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Jan 1, 2025 · Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby can’t escape being tried on charges of election interference and conspiracy in connection with his refusal to certify the 2022 election results, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

Jan 9, 2025 · The median home price in the state has increased substantially over five years. Real estate brokerage Redin calculated the median price in the state at $281,000 in November 2019.

Dec 27, 2024 · Despite some legal hiccups, the measure went to voters and passed with 61.61%. Following the statewide certification of the 2024 election, the ACLU, Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood Arizona filed a lawsuit and set their sights on seeing the 15-week ban struck from the books.

Dec 13, 2024 · The measure still has the same language as the version she vetoed about landlords being required to pass along the tax savings to tenants. But it also includes a provision that says if there’s a civil suit, presumably filed by an unhappy tenant who believes he or she is being overcharged, the burden is on the landlord to show that none of the rent being charged is attributable to the levy ...

Nov 10, 2024 · Kari Lake is not going to be the governor of Arizona – at least not unless she runs again in 2026 and wins. Without comment the Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday turned away her last-ditch effort in her bid to argue that she, and not Katie Hobbs, was elected governor in 2022. That leaves undisturbed

Nov 6, 2024 · In Maricopa County, officials estimated on Tuesday night that they still had about 700,000 early ballots to process. Typically, in the first round of results at 8 p.m. on Tuesday night, the county releases the results from all early ballots cast up to the Friday before Election Day.

Nov 19, 2024 · The new Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, second from left, shakes hands with new Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, right, as Hobbs' husband Patrick Goodman, left, looks on after an oath of office ceremony at the state Capitol in …

Dec 30, 2024 · Both parties set their sights on easing Arizona’s housing problems in 2024, but even with bipartisan efforts, came up short. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were hoping to address high housing costs and shortages in the state’s housing stock.

Dec 9, 2024 · What’s next? Before we can answer that, we need to take stock of what we had and did not have in place in 2024. We had the excitement! We had a sense of shifting momentum in Arizona, and we had significant funding focused on flipping the Legislature from a Republican majority to a Democratic majority.. We had the message to the people of Arizona: “Our plans for affordability will give you ...