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Senate kills bill to allow concealed weapons in government buildings
A bid to allow some gun owners to bring their weapons into public buildings has suffered a setback, perhaps a fatal one.
Arizona House rejects stiffer illegal immigration penalties
The Arizona House rejected a bill Wednesday that would stiffen sentences for immigrants in the country illegally, after a fervent effort from Republican supporters who wanted the bill to pass.
Capitol Times brings home 13 AZ Press Club awards
Arizona Capitol Times reporters won 13 honors in this year’s Arizona Press Club journalism contest, including three first-place awards.
Senators vote to expand state Supreme Court from five to seven justices
State senators voted Monday to expand the Supreme Court in what one Democrat lawmaker called a “power grab” by Gov. Doug Ducey.
Federal appeals court reinstates Arizona identity theft laws
A federal appeals court has reinstated Arizona identity theft laws that were used to charge hundreds of immigrants accused of using fake or stolen IDs to get jobs.
GOP fundraiser with ties to anti-pot campaign arrested in massive drug bust
Emily Pitha, a fundraiser for establishment Republicans, was arrested this week following a police raid on her Phoenix home that found a meth lab, cocaine, heroin, LSD, ecstasy and the beginning of a marijuana grow-house.
Panel of federal judges to review Tucson elections
The full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will review the constitutionality of Tucson's local elections systems after a three-member panel of the court ruled against it.
Attorneys ask to unseal records in Phoenix freeway shooting
Now that a judge has dismissed charges against the man arrested for last summer's freeway shootings in the Phoenix area, his attorneys are calling on the court to release all previously sealed documents.
Judge throws out primary challenge
A judge this afternoon threw out a challenge to last month’s presidential primary.
Arizona ruling: Police can’t say DUI tests are required
Police in Arizona can't flatly tell drunken-driving suspects that state law requires them to submit to alcohol testing, the Arizona Supreme Court said Tuesday in a ruling that acknowledges that a state-provided form and earlier rulings by courts indicated otherwise.
Arizona faces drug-expiration deadline for executions
The state of Arizona technically had until today to obtain a death warrant before its supply of a crucial lethal injection drug expires.
Budget ties court funding to additional Supreme Court justices
Arizona courts won’t get a million dollars in funding for new probation officers unless Republican legislative leaders get their way and add two new justices to the state Supreme Court under the budget to be introduced today.
