Special thanks
to our supporters

  • NewsMatch
  • Ernie Pyle
  • Hunter S. Thompson
  • Facebook
  • Dylan Smith
  • JD Wallace
  • Jeanne Pickering
  • Susan Ingram
  • Matt Russell
  • Allison Browning
  • Michelle Crow
  • & many more!

We rely on readers like you. Join them & contribute to the Sentinel today!

Hosting provider

Proud member of

Local Independent Online News Publishers Authentically Local Local First Arizona Institute for Nonprofit News
A marijuana ballot measure topped the list of campaign committee fundraising efforts in 2015 for Arizona.

About $9.7 million poured into state-level political campaigns in 2015, but a ballot measure aimed at legalizing marijuana use for adults accounted for almost $1.1 million of that figure, outraising every other campaign committee during the non-election year. Read more»

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton (left) and Bernie Sanders at the NBC Democratic debate, Jan. 14.

A 35-point lead for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders in a poll of Arizona Democrats means the state will be "flyover country" as the two candidates pursue their party's presidential nomination. With early voting underway for Arizona's March 22 preference election, a GOP pollster said the race is all but over. Read more» 2

Julie Erfle, chairwoman of the Protect Your Right to Vote Committee, addresses a news conference after the group turned in 146,000 petition signatures seeking to force a statewide vote on a sweeping new state election law.

Voter-advocacy groups seeking a referendum to overturn a sweeping new state election law delivered more than 146,000 petition signatures Wednesday to the Secretary of State’s Office. Needing 86,405 valid signatures to qualify for the ballot, leaders said they had more than enough to put the issue to voters in November 2014. Read more» 1