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The longtime sheriff of metropolitan Phoenix fired up the crowd at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Thursday by reminding them of Donald Trump's pledge to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Out of the chaos in Cleveland comes yet another story of discouragement and deflation, as one veteran GOP activist from Arizona now contemplates leaving political activism altogether.

The Arizona Legislature's budget staff says tax collections rose by 5 percent in the budget year that ended June 30 and were nearly exactly as forecast.

Three candidates for Arizona Corporation Commission vowed Wednesday to force utilities to disclose the money they spend trying to elect the people who regulate them and the rates they can charge.

The board overseeing Arizona's early childhood development program has chosen the woman who championed the 2006 voter initiative creating the agency as board chair.

All 58 of Arizona's Republican National Convention votes have been cast for Donald Trump. The vote tally came despite vows by some anti-Trump delegates to force a formal count of the delegates or to walk out.

Arizona has a new state veterinarian.

Arizona is sending its first group of inmates to a privately operated prison as part of an expansion project meant to alleviate prison crowding.

State archivists are going through hundreds of boxes of previously missing files from the administration of former Gov. Fife Symington, who was forced from office in 1997.

This year, the Republican side of the Arizona Corporation Commission race defies the conventional wisdom of using Clean Elections funds and teaming with other candidates to pool resources.