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Arizona-based grocer Bashas' has declared a breakthrough in an ongoing defamation lawsuit against a national labor union and its local allies. The breakthrough: A judge has decided to waive a confidentiality agreement that so far has kept some information from creeping into the trial, including what a Bashas' attorney has said amounts to a threat of extortion by a union official.

In late June, the Arizona Supreme Court delivered what could be considered a draw for Gov. Jan Brewer and Republican legislative leadership, who argued over how long the Legislature can withhold bills from the governor after they have been approved. ...

FLAGSTAFF - A group of environmentalists is suing the federal government over a plan to log an area north of the Grand Canyon it says makes no sense economically or ecologically. An administrative appeal of the plan that calls for logging on 9,100 acres of the Kaibab National Forest was rejected late last month.

Joel Fox doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere by repeating an argument that his six-figure donation to the Arizona Republican Party last election cycle was not intended to influence an election.

In the words of his wife, Harold Fish has missed a lot during the three years he has spent in prison for shooting and killing a man on a northern Arizona hiking trail during the spring of 2004. Deborah Fish said the eldest of their seven children embarked on a mission to Cape Town, South Africa, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and their youngest daughter has no recollection a time spending a single day with her father.

While Governor Jan Brewer might not have a budget deal in hand by the morning of July 1, she definitely will have a list of three names and the responsibility of appointing the next Arizona Supreme Court justice.

Whether the Legislature can legally sweep millions of dollars from a program that pays for children's health care may hinge on the fine print of a ballot initiative passed by voters in 2006.

A West Valley man sentenced to 10 years in prison for murder after a violent confrontation on a northern Arizona hiking trail in 2004 will receive a new trial, according to an Arizona Court of Appeals opinion released June 30.

The Arizona Commission on Appellate Court Appointments will continue the process this afternoon (June 29) to determine the next Arizona Supreme Court justice.

Few complaints seem as regular - and fruitless - than those hurled at Arizona elected officeholders alleged to have violated the state's resign-to-run law aimed at keeping officials occupied with the job they have and not the job they want.