The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office is moving out of the fingerprint-identification era and into iris scanning technology.

An April 14 deadline has been set for lawyers for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the U.S. Department of Justice to complete their attempt to resolve allegations that the sheriff’s office has committed a wide range of civil rights violations.

Three inmates on Arizona’s death row have sued the governor, the state corrections director and those who conduct executions, arguing that a new execution protocol violates their constitutional rights.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Arizona’s immigration enforcement law on April 25, in the last such hearing of the high court’s current term.

The Arizona Senate has approved a bill creating a tax credit for motion picture production in the state.

A group of conservative lawmakers backed by an influential policy think tank are picking a fight with public unions — and the unions are fighting back.

Operation Fast and Furious was the fourth “gun–walking” investigation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the Phoenix area, according to a congressional report released Tuesday.

Senate Majority Leader Andy Biggs, whose son was stripped of his duties as a Gilbert police officer for shooting an unarmed man in the groin while off-duty in 2009, is sponsoring a bill to give disciplined cops a chance to take their cases to court.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s top aide said Tuesday that the sheriff accepts responsibility for hundreds of sex-crimes investigations that were inadequately investigated and Arpaio started working to clear up the backlog once the problem was reported.

Maricopa County officials will get briefed Tuesday on a federal civil rights case against Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office and hundreds of sex-crimes cases that the sheriff’s office didn’t inadequately investigate.