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Rep. Steve Pierce wasn’t looking for something to fill his days when he stepped up to fill the vacant Legislative District 1 House seat.

Last week, the state struck down a decades-old law prohibiting education around safe homosexual lifestyles. What led to the removal of the so-called “no promo homo” law 28 years later?

The House voted today by a wide margin to strike down the state’s “no promo homo” law and render a lawsuit against the decades-old provision moot.

The amendment would strike the portion of the state’s law on AIDS instruction that prohibits the promotion of a homosexual lifestyle and safe homosexual sex.

Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk has been targeting medical marijuana patients using extracts – until recently anyway. We’ll actually have that story for you this week.

The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to appoint the legislative veteran to former Rep. David Stringer’s Legislative District 1 House seat today.

Arizona Public Service’s parent company received federal grand jury subpoenas for documents related to the 2014 elections at least a month before APS released similar documents to the Arizona Corporation Commission.

The House worked through a record-setting agenda on the floor today - not.

After nearly a year of resisting calls for his resignation, David Stringer has left the House of Representatives. Who will take his place?

Former Senate President Steve Pierce easily secured a place on the shortlist to replace former Legislative District 1 Rep. David Stringer today. Steven Sensmeier and former Secretary of State Ken Bennett also won nominations by the Yavapai County Republican Committee.