
For the 2023 city election season, the Prescott mayor’s race is unopposed, with just incumbent Phil Goode running for the position.

Four candidates are seeking three four-year terms on the Prescott City Council. The seats are currently held by Councilmembers Clark Tenney, Steve Sischka and Cathey Rusing. Tenney and Sischka have chosen not to run for re-election, and Rusing is running as an incumbent.

The wording of a decision by the Arizona Supreme Court to let Kari Lake pursue one remaining election claim may make it difficult, if not impossible, for her to prove.

A recount of votes has confirmed Democrat Kris Mayes narrowly defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh in the Arizona attorney general’s race, one of the closest elections in state history.

The apparently losing candidate for attorney general is asking a judge to block the secretary of state from declaring Kris Mayes the winner.

Democrat Kris Mayes will be the next attorney general of Arizona, pending a recount.

Governor-elect Katie Hobbs laid out her priorities for the next four years, promising to work with the Republican-controlled Legislature to solve problems — but with a political warning to those who choose a different path.

The dynamics of the state and local election process with votes still being tallied into the early hours Wednesday, and likely continuing throughout the week, changed the course of one local Governing Board race and prompted an incumbent in another to congratulate two new board candidates.