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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.

Following the defeat of a high-priority bill that would have given Grand Canyon University a massive property tax break, the school is looking to wade into the world of electoral politics.

A legislative candidate woke up Friday to an anti-Semitic hate message and a pair of swastikas spray-painted on his driveway and on a campaign sign in his yard.

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.