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Arizona lawmakers next year will be wrestling with what to do in the shadow of a worsening shortage in one of this state’s most vital water supplies. 

A win and a near-win on the other side of the country has some Arizona Republicans hoping they can replicate the same success here, if they make next year's election about kitchen-table issues.

One of the Legislature’s most vocal champions of the partisan Senate audit and a supporter of efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s narrow win in Arizona has been named the chairwoman of the Senate Government Committee.

Senate President Karen Fann is calling it quits after next year’s session. 

Kristen and Whitney Heilesen were on a tube behind their parents’ boat on Lake Pleasant in 2017 when a wave runner crossed the boat’s wake and hit them.  Kristen, who was 10 at the time, suffered a gash on her head. Whitney, who was 13, sustained a minor concussion.  “It ...

Rep. Becky Nutt is stepping down effective Monday.  “It has been my great honor to serve with you, sir, and to be part of your leadership team these past three years. My best regards to you,” Nutt, R-Pearce, wrote in ...

Arizona progressives are ramping up the pressure on U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, hoping to get her support for a federal budget bill that would make major expansions to the social safety net and raise spending on Democratic priorities.

Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s office has announced another indictment accusing someone of voting illegally from Pima County jail last year. 

The field of Republican candidates hoping to take on Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman is starting to take shape, with two who have some statewide name recognition. 

Maricopa County supervisors voted unanimously Monday morning to appoint Liguori to the seat, which became vacant a month ago when Aaron Lieberman resigned to focus on his gubernatorial campaign.