The former Arizona State Prison in Marana sat abandoned until purchased by Management and Training Corporation (MTC), a Utah-based private prison operator. (Photo by Adrian O’Farrill/TucsonSentinel.com)
EXCLUSIVE: Kelly, Gallego urge DHS to halt planned ICE detention facilities in Surprise and Marana
Arizona U.S. Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego are urging the Trump administration to put a halt to two planned detention facilities in the state as opposition to them grows and questions continue to mount, according to a letter exclusively obtained by the Arizona Mirror.
“Given the scale and pace of these efforts and the Department’s review of detention projects nationwide, we urge the Department to stop...
Clockwise from left: Gov. Katie Hobbs, U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, U.S. Rep. David Schweikert. (Photos by Gage Skidmore and Cronkite News Service)
Katie Hobbs sitting on $7.2M war chest, outraising both GOP challengers combined six to one
In her bid for a second term, Gov. Katie Hobbs is sitting on a campaign war chest that is six times what both of her Republican challengers have combined, and she raised nearly twice as much as Andy Biggs and David Schweikert did in the first three months of the year.
In the first quarter, the Democratic incumbent hauled in nearly $2.1 million, thanks to a fundraising operation that...
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Republicans want to give individual legislators the power to order arrests
State Rep. Tony Rivero thinks the Arizona Legislature doesn’t have enough power to arrest people who don’t show up when lawmakers demand.
The Peoria Republican wants to change that by giving the Arizona Senate president, the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives or any committee chairman in either chamber the power to unilaterally...
A view of the damaged B1 bridge, a day after it was destroyed by an airstrike, on April 3, 2026 west of Tehran in Karaj, Iran. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
A single vote kept Trump’s Iran war authority intact as Hegseth says U.S. remains ‘locked and loaded’
WASHINGTON — The approval gap on President Donald Trump’s war in Iran narrowed slightly Thursday in the U.S. House, when a War Powers Resolution gained a handful of votes, though still falling just short of passage.
The effort to force Trump to seek congressional authorization before further action in Iran failed...
President Donald Trump tours the assembly line at the Ford River Rouge Complex on Jan. 13, 2026 in Dearborn, Michigan. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Trump says he’s going after Medicaid fraud, but is mostly targeting ‘political enemies’ in blue states
The Trump administration is taking aim at what it calls rampant fraud in state Medicaid programs. But by focusing almost exclusively on Democratic-led states, it has handed ammunition to critics who say it mainly wants to embarrass its political enemies, not save taxpayer dollars.
In announcing earlier this month that Vice President JD Vance would lead...
(Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Voters face a crowded 2026 ballot as legislators push back against citizen-led initiatives
More than a third of state ballot measures that voters will be asked to consider this year relate to democracy, with questions on voting rights, election processes, redistricting and similar issues.
“It’s the redistricting fights that are really getting heated after the Trump administration began pressuring...
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