Gov. Jan Brewer, Senate President Russell Pearce and House Speaker Andy Tobin met for an hour Tuesday to discuss some of the biggest issues facing the state during the legislative off-session, but made no decisions on calling lawmakers back to the Capitol for a special session.

Implementing new technology, competition, accountability and effective funding will be the key to preparing Arizona’s children for the complex global marketplace that now awaits them, a panel of education experts said Tuesday.

A Nevada couple has pleaded guilty to trying to vote in Colorado and Arizona in the 2008 election.

The state officially broke ground on a project to transform Washington Street into “Centennial Way” just in time for Arizona to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its entry into the union.

The Fiesta Bowl is seeking the return of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions made to U.S. Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl and other Arizona politicians, according to documents obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

Harold Bell Wright is not a name that trips lightly from contemporary tongues.  Yet, there was a time when this prolific novelist was among the nation’s best-selling and highest-paid authors.

Arizona News Service Editor Jim Small talks about the additional budget cuts that Arizonans could end up seeing in the near future.

Gov. Jan Brewer says Arizona lawmakers should review state laws governing gifts to public officials in light of the Fiesta Bowl scandal, but the former legislator says there are legitimate grounds for gifts of travel and token items of appreciation.

A suburban Phoenix school district has agreed to stop spending money from a special bond while a judge reviews a complaint from the Goldwater Institute that it is violating voter intent.

There was talk years ago that Arizona should build a new State Capitol to keynote its 2012 centennial celebration.