Arizona

Maricopa County Attorney’s Office found violations in the Phase 2 closure committee as the board prepares an Oct. 6 vote on shuttering campuses.

Division One threw out Gabriel Horcasitas’s 10.5-year term after ruling an AI recreation of slain Chris Pelkey made sentencing fundamentally unfair.

Central Arizona Project managers outline a plan letting metro utilities trade voluntary conservation for underground Water Bank access as shortages bite.

One person was hospitalized with serious injuries and a suspect was detained after reports of gunfire near Ina Road and the I-10 frontage road Thursday afternoon.

BLM, Park Service and Fish and Wildlife nonrenewals hit about 30% of the Tucson nonprofit’s permitted barrels; removals due by late October.

Justice Kagan denied ADCRR’s last-ditch stay bid; court-ordered takeover of inmate medical care is set for Oct. 19 after 14 years of litigation.

Southeastern Arizona’s rock-spire monument is one signature from becoming the state’s fourth national park and the nation’s 64th.

Supervisors grill Justin Heap as early voting nears; County Attorney Mitchell says most flagged cases were registration errors, not citizenship fraud.

Newly released records show Speaker Steve Montenegro asked federal prosecutors in July to probe bribery and fraud claims after AG Mayes declined state charges.

Arizona’s secretary of state rivals spar over early ballots, ID rules, and election-night results in a heated Clean Elections debate.