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The myriad boards and commissions tasked with regulating and licensing professionals across the state could soon find themselves, along with much of their authority, at the Arizona Department of Administration.

The Western Governors' Association plans five workshops to discuss forest and rangeland management practices.

The state utility regulator appointed earlier this year by Gov. Doug Ducey wants to strip his new agency of some of its powers and give them over to others directly under the control of the governor.

A looming showdown between the Citizens Clean Elections Commission and a regulatory review panel that’s trying to rein in the commission’s authority will wait until next year after both sides agreed to delay any final decisions until after the Nov. 8 election.

There is no more consistent theme to Gov. Doug Ducey’s one-and-a-half years in office, and no area where he’s been more aggressive, than deregulation

State archivists are going through hundreds of boxes of previously missing files from the administration of former Gov. Fife Symington, who was forced from office in 1997.

As Republicans gather in Cleveland, three Arizona governors say they know what it will take for Donald Trump to unite the party behind him: Focus.

The power of the executive branch, a force to be reckoned with under any gubernatorial administration, has become noticeably more pronounced since Doug Ducey moved into the Governor’s Office.

Several months after attributing the defeat of a key piece of legislation to “special interests,” Gov. Doug Ducey ordered the termination of state entities’ contracts with outside lobbyists, a move that was both praised as a good-government reform and criticized ...

Gov. Doug Ducey ordered the unilateral termination of state agencies’ contracts with outside lobbyists, calling the practice a system of cronyism that benefits lobbyists and special interests at the expense of citizens.