Paul Weich News Today

Arizona Sen. Shawnna Bolick was one of two Republicans who voted to repeal a 1864 abortion ban. Her husband, Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick, had ruled in its favor. Both are on the ballot in November.

Last week, a Democratic state lawmaker told her colleagues on the Senate floor that she planned to get an abortion in the coming days and she hopes her story will aid efforts to put abortion access on the ballot in November.Sen. Eva Burch (D-Mesa) took the microphone near the end of the Arizona Senate’s floor session on March 18 and told lawmakers that she was pregnant, the

In the months leading up to last week’s vote on Kyrene School District’s $161 million bond and $8.5 million annual capital override, officials on several occasions called out the community

What has become an unseemly tradition in Ahwatukee politics has struck the Kyrene School District bond election campaign.

Four separate Justice Court rooms currently spread throughout Mesa and Gilbert are moving into a newly built courthouse at Baseline and Mesa roads over the next month.

After the attorney general last year refused to defend a new law making it a crime to take video of police officers in some situations, the law’s author is back with a proposal that would require the state’s top attorney to defend every law.

The Nov. 8 General Election for the three legislative seats representing northern and western Chandler also will a battle of the sexes of sorts as an all-male Republican slate of

Tuesday’s election set the ballot for the November races in the two legislative districts covering Chandler and left a longtime Chandler official out in the cold.

Ruth Jones’ bid to upset incumbent Mayor Kevin Hartke in the Aug. 2nd election is a true underdog affair while the race to fill three other seats on City Council

The number of women serving on Chandler’s City Council is likely to double or more after this year’s election.