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California gas prices have risen “an average of $0.38 per gallon since the event and may increase further” since a Feb. 1 fire shut down the Read More.

The White House has touted January’s 36% decline in border apprehensions—the lowest number of illegal aliens apprehended along the border in almost five years—as the “Trump effect.” That total includes 29,116 apprehended at the border outside of official ports of entry, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. That’s the lowest since May 2020. And that compares to 47,316 apprehensions outside of official ports in December. Read More.

The database reportedly includes millions of supercentenarians and outnumbers the current U.S. population. Read More.

The Scottsdale City Council voted last week to discontinue its diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Read More.

A bill that would return voting to precincts instead of at large vote centers passed the State House of Representatives along party lines on Tuesday, 32-26. If HCR 2002, sponsored by Representative Rachel Jones (R-Tucson), Read More.

State agriculture officials confirmed Tuesday that a dairy farm in Maricopa County tested positive for bird flu – Arizona's first detection of the virus in milk. Read More.

Republicans in Congress introduced a bill to increase penalties for illegal border crossers who evade arrest. Read More.

Karrin Taylor Robson, a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump, announced Wednesday she is entering the Arizona gubernatorial race in 2026. Read More.

Optimism is high among small business owners, but so is uncertainty, according to a new survey from the National Federation of Independent Business. Small business advocacy organization the National Federation of Independent Business has been collecting survey data since 1973, and optimism remains a few points above the 51-year average at 102.8, though it fell by 2.3 points in January. In December, small business optimism reached 105.1 points, the highest it has been since 2018. Read More.

The Arizona State Senate Military Affairs and Border Security Committee advanced Senate Bill 1294, which seeks to provide a prison to the federal government to house Read More.

The average daily number of known gotaways at the southern border has dropped 93% since President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office. Read More.

The Trump administration, with the assistance of X owner Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is shutting down partisan spending under the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), placing a freeze on all the agency’s spending while pursuing plans to shut it completely down — the website has already been taken down. Read More.

Defendants in the “fake electors” case won a victory in court Monday in Arizona. Read More.

In a significant development today, Arizona Republican leaders Kelli Ward and Michael Ward scored a crucial legal victory when a judge ruled in their favor regarding their anti-SLAPP motion in the ongoing electors case. This ruling represents a substantial shift in the legal proceedings that have drawn national attention. Read More.

The State Senate passed a bill on Monday sponsored by Senate President Warren Petersen (R-Mesa) that will require a two-thirds majority for county supervisors, city and town councils to raise taxes. Read More.