Tucson Politics

  The latest update on close legislative races in Southern Arizona: Hope for victory slips away in other districts targeted by Democrats, but challengers maintain margins in LD17.

  U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani extended his lead over Democrat challenger Kirsten Engel in Arizona's CD6 race, ahead by 2,415 votes after several counties updated their vote tallies Saturday.

  The 9th Circuit vacated the U.S. Department of Education’s denial of nonprofit status to a Christian university in Arizona, reversing an earlier summary judgment decision that had affirmed the denial.

  Democrats will continue their control of the Pima County Board of Supervisors for the next four years, but it remains to be seen if there will still be a single Republican supervisor.

  U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani took back the lead from Democrat Kirsten Engel in Arizona's CD6 race, ahead by 1,560 votes after several counties updated their vote tallies Friday.

  It’s taking far longer than expected in multiple counties across Arizona to count ballots and report election results, which means numerous congressional, statewide, and local races have yet to be called.

  The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld the anti-dark-money law that voters approved in 2022, ruling that it was constitutional to force disclosure of the source of political spending.

  U.S. Congressman Ruben Gallego’s lead over his opponent Kari Lake in the contest for one of Arizona’s U.S. Senate seats shrunk Thursday, as more results slowly trickled in.

  Republicans on Thursday took the lead in a hotly contested northeast Phoenix race for the state House of Representatives, setting the stage for the GOP to increase their majority by two seats when lawmakers return to the Capitol in January.

  A federal judge extended a temporary pause of exploratory drilling as part of a lithium mining project near the Hualapai Tribe’s sacred site after the court found that irreparable harm from drilling is likely.

  I can see a route for Democrats to win all five seats on the Pima County Board of Supervisors next time around. I also see a way for Republicans to win a majority four years hence. That's good. Elected officials should feel accountability to voters and not entitlement to their seats.

  Voters decided the future of school boards across Pima County, and ousted members of the Pima Community College Board on Election Day

  Pinal County, the fast-growing neighbor of Maricopa County, ultimately took more than 24 hours to count all the ballots cast at polling places - and that's unusual, even in Arizona, a state known for its long counting period.

  Updated: Two days after Election Day, Pima County has about 137,000 ballots left to review — an estimate that hit 175,000 at one point Thursday — but the exact number that will be added to the count is still unknown.

  Democrat Kirsten Engel took back the lead from U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani in Arizona's CD6 race, ahead by 209 votes after several counties updated their vote tallies Thursday.

  Updated: U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani held a narrow lead Thursday in his race for reelection against former state lawmaker Kirsten Engel.

  Arizona voters on Tuesday approved a controversial ballot measure to crack down on illegal immigration and fentanyl sales but rejected two initiatives that would have reduced wages for tipped workers and eliminated judicial retention elections.

  A sixth spiritual wife of an Arizona religious leader who sexually abused 10 underage girls in the name of God was sentenced to prison for marrying her underage daughter off to the man who would repeatedly rape the girl for two years.

  Democrats will continue their control of the Pima County Board of Supervisors for the next four years, but it remains to be seen if there will still be a single Republican supervisor.

  Updated: A day after Election Day, Pima County has more than 160,000 ballots left to tally, but the exact number that will be added to the county is still unknown.

  U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani took a narrow lead Wednesday in his race for reelection against former state lawmaker Kirsten Engel.

  Updated: A day after Election Day, Pima County has more than 100,000 ballots left to tally, but the exact number is still unknown.

  Former President Donald Trump, who touted during the campaign he “was able to kill Roe v. Wade,” won a second term in the White House. Simultaneously, seven out of 10 states voted to restore or expand abortion rights, according to early election results.

  Arizona is still waiting on election results it expected to have by Wednesday morning, with some ballots cast at polling places on Election Day yet uncounted, along with hundreds of thousands of early ballots from Maricopa County.

  Americans are about to find out what happens when they cast an informed vote for an uninformed president. Pima County voters seem likely to remain a noble bastion as the storms gather.