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While Arizona’s coronavirus-induced recession hasn’t been as bad as expected, another round of business closures are shaking consumer and business confidence, and the state could face a “W-shaped” recession. Before the pandemic, Arizona had a strong, steady economy – the ...

Scottsdale police cited one nightclub in the city for not complying with the state’s reopening guidelines and the state is also cracking down on three establishments owned by the family of Gov. Doug Ducey’s top health advisor.

Maskless partiers lined the streets of Old Town Scottsdale hoping to get into their favorite nightclub on Memorial Day weekend, days after Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey allowed his extended stay-at-home order to expire.

This was supposed to be the year lawmakers fought hard for sex education legislation, but a controversial start to the session mixed with a pandemic put a pin in that topic at least until 2021. Education advocates were preparing for ...

  Walking around the Executive Tower after a legislative session in a pandemic-filled world is a ghost town.  Arizona just hit 2,392 positive cases for a single day, the highest total by far to date, the barricades around the Capitol ...

Gov. Doug Ducey’s honeymoon period that began with his first legislative session in 2015 is long over, as is common with lame duck governors, but future counseling might be able to restore the broken relationship. It is far from uncommon ...

  Former Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen, who was accused of paying women from the Marshall Islands to deliver their babies in the U.S. and of organizing the children’s adoption to American families, today pleaded guilty to four fraudulent charges. ...

  Arizona continues to see a spike in positive COVID-19 cases and health experts say Gov. Doug Ducey sets a bad example by not wearing a mask in public. Arizona reached its second highest day of positive cases June 10, ...

After repeated calls to remove the confederate monument at Wesley Bolin Plaza (near the Arizona Capitol) have fallen short, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has a new plan -- relocate it to the Capitol Museum.

The only African American Republican in the Arizona Legislature told a conservative radio host that the Black Lives Matter movement is a terrorist organization. “This is my thought on Black Lives Matter – first of all, it’s a terrorist organization ...