The Arizona House of Representatives on Thursday passed two bills that would prohibit forms of distracted driving. One of the approved bills, sponsored by Republican State Representative Noel Campbell, targets people who use their cellphones while driving. The other bill, sponsored by State Senator J.D. Mesnard, more broadly targets “distracted driving.” Governor […]

Not a pending Supreme Court decision, nor pledges by several Arizona county attorneys to hold off on prosecuting medical marijuana cases, nor Noah Blackwell’s state-issued medical marijuana card were enough to stop a state trooper from hauling Blackwell to Maricopa County’s Fourth Avenue jail last month for possessing a vape […]

Republican U.S. Senator Martha McSally plans to attend a campaign fundraiser on Thursday, April 18, with former Phoenix Suns owner Jerry Colangelo and former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove, according to an invitation for the event obtained by Phoenix New Times. The fundraiser is scheduled to take place at […]

More major changes are coming to downtown Phoenix, as a city transit center gets transformed into a new development comprising more than 1.1 million square feet. The $231 million project was approved by Phoenix City Council on April 17. It’s happening at 300 North Central Avenue, current site for the […]

Watchu know about 4/20? Probably some pot jokes or even that April 20th happens to be a major holiday for marijuana lovers everywhere. And you’d be right, at least about that latter fact. Each year, 4/20 is a big deal for stoners, medical marijuana users, or anyone else friendly with […]

For the third time in three years and the second this legislative session, Arizona Democrats tried Tuesday to force a vote on the Equal Rights Amendment in the state legislature. Once again, Republicans blocked them, along with any real debate on equal pay or other salient aspects of gender equity, […]

Update, April 16, 2019: Robert John Interval was convicted today in Maricopa County Superior Court for second-degree murder even though the body of his missing girlfriend, 34-year-old Christine Mustafa, was never found despite a massive landfill search in 2017 by Phoenix police that cost almost $1.5 million. Sentencing for Interval […]

Standing on a stage outside Gilbert’s town hall, conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer invoked the unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota married her brother. “She’s a terrorist,” Alexandra Foster shouted from the audience of more than 100, whose constituents sat on lawn chairs and held up signs supporting […]

After missing more than 30 consecutive meals, Aamir Sheikh finally ate breakfast again: cereal, milk, and a hard-boiled egg. The night before, on April 1, Sheikh broke a three-week hunger strike over his prolonged detention at an immigration detention center in Eloy, he told Phoenix New Times in a phone […]