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  Through the end of November, Arizona doctors can get temporary licenses to perform abortions in California for Arizona patients - but so far no Arizona doctors have signed up after the urgency subsided when the state Legislature repealed the 1864 ban.

  Migrants and their advocates welcomed President Joe Biden’s order protecting undocumented immigrants who are married to Americans, an order that will help roughly half a million immigrants will also benefit 50,000 of their noncitizen children under age 21.

  Pinal County Democrats Chair Lisa Sanor is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate a political action committee incorporated as a domestic nonprofit in December 2022 and tied to Republican senatorial hopeful Kari Lake.

  A write-in candidate has filed to run for constable in Justice Precinct 9, which had zero candidates for the office after the incumbent was booted from the ballot. Gerard Acuña filed paperwork to run on June 10 — but in April he tried to run for constable in a different precinct, raising questions about his residency.

  After U.S. Rep. Eli Crane got $900,000 worth of support from Kevin McCarthy when he won his Arizona congressional seat, he was one of eight Republicans who ousted McCarthy. Now Crane's camp has denounced his primary challenger as a “puppet” for the deposed House speaker.

  The Pima County Board of Supervisors left the total county tax rate right where it was for the current (about to end) fiscal year. But taxes were set to end up lower if the board took no action.

  Andrés Cano, a former Tucson-area lawmaker who resigned last year to undertake graduate studies at Harvard, has been named as the city government's director of Federal & State Relations. The position entails obtaining government grants for Tucson — a high-profile post in an election year in which the Biden administration is focused on Arizona.

  A state judge denied multiple motions to dismiss and remand charges against Cochise County supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd, accused of interfering with an election officer in 2022.

  Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has ordered flags at all state buildings to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Thursday, June 20, in remembrance of Scottsdale Police Detective Ryan So, who was killed in the line of duty on June 13.

  Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed into law a $16.1 billion state budget for the upcoming fiscal year on Tuesday, amid threats of a lawsuit from the state attorney general and disapproval from both sides of the political aisle.

  In a packed room, a full slate of candidates vying for two of the county's top positions — Pima County attorney and Pima County sheriff — answered questions during a forum Monday night.

  Two of Donald Trump’s attorneys and a former U.S. Senate candidate for Arizona pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning in connection to the 2020 Arizona fake elector scheme.