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Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill that would help expedite the approval process for parents of some students in the state school voucher program.

A bill creating a memorial site honoring the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots who died in the Yarnell Hill Fire last year has been signed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer.

Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill that aims to make it easier to prosecute people who help someone commit suicide.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill that would allow optometrists to prescribe certain drugs.

Sharing lewd images of a person without his or her consent will soon by a felony in Arizona now that Gov. Jan Brewer signed legislation outlawing the crime.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is set to act on more bills sent to her by Arizona lawmakers as they wrapped up the 2014 legislative session last week.

The Governor’s Office withdrew three of its nominees to an advisory board that oversees Arizona’s Superfund program after Salt River Project objected that they may have conflicts of interest regarding an ongoing lawsuit against the utility giant.

Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill intended to prevent the Citizens Clean Elections Commission from regulating traditionally funded candidates, potentially sparking a lawsuit against it.

Candidates can officially stop worrying about keeping multiple campaign committees for the primary and general elections, as well as a host of other unforeseen regulations stemming from last year’s campaign finance overhaul.

Hundreds of people rallied around the Capitol in February urging Gov. Jan Brewer to veto a controversial religious liberties bill, and the crowd broke out in elation when the governor announced she had broken out her veto stamp for the first time this year to knock down the bill.