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State overpaid recipients of federally funded unemployment program millions
Arizona overpaid recipients of a federally funded unemployment program $307 million more than they were entitled.
New figures show job openings rate increases
Thinking of quitting your job? New state economic figures suggest the timing to find better employment may never be better.
Openings for wildlife will be installed in areas of U.S.-Mexico border wall
Openings intended for wildlife will be put into portions of the U.S.-Mexico border wall -- including sections in Arizona -- under terms of a settlement in a 4-year-old lawsuit over how the Trump administration paid for new construction.
Inspectors to check jobsites to ensure workers protected against heat-related illnesses
With temperatures well into the triple digits, state inspectors are going to be out checking jobsites to ensure that employers are protecting their workers against heat-related illness and injury.
Arizona group seeks to outlaw partisan primary elections
A group of business, philanthropic and political leaders have given up on the idea of trying to get Arizonans to adopt a system of ranked-choice voting.
Court to hear arguments on full hand counts in Cochise County
At least one appellate court judge appears ready to let Cochise County do a full hand count of its early ballots. But not of those voted at polling places.
Arizona judge rules no new trial for Hamadeh
Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee Jantzen late Friday turned down a bid by Abe Hamadeh for a new trial to contest his loss in the attorney general's race.
Constitutional attorney will have to pay some of sanctions tied to Lake and Finchem’s lawsuit
Famed constitutional attorney Alan Dershowitz will have to pay a share of the sanctions imposed on the lawyers who brought what a trial judge called a frivolous lawsuit on behalf of failed candidates Kari Lake and Mark Finchem.
Legislation to restrict individuals’ ability to videotape police hits deadend
Legislation to restrict the ability of individuals to videotape police is all but officially dead.
Report: Arizona DCS shorting foster care monitors of information
The Department of Child Safety is not providing some information to local foster care review boards, leaving volunteer board members without data they need to help determine the permanent status of more than 11,000 children in out-of-home care, according to a new state report.
Hobbs tells county attorneys she’s on legally solid ground related to abortion
Gov. Katie Hobbs told 12 county attorneys late Friday she is on legally solid ground in rejecting their request that she rescind her executive order stripping them of their authority to prosecute abortion cases.
Women can obtain birth control pills from pharmacist starting this week with some conditions
It's official: Women in Arizona can now walk into a pharmacy and get birth control pills. Ditto hormonal rings and patches.
