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Sep 13, 2012

Arizona farmers rally in Washington to urge action on stalled farm bill

Sixteen Arizona farmers left their crops and cattle behind Wednesday and traveled to Washington with the Arizona Farm Bureau to rally at the Capitol for the stalled farm bill.

Sep 13, 2012

Arpaio the last of Arizona’s immigration trio

Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio is gearing up for what he expects will be the toughest of his five re-election campaigns.

Sep 13, 2012

Arizona Supreme Court: No reserved water rights for state trust land

Settling a decades-old battle, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that millions of acres of state trust land in Arizona have no federally reserved water rights.

Sep 12, 2012

Goldwater Institute attorney co-authoring immigration book with Jeb Bush

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is a working on a book about one of the Republican Party's most contentious issues: immigration.

Sep 12, 2012

Opening set for new Border Patrol station in Naco

The U.S. Border Patrol will hold its grand opening Tuesday for its new station in Naco. The station will be named after Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

Sep 12, 2012

First group of delayed young deportees approved

Just three weeks after the Obama administration started accepting applications from young illegal immigrants seeking to avoid deportation and get a work permit, the government already has approved some of the roughly 72,000 applications the government has received.

Sep 11, 2012

Reservation status of land near Glendale upheld

An Arizona tribe with plans to build a casino and resort on property it purchased near Glendale scored a key victory Tuesday when a federal appeals court ruled that the U.S. Department of Interior rightfully awarded reservation status to a section of the land.

Sep 11, 2012

Ex-Fiesta Bowl lobbyist agrees to help in probe

A former Fiesta Bowl lobbyist who pleaded guilty to failing to disclose costs from a 2008 trip that sent nine lawmakers to Boston has agreed to cooperate with investigators and testify in grand-jury proceedings and in any possible trials.

Sep 11, 2012

Stanton: Ethics task force will promote openness, accountability

A committee tasked with evaluating the city’s ethics standards will promote transparency, openness and accountability, Mayor Greg Stanton said Monday.

Sep 10, 2012

Phoenix as political convention host city? It could come down to state’s politics

As a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, Mayor Greg Stanton can imagine Phoenix playing host to a 2016 convention. And he doesn’t particularly care which one.

Sep 10, 2012

Border Patrol halts Mexico flights

The U.S. government has halted flights home for Mexicans caught entering the country illegally in the deadly summer heat of Arizona's deserts, a money-saving move that ends a seven-year experiment that cost taxpayers nearly $100 million.

Sep 10, 2012

Mexico arrests suspect in Fast and Furious killing

Mexican federal police announced Friday that they have arrested a suspect in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, the slaying at the center of the scandal over the botched U.S. gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious.

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