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A new semiconductor plant for repair, cleaning, and coating is going to be coming to Mesa. KoMiCo’s facility is anticipated to create 200 jobs when it opens in 2026, and the announcement comes as there are larger efforts to get a wide variety of aspects of the semiconductor supply chain in the United States. Read More.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that he will be making an announcement Friday morning about the future of his independent presidential candidacy in Phoenix, ahead Read More.

Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is not taking a position on former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his sentencing date in New York, according to a filing sent Friday. Trump’s attorneys asked Judge Juan Merchan last week to push his sentencing, currently set for Sept. 18, until after the November election. In a filing, Bragg’s office said it would “defer to the Court” on whether a delay is necessary to “allow for orderly appellate litigation,” writing they are “prepared to appear for sentencing on any future date the Court sets.” Read More.

Voters will have the opportunity to vote certain measures into law this November. Read More.

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes on Thursday declared the wrong candidate as the winner of the Green Party's U.S. Senate primary in the state. Fontes signed a canvass declaring Mike Norton the winner. Norton's name appeared on the ballot, and he won 180 votes. Write-in candidate Eduardo Quintana won 282 votes, KJZZ reported. Read More.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake accused Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-03) of violating the U.S. Stock Act on Wednesday after the Democrat reported two stock trades, which date to 2019 and 2022, in reports submitted on Tuesday. The U.S. Stock Act requires Congress to report any stock purchases or sales within 30 or 45 days of the transaction. Read More.

Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is taking fire for her new "price-gouging" ban that critics say is little more than communism-style "price Read More.

Increased gun regulation is something that Arizona Democrats have long been fighting for, only to be shut down by Republican legislators. With a chance of winning Read More.

The RealClearPolitics polling average currently places all four states in Trump's column in its "no toss ups" column. Former President Donald Trump has carved out a lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in key battleground states, potentially signaling the end of a surge for the Democrat that occurred in the wake of President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the race. Read More.

Some small businesses in Arizona can now request small loans of $50,000 and under, the governor’s office announced last week. Read More.

The Republican Party of Arizona has secured an agreement with the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to test ballot tabulators used in elections, rather than only testing backup equipment. The agreement states that the board "will inform the Secretary of State that it wants the test to be of at least six of the tabulators and twelve of the accessible voting devices scheduled to be deployed to early voting locations and vote centers." Read More.

A ballot initiative to have tipped service workers get paid the same minimum wage and bump the minimum wage to $18 an hour has been scrapped. The group, known as “Raise the Wage AZ,” is pulling the signatures they submitted to the Arizona Secretary of State’s office, as the petition was challenged by the Arizona Restaurant Association over the number of signatures obtained. Read More.

A record-setting 10 million migrant encounters since January 2021 occurred on Kamala’s watch. How can that fact be overlooked by her supporters? Border Patrol agents aren’t just seeing more of the same; they’re seeing Harris as a sequel that’s even further left than Biden’s original. And the icing on this cake? Her choice of Gov.... Read More.

So far in the fiscal year 2024, the federal government has had to borrow about $5 billion every day. The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday the federal budget deficit was $1.5 trillion for the first 10 months of fiscal year 2024, which covers October through July. Read More.

The Canadian automotive parts builder Magna International will be setting up shop in Mesa, Arizona. Read More.