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A cacophony of voices speaking in Spanish, interspersed with laughter, fills a classroom at Rhodes Junior High School in Mesa. Some students speak halting English, but on occasion they attempt to translate for students who don’t speak any. As the ...

The decision to close the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-powered plant near Page, Arizona has become the first real test of Trump’s promise to save coal jobs.

Advocates for the disability community say the governor’s budget proposal is nearly $50 million short of what disability service providers need to keep up with Arizona’s minimum wage increase next year.

After years of trying, Sen. Karen Fann, R-Prescott, is steps away from getting her proposal to ban teenage drivers from texting signed into law.

The 15-year-long “bromance” between Rep. Eddie Farnsworth, R-Gilbert, and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery may have come to a crushing end right around Valentine’s Day.

Lawmakers want to restore $3.5 million for Arizona’s gifted students.

Despite one lawmaker’s protests that if age 18 is old enough to go to war, it’s old enough to smoke, a House committee gave preliminary approval Thursday to a measure that would raise the legal smoking age in Arizona to 21.

Saying it would help keep underage kids from getting cigarettes from 18-year-old high schoolers, Republican Rep. Paul Boyer wants to raise the legal smoking age to 21.

A legislative panel unanimously approved a bill to make schools provide students with least 50 minutes of recess per day.

HB2260 states that “dormitories or other temporary college address cannot be used to define residency for the purposes of voter registration.” In other words, students who do not have the intent to stay permanently at their dorm addresses cannot register to vote from them.