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Hanging around a roadway median, for whatever reason, could soon land you in jail.

Cancer-stricken firefighters, low-income pregnant women who need dental care and students pursuing careers as teachers or nurses stand to pay the political costs for two state senators who bucked their party leadership nearly a year ago.

Insurance companies in Arizona will soon have to cover mental health care the same way they cover other medical care.

A proposal to double the state's gasoline tax is in trouble. On Thursday, several Republican lawmakers told Rep. Noel Campbell, R-Prescott, they would not support his proposal for a three-step increase in the levy that eventually would bring it to 36 cents a gallon.

In a legislative session that saw a record amount of bills filed in both chambers, some measures promised before or even during the session never saw the light of day.

Silent death has come for about two-thirds of the 1,842 bills and resolutions introduced this year in the Legislature.

In 2018, at the height of the Me Too movement, investigators for the House of Representatives dismissed a lobbyist’s allegations of harassment against a state representative because the lobbyist sent friendly text messages after the alleged incident occurred.

The state Senate on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to legislation that eliminates the possibility you could be arrested if you drive faster than 85 miles per hour.

State senators on Tuesday rejected the one tax break sought by Gov. Doug Ducey in his State of the State speech.

Gov. Doug Ducey’s attempt to pass a law allowing a judge to order people deemed a potential threat to themselves or others to forfeit their weapons and submit to mental health evaluations is effectively dead in the Legislature.