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The Attorney General’s Office last month closed a criminal investigation of former Arizona Lottery Director Tony Bouie.

Jay Shi, an application developer at the Arizona Corporation Commission, will be competing in the men’s free pistol and men’s air pistol events at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil as part of Team USA.

Drivers will temporarily encounter construction delays but ultimately end with longer, wider freeways and other improvements to some of the most traveled roads in Arizona under a five-year plan from the Arizona Department of Transportation.

The FBI may be interested in pursuing the deleted texts of a state utility regulator that an Arizona judge has ruled are not public.

It may not be the heady days of a decade ago. But consumer confidence in Arizona now is the highest it’s been since the wheels came off the economy.

The school's tobacco-free policy went into effect July 1 after Northern Arizona University President Rita Cheng announced in May the university would ban tobacco products.

A computer problem -- possibly a hack -- has resulted in more than a dozen candidates for statewide and legislative office facing an unexpected hurdle in their bid to get public financing.

The Arizona Department of Revenue has laid off 52 employees this week, citing budget cuts.

Arizonans would buy nearly $500 million worth of marijuana a year by 2020 if voters agree in November to allow its use here for recreational purposes, according to a new report.

For cities and counties, 2016 represented at least a temporary reprieve in the long-running sweep of road maintenance funds they’ve spent years trying to reverse.