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Republican leaders in the Arizona House and Senate are moving ahead with plans to draft their own budget proposal by the end of the year, reasserting legislative authority they say they lost during recent years.

Two legal organizations intend to sue state Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman over the state’s school voucher program on behalf of a military parent who claims her family isn’t receiving funds in a timely manner.

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously today to give indicted County Assessor Paul Petersen a chance to challenge his suspension and opened the door for the county attorney to investigate him.

There's nothing unconstitutional about sending a juvenile to prison for the rest of his life for a series of arson fires in Tucson, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled.

Invest In Ed was thrown off the ballot in 2018, but now it’s coming back and educating groups want to increase the sales tax to help pay for schools — even though the group previously opposed a regressive tax.

The activists behind last year’s Invest in Education Act are considering a comeback – they’re eyeing a sales tax hike, an idea they have routinely rejected in the past as regressive and detrimental to the poor.

Paul Petersen, the recently suspended Maricopa County Assessor, today pleaded not guilty for the second time in two weeks on allegations that he ran a child smuggling ring.

A new ballot measure aims to make voting easier and take big money out of politics, but its backers, who have been against dark money in the past, won’t commit to turning down dark money for their own campaign.

The Arizona Senate and fired Democratic policy adviser Talonya Adams are headed back to court next week after failing to come to terms on her job reinstatement by the court-ordered deadline of Oct. 31.

A century after he wrote his mother to tell her he was coming home and half a century after his death, Marine Private First Class Glenn Niner Wormwood made it to his final resting place.