The increasingly rancorous race between Democrat Ron Barber and Republican Jesse Kelly for Arizona’s vacant 8th Congressional District seat goes before a live audience Wednesday night for the first time.

The state of Hawaii has verified President Barack Obama’s birth records to Arizona’s elections chief after a nearly three-month back and forth that Arizona officials said could have ended without the incumbent’s name on its November ballot.

A white supremacist likely will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a federal judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison Tuesday for a 2004 bombing that wounded a black city official in suburban Phoenix.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is leading a state delegation that will travel to Germany and France for a trade promotion trip that runs into early June.

The fight against border drug trafficking must address reducing demand, federal and Arizona law enforcement officials told a congressional panel in Phoenix.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio sent one of his deputies to Hawaii to accompany an official in his volunteer posse that is investigating President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, despite earlier saying no taxpayer money was being spent on the probe.

Lawyers for Arizona Republicans challenging the state’s new legislative district map are dropping their effort to have a federal court draw an interim set of districts for use in this year’s elections.

An Arizona state official says he can oversee a fair election despite playing a role in Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix says it welcomes lawsuits filed by other Catholic dioceses and various Catholic organizations to challenge a federal mandate for health plan coverage for birth control.

A white supremacist is set to be sentenced Tuesday in a 2004 bombing that injured a black city official in suburban Phoenix.