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A federal judge late Friday tossed out a bid to allow initiative organizers to get the signatures they need through an online portal.

Attorney General Mark Brnovich made a last-ditch effort Thursday to get the legal go-ahead to sue the Arizona Board of Regents over what he claims is its illegal methods of setting tuition at the state's three universities.

A federal judge on Tuesday questioned an attorney for the state how he can argue that allowing initiatives to use an online system to gather signatures could lead to fraud when state lawmakers allow themselves and others candidates to use the same process.

The attorney for the Arizona Republican Party says a system that allows people to sign petitions online -- the same one used by political candidates -- is "highly susceptible to fraud.''

The state's chief elections officer said she won't oppose legal efforts to allow initiative drives to gather the remaining signatures they need online.

Attorney General Mark Brnovich says it's up to Gov. Doug Ducey to make the first decision on whether to let initiative circulators gather signatures online despite a state law to the contrary.

Arizona's high court on April 2 upheld a $4 pickup and drop-off fee that led Uber and Lyft to threaten to stop serving Sky Harbor International Airport, one of the busiest in the nation.

Four ballot initiatives today asked the Arizona Supreme Court for permission to gather signatures online given the current challenge to collect during COVID-19.

The way a federal appellate judge sees it, a squeaky dog toy in the shape of a whiskey bottle, manufactured by an Arizona firm, is "surely not the equivalent of the Mona Lisa.''

A prostitution camp in the Marshall Islands provided many of the birth mothers caught up in former Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen’s allegedly illegal adoption business, according to statements attributed to his co-defendant in a warrant to seize his assets.