Arizona’s cannabis industry records second consecutive year of declining sales
Illustration via Getty ImagesA cratering medical marijuana industry and a softening recreational market dragged total marijuana sales in Arizona down nearly 10% in 2024, breaking a three-year streak of...
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Photo via Getty ImagesRepublicans in the Arizona Legislature want to use county sheriff’s departments to force people to comply with their subpoenas, and for anyone who speaks in front of a legislative...
View ArticleFederal appeals court temporarily allows Trump to freeze multibillion-dollar...
Solar panels in Damariscotta, Maine. (Photo by Evan Houk/ Maine Morning Star)WASHINGTON — The legal battle over a Biden-era climate program ramped up late Wednesday when an appeals court halted a...
View ArticleCiscomani urges GOP leaders to protect Medicaid despite voting for budget...
U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani in April 2023. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0An Arizona Republican congressman who voted for a budget resolution that all but mandates cuts to Medicaid said in a...
View ArticleLawsuits take aim at voter-approved transit projects worth billions
Photo via Valley MetroOpponents are turning to legal challenges to try to block or delay major public transit expansions — even after voters approve them. Recent lawsuits in Arizona, Tennessee and...
View ArticleU.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...
View ArticleTrump 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...
View ArticleAnsari 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...
View ArticleResearchers say moms and babies are ‘going to get hurt’ by federal pregnancy...
In the village of Noatak in Alaska’s Northwest Arctic region, Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) data showed the community had lower breastfeeding initiation and six-week breastfeeding...
View ArticleTrump 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...
View ArticleGOP lawmakers send bill mandating ICE cooperation to Hobbs’ likely veto
Public domain government photoRepublican lawmakers hoping to turbocharge President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign have successfully pushed through a proposal that would force every law...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleArizona’s cannabis industry records second consecutive year of declining sales
Illustration via Getty ImagesA cratering medical marijuana industry and a softening recreational market dragged total marijuana sales in Arizona down nearly 10% in 2024, breaking a three-year streak of...
View ArticleGOP bill would allow sheriff’s deputies to arrest people who ignore...
Photo via Getty ImagesRepublicans in the Arizona Legislature want to use county sheriff’s departments to force people to comply with their subpoenas, and for anyone who speaks in front of a legislative...
View ArticleFederal appeals court temporarily allows Trump to freeze multibillion-dollar...
Solar panels in Damariscotta, Maine. (Photo by Evan Houk/ Maine Morning Star)WASHINGTON — The legal battle over a Biden-era climate program ramped up late Wednesday when an appeals court halted a...
View ArticleCiscomani urges GOP leaders to protect Medicaid despite voting for budget...
U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani in April 2023. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0An Arizona Republican congressman who voted for a budget resolution that all but mandates cuts to Medicaid said in a...
View ArticleMilitia founder wrongly identified as ICE agent in viral window-smashing video
Left: Michael “Lewis Arthur” Meyer in an April 15 livestream from the Oklahoma Capitol building. Right: An ICE agent in New Bedford, Mass., uses an axe to smash a car window during an apprehension of a...
View ArticleLawsuits take aim at voter-approved transit projects worth billions
Photo via Valley MetroOpponents are turning to legal challenges to try to block or delay major public transit expansions — even after voters approve them. Recent lawsuits in Arizona, Tennessee and...
View ArticleU.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...
View ArticleTrump 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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