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Recent upgrades to Arizona’s credit rating allowed the state to refinance some its debt, saving millions in the process.

The former director of the governor’s energy office said the state is losing a valuable service due to Gov. Doug Ducey’s decision to close its doors.

Arizona’s Department of Corrections did nothing wrong in overseeing a private prison where a riot occurred last month and a breakout left two dead in 2010, Gov. Doug Ducey said today as he announced the state is terminating its contract with company managing the prison.

The deputy director of the state Insurance Department has been named the department's acting director.

Gov. Doug Ducey has disbanded the Governor’s Office of Energy Policy and transferred its remaining employees.

In the face of bottom-of-the-barrel classroom spending, massive cuts to universities and efforts to cut health care for the poor, the Ducey administration has decided what it needs to do is spend money to polish the state’s image.

Henry Darwin leaves behind a record of efficiency and streamlining at the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, which some Capitol observers view as a sign of what to expect as he becomes a top aide to Gov. Doug Ducey.

Gov. Doug Ducey is willing to drink water from the Colorado River in the wake of a toxic waste spill upstream – but only if his environmental director gives him the thumbs up.

Gov. Doug Ducey said Tuesday he won’t take another round of tax cuts off the table even as Arizona schools struggle to recover the hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid they lost during the recession.

A top staffer in Gov. Doug Ducey’s administration is leaving for the private sector after seven months on the job. Ted Vogt, Ducey’s chief of operations, will leave the Governor’s Office later this month for a job in the private sector.