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The next time someone pours paint on, tars-and-feathers or tries to topple a monument somewhere in Arizona, one state lawmaker wants the vandal to face a prison sentence equivalent to child molesters and people who commit manslaughter. Sen. Sylvia Allen, ...

Democratic legislative candidate Felicia French, who just returned from volunteering as a nurse on the Navajo Nation for a month, went back to a campaign that couldn’t look more different than the one she ran in 2018 or expected to ...

Legislative Republicans voted without warning Wednesday to yank $500,000 that Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs planned to use for voter outreach and redistribute it to counties in a move Hobbs decried as “partisan politics at its worst.” Hobbs planned ...

Senate Minority Leader David Bradley will end a 16-year career as a lawmaker this year with a rare accomplishment: having voted for a bipartisan budget. It only took a global pandemic and the absence of two Republicans for the Tucson ...

House Minority Leader Charlene Fernandez led a wartime caucus. Besieged by a majority that alternated between hostility and indifference, a public health crisis and a state in general disarray, the Yuma Democrat did what she could to rally her 28 ...

This was supposed to be the year lawmakers fought hard for sex education legislation, but a controversial start to the session mixed with a pandemic put a pin in that topic at least until 2021. Education advocates were preparing for ...

In a legislative body where long-winded speechification, highly visible interpersonal disputes and general cacophony is the norm, House Speaker Rusty Bowers is remarkably difficult to nail down. His penchant for substituting answers to questions with half-related parables is the stuff ...

Senate President Karen Fann is always searching for silver linings. And while she can only describe the 2020 legislative session as “chaotic,” the Prescott Republican found a silver lining mixed in among the storm clouds. “Ever since I came down ...

A report released Friday by the House Ethics Committee accuses Rep. David Cook of having had an undisclosed relationship with a lobbyist, one that the investigators said is romantic.

One of the 90 bills Gov. Doug Ducey signed this year enshrines in state statute a key tenet of the Obama administration’s signature health care law — that insurers provide health coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. And while legislative ...