Phoenix New Times
Phoenix New Times is a local alternative news outlet focused on in-depth coverage of Phoenix and the broader metro area. Its editorial scope blends hard local news with arts, culture, and lifestyle reporting, aiming to capture both the civic and cultural pulse of the city.
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 388
- Latest publication
- Oct 1, 2026
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- Top 500K sites
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- Jul 3, 2026
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Fontes, Kolodin trade jabs, then nearly real punches, in feisty debate (opens the original)
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After a fiery debate between the two candidates for Arizona’s Secretary of State, incumbent Adrian Fontes captured the night’s pugilistic event in one perfect phrase: “American politics has been a bloodsport for 250 years.” Throughout the nearly hour-long debate, Democrat Fontes and his opponent, Republican Rep. Alexander Kolodin threw metaphorical jabs at each other. But at point point, the tension nearly spiraled into an all-out-brawl. In his one-minute-long opening statement at Wednesday nigh
Local author imagines a dystopian Phoenix of the future in new novel (opens the original)
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Phoenix-based author Kelly Lydick presents a dystopian vision of the Valley in her new eco-futurism science fiction novel, “Everything That’s Left Behind.” The story takes place after a near civilization-ending environmental disaster known as “The Great Drought.” We follow Nichola Rodale, a member of the new government’s resource control task force, as she navigates her moral obligations and beliefs, all while trying to uncover what actually happened to her scientist father before he died. Ripe
Counties look to end chance for justice for the wrongfully convicted (opens the original)
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Just after the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, four people who’d spent time behind bars for crimes they didn’t commit asked Arizona to make amends. Just minutes earlier, a new state law had gone into effect with the new year that created a process for them to get compensation for their wrongful convictions and incarcerations. They were the first of a rash of claims under the new law. Very quickly, the $3 million set aside in a special fund created by the legislation was accounted for. Despite the
Marana’s Troubled Prison Is Set to Become an ICE Detention Center (opens the original)
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This story was originally published in a partnership between LOOKOUT and The Intercept Rumors were spreading for weeks in the spring of 2022. At Arizona State Prison–Marana, the talk centered on an employee of Management and Training Corporation, or MTC, the Utah-based for-profit prison company that ran the facility. A clerk at the commissary, Alicia Simmons, had been carrying on an illicit sexual relationship with an incarcerated person. In April, the situation exploded onto the radars of top p
Phoenix real estate market is balanced, according to a new report (opens the original)
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When was the last time you went out on a sit, Phoenix? Maybe it’s time to put. That coffee. Down. Coffee is, after all, for closers. If you’re looking to buy a home — or sell one — you’d better be ready to duke it out. The Phoenix real estate market is a balanced market, according to a new report by Consumer Affairs. What does that mean? It means neither buyers nor sellers have any real power over the other. When it comes to negotiating prices, neither will have the upper hand. “But wait, there’
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