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The Arizona Corporation Commission today approved a small fee on solar customers in a much-watched rate case, shutting down a request from a utility for big changes to solar rate design and net metering.

The Citizens Clean Elections Commission insists that it isn’t subject to Gov. Doug Ducey’s recent executive order banning state entities from hiring contract lobbyists, setting the stage for what may be the next installment of the ongoing battle raging over the extent of the commission’s authority.

Police departments in Phoenix, Mesa and Tucson fell short in a new report that rated departments for policies that ensure that body cameras are a “tool for accountability, not a tool for surveillance” by agencies.

The Arizona Department of Gaming says contributions to the state from tribal gambling revenue will be about $25 million for the quarter that ended on June 30.

An Arizona utility regulator hired an attorney to investigate how outside influences may affect electricity regulation in the state.

The state hopes a new computer program will increase efficiency and allow employees across agencies to work together better.

A panel of Arizona lawmakers gave the go-ahead today to open a coffee shop in the Capitol, ending six months of negotiations involving four government agencies.

Personal letters, along with Fife Symington’s gubernatorial documents, were recently turned over to the Arizona Capitol Museum and its historian, Jack August, who’s working on a biography of the former Arizona governor.

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.