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Gov. Doug Ducey reached outside the judiciary this morning to tap a lawyer known for his limited government views to serve on the Arizona Supreme Court.

Gov. Doug Ducey took office with two severe problems requiring immediate attention: a massive budget deficit and a K-12 funding lawsuit that threatened to drop Arizona even further into the fiscal hole. He set out to find an early resolution to the first and ended his first year by mediating a solution to the second.

A new water council appointed by Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Wednesday is already being called too business-friendly.

Gov. Doug Ducey is ordering additional funding for more than 30 domestic violence shelters in Arizona.

Gov. Doug Ducey has appointed a new Pima County Superior Court judge.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is touting his efforts to cut regulations and boost the state's business climate at a meeting of pro-business lawmakers from across the nation.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey will be the keynote speaker at the opening day of a meeting of pro-business lawmakers from across the nation.

Gov. Doug Ducey should restore money taken from counties and fix ongoing problems with the state Department of Public Safety before pouring more cash into a new state border security strike force, the state sheriffs association said Monday.

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.