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The former director of the Department of Economic Security is dropping the libel lawsuit he filed against the state after he was fired.

Trial judges cannot keep voter-proposed initiatives off the ballot just because the description doesn't mention every provision, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Monday, a conclusion that should make it easier to put future initiatives to voters.

The federal judge hearing criminal charges against former executives of Backpage.com is refusing to step aside from the case, saying her marriage to state Attorney General Mark Brnovich is irrelevant to the matter.

The question of how far residents of the Pascua Yaqui reservation have to travel to cast an early ballot this year will depend on what a federal judge concludes was the reason for moving the site in the first place.

A major whiskey manufacturer wants the U.S. Supreme Court to stop an Arizona firm from producing a dog toy that the company's attorneys say associates its "image of sophistication'' with "juvenile bathroom humor.''

Residents of the Navajo Nation won't get extra time to cast their ballots and be sure they are counted.

Attorneys for Tucson are asking the Arizona Supreme Court to void a 2018 law that seeks to force the city to scrap its odd-year elections. In new court filings, attorney Jean-Jacques Cabou said the measure approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature ...

The state's top prosecutor says Gov. Doug Ducey is acting illegally in telling police to ignore restaurants violating certain state liquor laws.

An attorney representing several Navajo Nation residents asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to give reservation dwellers more time to submit their ballots and have them counted.

Two appellate judges on Monday questioned whether it was legal for a trial judge to give Arizonans an extra 2 1/2 weeks to register to vote.