Nearly a year after the Arizona Department of Water Resources said it won’t approve new supply certificates for groundwater use in the Pinal Active Management Area, local groups are pushing back on the agency’s findings and developers have found a way to keep building homes without the need for certificates.
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Arizona utility regulators again reject clean energy rules
Arizona's utility regulators have rejected new rules that would have drastically boosted the use of renewable energy for the second time in a year.
Read More »Ducey summer camp program preps plans 
Gov. Doug Ducey’s office is gearing up to release an application form for schools or other community organizations that’s aimed at helping kids catch-up from Covid impacts.
Read More »Pressure builds on Brnovich to act 
Once derided as “useless” by figures near Donald Trump for shooting down election conspiracy theories, Attorney General Mark Brnovich has maintained a cautious silence as he faces another round of calls for action from his own party related the 2020 ...
Read More »E-Qual updates flummoxing 2022 candidates
Problems in the system for candidates to qualify for the ballot with online signatures may leave some of them out of the 2022 race. And the people most at risk of failing to qualify could be those who don’t have ...
Read More »Child abuse investigation backlog soars
Once again, the Department of Child Safety has fallen behind on child abuse and neglect investigations.
Read More »Audit finds DEQ not keeping up with testing, standards
The state agency responsible for protecting the environment has failed to perform many required tasks in monitoring groundwater for pollution -- in some cases for 29 years.
Read More »Nursing board’s slow pace danger to public
The State Board of Nursing is slow in handling complaints, according to a new state report, a practice it says that could endanger public safety.
Read More »ADOT refunds vehicle fees to 200K car owners
Did you just get a check for $32 from the state? It's not a gift from your friends at the Department of Transportation to you and about 200,000 others.
Read More »State scraps investments over Ben & Jerry’s Israel policy
State Treasurer Kimberly Yee announced Tuesday she is selling off all of the state's notes it holds in loans to Unilever, which follows the announcement that the company will no longer sell its Ben & Jerry's brand ice cream in Israeli-occupied territories.
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