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Officials at all three of the state’s public universities are gearing up for welcoming students back to classes in a midst of the COVID-19 pandemic that has spiked sharply in recent weeks. Arizona State University, University of Arizona, and Northern ...

Gov. Doug Ducey is defending indoor political rallies with thousands of people without masks even as he admitted the only way Arizona will stop the upward trend of infections is if people mask up and stay home.

No corner of the country has been spared from the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. And although the virus has been with us since winter, only now is Arizona experiencing a full-on assault. Thanks to the state’s three public universities ...

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 ...

Two Arizona tribes are suing the federal government over the decision by the Trump administration to dilute water quality rules. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Phoenix claims the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers, at ...

The head of the House Ethics Committee is weighing whether to have full-blown hearings into the panel’s investigation of Rep. David Cook — assuming the matter gets that far. Rep. John Allen, R-Scottsdale, said Monday he is still reviewing both ...

This second edition of the Arizona Capitol Times’ video Q&A feature is an interview with Stephanie Parra, executive director of ALL in Education. Parra spent three years as the government relations director for the Arizona Education Association before joining ALL ...

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 ...