The Latest Breaking News from Arizona

In the months leading up to the U.S. midterm elections, lawyers for Democrats and Republicans are already squaring off in a wave of lawsuits challenging state rules on how to vote and the counting of ballots.

Proliferation of new legislation comes in response to false claims about the 2020 election

More than 6,000 state legislative seats are up for election this year. Republicans and Democrats are spending tens of millions in a battle to shift the balance of power in these chambers.

Planned Parenthood is resuming abortion services in the state in response.

The Lake campaign has repeatedly branded Ms Hobbs a “chicken” for opting out of a debate with the election denier

Chinese immigrants settling in Arizona were doing so in the shadow of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, the U.S. government’s first race-based immigration policy. Both Chinese and Mexican immigrants faced racism despite being instrumental to the workforce.

Phoenix police have made an arrest in connection with a burglary at the campaign headquarters for Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for governor

Arizona’s attorney general has agreed not to enforce a near-total ban on abortions at least until next year

GOP candidate Kari Lake stages press conference to accuse reporters of publishing ‘defamatory’ statements after Katie Hobbs condemned her opponent’s rhetoric after burglary

Briefing comes as Phoenix police announced arrest of suspect in break-in at Democratic headquarters

The Republicans on a rural Arizona county board who wanted to conduct a full hand count of all ballots in the upcoming midterm vote clarified they will follow Arizona state law allowing only partial hand counts following a harshly worded letter from the state’s election director who threatened legal election