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The Arizona Senate is moving quickly to confirm Gov. Doug Ducey’s nominees, including his pick to replace Frank Milstead as head of the Department of Public Safety.

For the fifth time in as many weeks, David Gowan stared down an unpromising scoreboard.

Cancer-stricken firefighters, low-income pregnant women who need dental care and students pursuing careers as teachers or nurses stand to pay the political costs for two state senators who bucked their party leadership nearly a year ago.

House and Senate committees on February 20 narrowly approved two bills designed to roll back a 2016 state law that barred cities from restricting short-term rentals and created what critics describe as a “multi-headed monster.”

Protesters escorted out of a Senate hearing last week announced on Tuesday they will be filing an ethics complaint against the committee chair who ordered their removal.

After her first session working in the Arizona Senate, Roxanna Pitones was hooked.

A proposal to more than triple daily allowances for lawmakers from far-flung counties cleared a key legislative hurdle on Monday.

Republican leadership in the Arizona state Senate has no interest in investigating allegations of sexual harassment made against Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, and Senate Democrats are not pushing the issue.

Senate Democrats today asked Senate President Karen Fann to investigate whether Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita violated the Senate’s sexual harassment policy.

Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, the Scottsdale Republican who became the face of Arizona’s #MeToo movement when her claims led to a fellow lawmaker’s expulsion, sexually harassed a female lobbyist so severely it took a toll on the woman’s mental health and career, the lobbyist alleged in a sworn deposition.