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Gov. Doug Ducey this week extended a prison re-entry and rehabilitation program that was slated to go offline due to a lapse in legislative authorization on July 1, giving some relief to criminal justice advocates who worried that a door ...

House Minority Leader Charlene Fernandez led a wartime caucus. Besieged by a majority that alternated between hostility and indifference, a public health crisis and a state in general disarray, the Yuma Democrat did what she could to rally her 28 ...

The Second Regular Session of the 54th Legislature is a tale of riches to rags. What began six months ago with optimism – about a strong economy, the possibility for the fulfillment of promises to educators, perhaps even bipartisanship – ...

Six months ago – or an eternity, depending on how you count – before the coronavirus, before the most recent wave of public demonstration against police violence, before the David Cook scandal or talk of legislative leadership races, Gov. Doug ...

In a legislative body where long-winded speechification, highly visible interpersonal disputes and general cacophony is the norm, House Speaker Rusty Bowers is remarkably difficult to nail down. His penchant for substituting answers to questions with half-related parables is the stuff ...

Oro Valley Republcian Rep. Mark Finchem confirmed his intent to unseat House Speaker Rusty Bowers from leadership next year, the opening salvo in what could prove to be a bruising contest between two ideological wings of the GOP.

Public health experts and government officials have for months told Americans living under the thumb of a global pandemic to follow a simple edict: stay home. Stay home to steer clear of a highly contagious respiratory illness that has killed ...

Efforts by activists to pressure policymakers into defunding or otherwise disassociating from police have manifested in calls for legislators to return campaign contributions from the political arms of police unions. Political action committees for police unions have spent tens of ...

The Arizona House of Representatives is set to hear potentially dozens of bills this week -- including a measure to shield businesses from legal liability if a patron or employee gets COVID-19 -- even as the Senate sits recessed, poised to finalize last week’s adjournment motion and end the session.

The plan hatched by some of the Legislature’s most vocal conservatives to reopen the state’s economy hinges on a concurrent resolution that would overturn the governor’s emergency declaration.