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The U.S. Forest Service has approved one of the two federal permits needed for a proposed open-pit copper mine southeast of Tucson, but an opposition group vowed Wednesday to keep fighting the project.

Gov. Doug Ducey ordered state agencies to take steps to combat wrong-way driving following the latest fatal crash on a Phoenix-area freeway.

A state commission reprimanded a Maricopa County justice of the peace Wednesday for violating state ethics rules during his 2016 election campaign.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a Mexican immigrant who faced deportation after he was convicted of having consensual sex with his underage girlfriend.

The Justice Department is looking to use its control over coveted grant money to nudge so-called sanctuary cities into greater cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities.

The former head of Arizona's social services agency has landed a job with the Trump administration.

Voters who sued the commission that re-drew Arizona's congressional and legislative district maps won't appeal a ruling throwing out their case.

Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye has said a proposed deal has been reached to keep an electricity-generating reservation coal plant open until 2020.

A shuttered museum that once housed thousands of minerals, crystals, rocks and fossils will open its doors for the first time in years after backers in the Legislature succeeded in reviving the location.

A Tucson school district employee has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly leaving threatening voicemail messages for U.S. Rep. Martha McSally.