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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.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey faces a deadline today to sign or veto a bill requiring law enforcement agencies to keep the names of officers involved in shootings secret for two months.

Gov. Doug Ducey sought to split the middle in the contentious debate over Common Core, calling on the Arizona Board of Education to review and possibly replace parts of the K-12 education standards, but rejecting their wholesale replacement.

Gov. Doug Ducey named five new members to the Arizona Board of Education, perhaps the most eagerly awaited appointments the new governor has to make, thanks the board’s role in adopting the controversial K-12 education standards known as Common Core.

Gov. Doug Ducey came a step closer to fulfilling a pledge from his State of the State address when a Senate committee approved his proposal to create an inspector general who will search out waste, fraud and corruption in state agencies.

The Governor’s Office is refusing to make public a whistle-blower complaint the Department of Child Safety’s general counsel made against the agency’s newly appointed director Greg McKay.