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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.

Legislation to loosen regulations of probationers working passed the Arizona House Judiciary Committee unanimously on Wednesday. Read More.

After concerns arose last year over the numbers of noncitizens on Arizona’s voter rolls, Governor Katie Hobbs ordered an audit to figure out why there were so many. Read More.

A bill with the goal of making it tougher for cities, towns and counties to raise taxes and fees passed the Arizona State Senate on Monday. Read More.

State Representative Alex Kolodin (R-Scottsdale) proposed a bill Tuesday, a week ago that would stop lawfare and the political prosecutions of opponents. HB 2633 broadens laws against Strategic Legal Actions Against Public Participation (known as anti-SLAPP laws) to include political and religious expression, creates additional remedies against state actors who bring SLAPP suits, and establishes an avenue for post-conviction relief when a defendant asserts that a prosecution was politically motivated. Anti-SLAPP laws prohibit using the courts to suppress the First Amendment, including the constitutional rights of petition, speech, and association. Read More.

U.S. Rep. Young Kim of California is introducing legislation with the goal of making sure members of the military do not have a lapse in public Read More.

President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on Mexico, which are now halted for the next month, triggered mixed reactions in Arizona, as Mexico is the state’s biggest international Read More.

President Donald Trump on Saturday declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Canada border, citing an influx of human and drug smuggling coming from Canada presenting a national security threat to Americans. He did so after a record number of illegal border crossers were reported entering the U.S. from Canada, the greatest number of known or suspected terrorists were apprehended coming from Canada, and northern border terrorist arrests soared under the Biden and Trudeau administrations, The Center Square first reported. Read More.