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A legislative panel shied away from fully endorsing a request to add infertility to the list of diseases insurance companies must cover, leaving the fate of potential legislation uncertain.

A first-term state lawmaker, miffed about what he says is an expensive traffic ticket, wants to mandate an alternative to paying them for all motorists: community service.

A state lawmaker wants to prevent doctors in Arizona from using unconscious women to help train interns in how to perform pelvic exams.

Pete Rios wasn’t just there when Democrats split the Senate in 2001-02 and actually controlled the chamber in 1991-92, he was leading the charge.

A Republican lawmaker intends to introduce legislation designed to improve the dignity of incarcerated women as the Arizona Department of Corrections plans to reopen a motel-turned-prison to house a continually growing female population.

The Department of Corrections will reopen a shuttered prison in Douglas to deal with the fact that women are being locked up at a higher rate. “We’re simply out of beds,” David Shinn, director of the Department of Corrections told ...

A state lawmaker is seeking to force state health officials to do something they have previously rejected: allow the use of medical marijuana to treat autism.

More than a hundred firefighters from around Arizona crowded a Senate hearing room Thursday morning, listening to colleagues share heartwrenching stories of the dual battles they fight against cancer and a bureaucracy that makes obtaining workers’ compensation coverage difficult.

A Tucson taxing district won plaudits from the state’s auditor, just two weeks after a state senator filed a series of bills targeting its spending habits.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to give people serving time for low-level felonies the opportunity to reduce their sentences by up to 60 percent, but selling the rest of their colleagues on the idea could be tough.