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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Monday he wants the Legislature to approve "tens of millions of dollars" in new funding for a border security force made up of state police, a move intended to address border smuggling even as immigration and terrorism worries emerge as potent 2016 political issues.

Gov. Doug Ducey says a law he signed earlier this year indexing income tax rates for inflation was an important first step to his goal of cutting incomes taxes every year he's in office.

A group of about 25 demonstrators chanted “Ducey, we reject your racism” outside the Governor’s Tower this morning in a protest against Gov. Doug Ducey’s call for an “immediate halt” to the resettlement of all refugees in Arizona. Ducey is ...

Gov. Doug Ducey has called for an “immediate halt” to the federal government’s settlement of all refugees in Arizona, joining a host of Republican governors who have in some way sought to reject new Syrian refugees in the wake of last week’s devastating terrorist attack in Paris.

Gov. Doug Ducey has ordered the Arizona Department of Public Safety to create a border strike force comprised of state troopers who will help law enforcement agencies along the Mexican border respond to crimes.

After 40 years, the last of the State Energy Program’s employees have been fired or reassigned as Gov. Doug Ducey and his administration shuttered the program to cut down on overhead costs. The Arizona Republic reports (http://goo.gl/8Ka1mT) that the five ...

Gubernatorial aide J.P. Twist will take a leave of absence from the Ducey administration to run the campaign for Proposition 123, the 10-year, $3.5 billion K-12 funding plan that will go before the voters in a May 17 special election.

A panel of hand-picked gubernatorial appointees has blocked state employees from making payroll deductions to Planned Parenthood. Gubernatorial press aide Daniel Scarpinato said Tuesday the move was made after committee members decided the organization was too “controversial” to be on the authorized list of hundreds of charities available to state workers.

Gov. Doug Ducey called the Legislature into special session Wednesday evening to approve a settlement that will bring an end to five years of litigation over K-12 school funding by putting an additional $3.5 billion into Arizona’s education budget over the next 10 years.

Lawmakers have been summoned to the Capitol Monday and Tuesday to be briefed on a deal on K-12 funding in advance of a special session later in the week.