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Sen. T.J. Shope, R-Coolidge, is fed up with another Senator who has been absent for the majority of this legislative session and will show it with an ethics complaint.

State Rep. Walt Blackman publicly declared that the people of the northern Arizona legislative district he shares with Sen. Wendy Rogers don't agree with the Twitter post she made this weekend about the murder of 10 people in Buffalo by a white supremacist.

Republican lawmakers are asking Gov. Doug Ducey to sign a bill they concede has no practical effect. 

State senators voted Tuesday to forever bar the state Department of Health Services from requiring students to be vaccinated against Covid to attend school.

A bill that forgives student loan debt of up to $100,000 for some graduating veterinarians sits idle in the Senate but has a promising future.  

Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill Friday to limit the governor’s power to implement a state of emergency for “public health” reasons.

Relief may finally be on the way for motorists who get snarled in traffic in the corridor between the state's two largest cities.

While signature challenges and people withdrawing their candidacy after filing have led to some shakeups already, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge has just forestalled what could have been a major shakeup in Legislative District 27. 

Republican opponents of Covid restrictions celebrated this week as Gov. Doug Ducey signed several bills limiting entities from imposing restrictions such as mask and vaccine mandates in the future. 

On April 26, Ducey signed House Bill 2101, which repeals language passed in 1998 that was meant to increase competition in the electricity sector.