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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.

Gov. Doug Ducey will get to keep his name off of the court case over his predecessor’s controversial Medicaid expansion program.

Republican leaders in the Legislature plan quick action on a budget deal hammered out with Gov. Doug Ducey.

In the weeks following Doug Ducey's 2014 gubernatorial win, state agencies, departments and commissions prepared a report to provide a snapshot of the organization, from the perspective of its top staff, intended to inform an incoming governor.

A bill that would settle the dispute between the governor and the state’s education chief was held Tuesday in the Senate Appropriations Committee, but the measure’s sponsor expects it to be revived.

Touting it as a campaign promise fulfilled, Gov. Doug Ducey ceremonially signed a bill requiring all high school students in Arizona to pass a civics test in order to graduate.