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Governor rejects fast-track for small nuclear reactors at Arizona data centers
Photo via Getty ImagesA measure that would have waived certain state regulations to allow data centers and other large industrial energy users to build small nuclear reactors in rural Arizona was...
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Tensions escalate among Navajo leaders as Nygren finally agrees to address...
Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren’s designated seat within the Navajo Nation Council Chamber remained empty during the State of the Navajo Nation Address for the opening of the Spring Session on April...
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Ansari says Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation case is ‘about more than one...
U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari speaks to reporters on April 22, 2025, at Sky Harbor International Airport following her return from El Salvador, where she and other Democrats tried to visit Kilmar Armando...
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Poll: Belief in false measles claims correlated with lower vaccination rates
A nurse gives an MMR vaccine at the Utah County Health Department on April 29, 2019, in Provo, Utah. The vaccine is 97% effective against measles when two doses are administered. (Photo by George...
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U.S. Senate Dems request report on cuts to Social Security Administration
A Social Security Administration field office in San Jose, California. The Trump administration plans to reduce the Social Security Administration’s workforce from 57,000 to 50,000 and close six of its...
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GOP’s 1,000-voter precinct plan would cost Arizona counties $53 million
Photo via Getty ImagesA Republican proposal to force voters to cast their ballots at neighborhood voting sites would cost Arizona counties more than $50 million the first year and more than $20 million...
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Trump signs education orders, including overhaul of college accreditations
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office on April 23, 2025. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer and...
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Trump’s tariffs ‘upend constitutional order’ and harm state economies, Dem...
President Donald Trump speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, on Feb. 22, 2025. Photo...
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Last-minute deal poised to avert crisis for 60,000 Arizonans with...
Disability rights advocates gather Feb. 26 at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix to urge Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and Republican legislative leaders to remedy a funding shortfall in the state's Division...
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Tech-related tariffs remain uncertain, but prepare for cost hikes, experts say
Foreign-made semiconductors are facing scrutiny and tariffs by the Trump administration, which would cause a ripple effect for manufacturing and price of most electronic goods, experts say. (Photo by...
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‘Really scared’: Parents of kids with disabilities confront Education...
Children engaged in sensory exercises, often used in special education classrooms. (Photo by Getty Images)WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump takes drastic steps to dismantle the U.S. Department of...
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Challenges to Trump’s order on elections rest on a simple premise: the...
Photo by Danielle Prokop | Source NMI have been reading federal lawsuits about voting for the better part of a decade, and I am used to being buried in references to things like 52 U.S. Code §...
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Trump administration extends deadline for schools to meet anti-DEI order or...
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building pictured on Nov. 25, 2024. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom) The U.S. Education Department has agreed to delay for nearly two weeks...
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Why Arizona college students are fighting Trump’s elections executive order
Voters wait in line at a polling location at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, during the Nov. 5, 2024 presidential election. Voters living on or near college campuses are disproportionately...
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Hobbs sides with Axon over Scottsdale voters, signs bill to cancel election...
Axon brought a mobile tactical simulator to the Arizona Capitol on March 4, 2025, as part of its effort to back legislation that would stop a ballot referendum in Scottsdale brought by residents...
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U.S. Education Department to restart defaulted student loan collections
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon speaks at a press conference organized by House Democrats outside the U.S. Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2025. (Photo by...
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Trump endorses both Biggs and Robson in unusual Arizona governor’s race move
Karrin Taylor Robson entered the 2026 governor's race with the endorsement of President Donald Trump. But on April 21, 2025, Trump also endorsed U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, her chief rival for the GOP...
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Tax policy, Medicaid funding cuts could scuttle Republicans’‘big, beautiful...
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson hold a press conference on the Republican budget resolution at the U.S. Capitol on April 10, 2025. The Republican leaders each...
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Arizona’s Mohave County approves security marks on ballot paper for 2026
A person pushes a cage full of Maricopa County mail ballot envelopes at Runbeck Election Services during the March 2024 presidential preference election. Runbeck could provide some, but not all, of the...
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Judges rule Trump can’t defund schools that have diversity policies
Education Secretary Linda McMahon testifies during her Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing on Feb. 13, 2025. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)A federal judge...
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