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More than 1,000 inmates were admitted to the Arizona Department of Corrections without a fingerprint record or criminal history between 2007 and 2014, according to records from the agency.

A bygone Capitol area restaurant is getting a new menu — cookies. The Phoenix Rescue Mission bought the decades-old building that had housed Oaxaca Restaurante y Cantina in July with the intent of expanding its vocational development programs, including its mail-order cookie business.

Today the U.S. House of Representatives voted on H.R. 4038, the American Security Against Foreign Enemies (SAFE) Act of 2015.

A group of about 25 demonstrators chanted “Ducey, we reject your racism” outside the Governor’s Tower this morning in a protest against Gov. Doug Ducey’s call for an “immediate halt” to the resettlement of all refugees in Arizona. Ducey is ...

Planners and officials should focus increasingly on public transportation options such as pedestrian routes, buses, light rail and passenger trains as use of these forms of travel has increased across the state since 2006, according to a new report.

More than 150 children on Indian reservations across Arizona were given the opportunity this year to leave their failing schools for better performing ones.

Arizona’s 2008 law mandating that all employers use the federal E-Verify system has fallen through the cracks on every level of enforcement, raising questions as to whether the system can be successfully implemented nationwide, as several Republican presidential candidates suggest.

Arizona was once home to many thriving mining communities, but the only proof of many of these towns’ existence lie in the State Archives.

Arizona’s Latino voting bloc is being slowly built and jostled into action, but it’s not quite a tour-de-force just yet, according to Latino voters groups and policy analysts.

Petra Falcon is a woman of stories. Stories not just her own, but of the thousands of people she has connected with over the more than 20 years she has spent as a community organizer in Arizona, working with farmworkers, in border towns, and rallying the Hispanic community around civic engagement.