wednesday, July 3, 2024 in Phoenix.

Arizonans rally for reproductive rights: Record-breaking signatures to secure abortion access on ballot

Jul 3, 2024 Arizona for Abortion Access gathers over 823,000 signatures, doubling the required number, to place the right to abortion on the November ballot.

Selected Archive Filters

Government,
Politics
Back to Top
AZPM is a service of the University of Arizona and our broadcast stations are licensed to the Arizona Board of Regents who hold the trademarks for Arizona Public Media and AZPM. We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples.
The University of Arizona