Restaurants can operate at only 50% capacity and staff and patrons have to wear masks under a new executive order.
Read More »Ducey imposes more restrictions on restaurants, patrons
Virus infections soaring, DHS expects positive results next week
Arizona's rate of new infections of COVID-19 is skyrocketing.
Read More »Health club chain loses challenge to Ducey’s executive order
A judge on Tuesday rebuffed a bid by a locally owned chain of fitness clubs to remain open while it challenges the order by Gov. Doug Ducey shuttering all of them through July 27 — if not longer. In an ...
Read More »Prison transition program allowing for early release expires 
Gov. Doug Ducey this week extended a prison re-entry and rehabilitation program that was slated to go offline due to a lapse in legislative authorization on July 1, giving some relief to criminal justice advocates who worried that a door ...
Read More »New push on to remove Confederate monuments from state land
New pressure is building on Gov. Doug Ducey to reverse his defense of having monuments to the Confederacy on state-owned property. In a letter July 1, James McPherson III, president of the board of directors of the Arizona Preservation Foundation, ...
Read More »Governor says he’ll protect right to assemble
Gov. Doug Ducey is defending indoor political rallies with thousands of people without masks even as he admitted the only way Arizona will stop the upward trend of infections is if people mask up and stay home.
Read More »Ducey lets Federal aid begin to flow to cities, towns
With a possible lawsuit looming, Gov. Doug Ducey on Wednesday finally let go of some of the federal cash he got for local communities. But not all of it.
Read More »Ducey keeps restrictions in Arizona on drug Trump takes to prevent virus
Gov. Doug Ducey won't rescind his order denying Arizonans access to a drug to prevent COVID-19 that is now being used by President Trump.
Read More »Axed COVID-19 researchers reinstated 
Bowing to a barrage of bad press, the Arizona Department of Health Services on Thursday reinstated the group of COVID-19 researchers it fired May 4.
Read More »Ducey ignores recommendation for release of terminally ill prisoner 
A terminally ill prisoner whose recommendation for commutation has gone unsigned by Gov. Doug Ducey is also getting lousy care from prison doctors, his family and advocates allege.
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