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Heading into the 2022 governor's race, the political fault lines surrounding education are moving quickly, with a new focus on parent influence in schools and curriculum items like "critical race theory."

The governor's chief medical adviser said November 23 Covid infections could be cut sharply if people would do more to protect themselves, including wearing masks. 

Doug Ducey was one of the stars of the Republican Governor's Association showlast week at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix. 

Without additional details, "line of duty" doesn't tell the public much about how a uniformed federal officer died. And the recent use of "line of duty" to describe Covid deaths is coming at a time that vaccines are widely available, but vaccine mandates face resistance from some law enforcement officers, including pushback from the union representing Border Patrol agents. 

Gov. Doug Ducey's stock appears to be on the rise once again after strong Republican showings in a pair of gubernatorial races on November 2. 

A battle between OSHA and the Industrial Commission of Arizona probably won’t produce concrete changes to Arizona workplace safety enforcement anytime soon, but it could enter uncharted legal territory and serve as an opening act in the larger conflict that’s ...

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is moving to strip Arizona officials of their ability to regulate worker safety in Arizona because of the state's failure to immediately adopt emergency Covid health care rules to protect workers. 

Republican governors are gathering Wednesday at the border in Texas to criticize the Biden administration's policies.

A key federal official is telling Gov. Doug Ducey he cannot use Covid grant dollars to penalize schools that impose mask mandates.

An attorney for Gov. Doug Ducey is asking a judge to toss a bid by a labor group to order him to immediately seek to recoup extra federal jobless benefits that were denied to them when the governor pulled out of the program.