Maricopa County

A 9-year-old boy reportedly died while under the custody of the Arizona child welfare agency just days after his father was jailed on a drug charge in December, 2022.

A Maricopa County detention officer has been arrested for attempting to smuggle drugs into the jail system.

A former Arizona Supreme Court judge will lead an independent investigation into how ballot printers at Phoenix-area polling sites became defective.

Lawyers for Arizona election officials say Republican Kari Lake didn’t offer evidence to back her claims of widespread, intentional misconduct on Election Day in challenging her loss to Democrat Katie Hobbs in the governor’s race.

On the first day of trial in her election challenge Wednesday, Lake's lawyers alleged small-bore problems that didn’t appear to show the widespread, intentional misconduct she would need to prove.

Officials in Maricopa County have become adept at batting down slanted, false or nearly false claims about how they ran last week’s election.

A printing malfunction at about one-quarter of the polling places across Maricopa County slowed down voting Tuesday.

The Justice Department is sending monitors to 24 states in an effort to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws in the midterm elections.

A federal judge in Arizona says he hopes to decide by Friday whether to order members of a group to stop monitoring outdoor ballot drop boxes in the Phoenix area.

Officials have increased security around ballot drop boxes after a series of incidents involving people keeping watch on the boxes and taking video of voters after they were apparently inspired by lies about the 2020 election.