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In a legally questionable move, Gov. Doug Ducey is ordering the Department of Revenue not to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales taxes against certain types of businesses that the agency -- and even a court -- says are owed to the state.

Gov. Doug Ducey vetoed two bills by fellow Republicans on Monday that asked the federal government turn over public lands to the state. The GOP lawmakers said they wanted to use Arizona's federal public lands as a new stream of revenue for the state.

Gov. Doug Ducey may have just cost more than 200,000 Arizonans a shot at keeping the health insurance they received through the Affordable Care Act, though they won’t know for sure until the U.S. Supreme Court rules this summer.

Gov. Doug Ducey signed a series of election reforms Monday that included measures Democrats say limit voter participation and open the doors to heavier spending to influence elections by deep-pocketed donors.

Gov. Doug Ducey has signed bills into law that will give speeders twice as many chances to neutralize their tickets; take away the ability of cities and counties to regulate plastic bag use and grant landlords new rights to kick out the guests of tenants.

Raul Hector Castro, Arizona's only Hispanic governor and an American ambassador to three countries, died Friday. He was 98. Family spokesman James Garcia said Castro died in his sleep in San Diego, where he was in hospice care.

The Legislature may have rebuffed Gov. Doug Ducey in his request for a statewide inspector general position, but that doesn’t mean he can’t follow up on his plan to root out waste, inefficiency and abuse without it.

Gov. Doug Ducey suggested Thursday that the funding cuts just imposed on the state’s three universities might be permanent. And he would not rule out future reductions in state aid.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey plans to attend his first meeting of the board that oversees the state's three public universities.

Gov. Doug Ducey has signed a bill requiring abortion providers to tell women they can reverse the effects of a drug-induced abortion.