Attorney General Kris Mayes announces a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Apr 24, 2026 that sought to stop the renovation of a commercial warehouse facility in Surprise, Arizona into an immigration detention center. Mayes reached an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to delay the warehouse conversion until an environmental study is completed. (Photo by Gloria Rebecca Gomez/Arizona Mirror)
Agreement stalls immigrant detention center in Surprise
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security won’t start converting a warehouse into an immigration detention center in Surprise until an environmental review is completed, according to a new legal agreement between the agency and Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes.
Mayes filed a lawsuit against...
(Photo by Jim Small/Arizona Mirror)
Mail-in voting initiative fails to make the November ballot
A Democratic campaign to ask voters to enshrine the right to vote by mail into the Arizona Constitution has failed to gather enough signatures to make it on the November ballot.
The political action committee behind the campaign, Protect the Vote Arizona, announced a day before the deadline that its 2,000 volunteers had gathered 439,000 signatures, not enough to withstand...
Students celebrate their graduation from Boulder Creek High School on May 14, 2026, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale. In 2022, 63% of Boulder Creek graduates continued their education after high school, above the statewide rate but below Arizona’s 70% goal. (Photo by Molly Bohannon/AZCIR)
Without sustained funding or coordination, AZ’s push to boost postsecondary enrollment falls short
In 2016, Arizona leaders set an ambitious goal: By 2030, 70% of high school graduates would continue their education after graduation, whether at a university, community college or trade school.
Despite a decade of initiatives and millions of dollars invested...
Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, speaks at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., in December. CMS last month released guidance on how states should implement new Medicaid work requirements. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
States gird for new Medicaid ‘medically frail’ rule
State Medicaid agencies are concerned that many sick and disabled enrollees will lose their coverage because the Trump administration is narrowing the definition of who is “medically frail” enough to get an exemption from new work requirements.
Under the tax and spending law...
Governors Brad Little of Idaho, Mark Gordon of Wyoming, Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Spencer Cox of Utah, Josh Green of Hawaii, Jared Polis of Colorado and Joe Lombardo of Nevada stand together during a news conference in Park City, Utah on June 30, 2026. (Alixel Cabrera/Utah News Dispatch)
Western governors establish multi-state task force to update the region’s transmission lines
A bipartisan group of 11 Western governors signed a letter endorsing the establishment of a multi-state task force to develop a study and action plan to update the region’s energy grid.
The effort was announced Tuesday in Park City during the last days of Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox’s tenure as chair...
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