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Wildfires both leave scars in their wake that threaten the rural communities around them with deadly floods and threaten both wildlife habitats and human drinking water that depends on healthy watersheds.

For most of this session, lawmakers have been working with stakeholders of various interests to cobble together legislation that addresses Arizona’s water woes, but concerns over conservation and money have slowed progress. 

While signature challenges and people withdrawing their candidacy after filing have led to some shakeups already, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge has just forestalled what could have been a major shakeup in Legislative District 27. 

Republican opponents of Covid restrictions celebrated this week as Gov. Doug Ducey signed several bills limiting entities from imposing restrictions such as mask and vaccine mandates in the future. 

On April 26, Ducey signed House Bill 2101, which repeals language passed in 1998 that was meant to increase competition in the electricity sector. 

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation is giving House Speaker Rusty Bowers a “Profiles in Courage” award for his refusal to go along with efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Arizona. Bowers, who is ...

Two Republicans joined Democrats Wednesday to kill a scaled-down state budget proposal.  

A budget was introduced into the House today and could be coming to the floor later this week. 

Two lawsuits have already been filed challenging a new voting law Gov. Doug Ducey signed on Wednesday. 

Arizona voters might be deciding in November whether to bump up sales taxes to patch up fire districts’ budgets, if a measure working its way through the House passes.