Rick Renzi News

U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick has drafted legislation to designate Sedona as a National Scenic Area, a title supporters say could further boost tourism in the area.

The Verde River Basin Partnership will conduct its annual meeting at 2 p.m. Monday at the Jerome Fire Department along Highway 89A.

Federal prosecutors in Arizona have added several new charges to their public corruption indictment against former Rep.

In August, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar visited Oak Flat, a boulder-strewn patch of land scattered with manzanita bushes and oak trees, about 70 miles east of Phoenix.

Former Arizona Rep. Rick Renzi pleaded not guilty this week to five new corruption charges the government has filed against him, including conspiracy to commit insurance fraud and racketeering The new charges bring the total against the former Republican lawmaker and his associates to 49.

The Justice Department has expanded its case against former Rep. Rick Renzi , adding five new corruption charges.

What does movie director and accused pedophile Roman Polanski have in common with scandalous former Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi ? No, Renzi's never been accused of having sex with a 13-year-old at Jack Nicholson's house.

Video of Tuesday's fatal crash involving a school bus and a car shows the bus driver tried to avoid the oncoming car, veering onto the shoulder before being struck head-on. The Arizona Department of Public Safety also identified the driver of the car as 51-year-old Marana resident Raymond Kane.

A judge has rejected former Rep. Rick Renzi's attempts to prevent a majority of the evidence gathered from wiretaps and search warrants, as well as interviews with his former aides, from being admitted in his corruption trial.

Lawyers for indicted former Rep. Rick Renzi claim recently released Bush W.H. docs prove he was targeted in 2006.

Compromise is possible on a proposed copper mine in southeastern Arizona that's thought to contain the largest undeveloped deposit of high-grade copper in the world, Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar said after touring the site on Friday.

Mining on federal lands is always a controversial issue, pitting environmentalists against businesses, politicians against politicians.

Compromise is possible on a proposed copper mine in southeastern Arizona that's thought to contain the largest undeveloped deposit of high-grade copper in the world, Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar said after touring the site on Friday.

After the US Attorney for Arizona was dismissed by the Bush administration in December 2006 as part of a purge of multiple US Attorneys, the two Republican senators from that state quickly recommended that a Hopi attorney, Diane Humetewa, be nominated as his replacement.

Using the apparatus of state to target your political enemies. One might even call it un-American:The dismissal of U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias of New Mexico in December 2006 followed extensive communication among lawyers and political aides in the White House who hashed over complaints about his work on public corruption cases against ...

Rachel reports on the latest revelations to come out of the U.S. Attorney firings scandal.

WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will visit Arizona this month to get a firsthand look at the proposed site of a huge underground copper mine near Superior.

A phone call from the top lawyer in President George W. Bush's White House may have prompted the Department of Justice to violate its own policy of silence and speak out about a criminal investigation targeting then-Congressman Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., according to deposition transcripts released Tuesday.

With William Jefferson's conviction yesterday on 11 public corruption counts, the former Louisiana Congressman may be looking at 20 years in prison, although his attorney plans to appeal.

A 42-year-old Tucson man is facing two potential life sentences after being convicted Friday of robbing two convenience stores two years ago.