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Sheriff Joe Arpaio has raised $725,000 over the last month in his bid for a seventh term as Maricopa County's top law enforcer.

The state agency responsible for basic funding for maintaining and constructing K-12 public school facilities in Arizona has a new director.

Voters on Nov. 8 will decide ballot measures in nine states that would expand legal access to marijuana.

Arizona's rebounding state parks system plans to more than quadruple the number of rental cabins at parks statewide, one of several major projects on the drawing board to improve and expand parks facilities less than a decade after the system struggled to keep parks open during the Great Recession.

Gov. Doug Ducey has appointed three new Maricopa County Superior Court judges to fill vacancies created by retirements.

Navajo Nation member Davis Filfred prefers casting a ballot the old fashioned way at a polling place. But heai??i??s worried he may have to make a three-hour round-trip drive this November to make that happen.

Farmworkers in the nationai??i??s largest agricultural state will be entitled to the same overtime pay as most other hourly workers under a law signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown.

Sexual harassment, bullying and other misconduct are rampant among employees at national parks across the country, including at iconic sites such as Yosemite, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, a congressional committee was told Thursday.

The state plans to provide two counties with partial funding for sheriff's deputies to work on Arizona's new border strike force and those counties and two others would also get money to pay for costs stemming from border-related crime.

Officials voted Wednesday to pay $4.4 million in legal fees to attorneys who won a racial profiling case against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, marking yet another expense in a case that's projected to cost taxpayers $72 million by next summer.