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A Scottsdale business owner and a retired judge are challenging the legality of the just-approved tax hike on the wealthy to provide more dollars for K-12 education.

People don’t know who their legislators are. At least, that’s the contention of Joel John, the Republican irrigation business owner who unseated Rep. Gerae Peten in Legislative District 4.

Arizona is not a blue state – yet.

Democrats picked up one new seat in the state Senate, but are headed into the 2021 legislative session with potentially less power to stop Republican legislation.

A judge on Thursday removed the last legal hurdle to certifying the results of the election and handing Arizona's 11 electoral votes to Joe Biden -- assuming there's no appeal.

Gov. Doug Ducey said Wednesday he has seen no evidence of "widespread fraud or irregularity'' in the conduct of the Arizona election.

Top officials of the 15 Republican county committees want a special session -- and soon -- to order an audit of the machinery used to count ballots. But only in Maricopa County.

Attorney General Mark Brnovich is charging a firm that circulated petitions for the successful Invest in Ed ballot measure with violating state laws in how it paid some of its circulators.

With the tally of votes now showing Joe Biden winning Arizona, the state Republican Party and its allies are trying last-minute legal tactics to keep that from happening.

Christine Marsh declared victory in a north Phoenix state Senate race Friday, confirming that legislative Democrats will gain one net seat from an election where they spent millions to flip both chambers.