Pearce’s campaign committee falls into gray area
A high-profile Republican representative formed a campaign committee for the Arizona Senate and collected campaign contributions last year, but elections attorneys said such actions may not trigger the state’s resign-to-run […]
Gas prices, economy cutting into Quartzsite’s snowbird business
QUARTZSITE — It’s been a rough winter for Cena Beene, one of the many hoping to cash in on snowbirds who flock to this normally desolate patch of western Arizona.The […]
Burns: Lawmakers need a ‘reality check’ on budget
Budget work stalled in Senate committee
Arizona’s Skull and Bones
Mine Inspector says more money needed to cover open-shaft mines
McCain works to heal conservative rift
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the day former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney dropped out of the presidential race, Senator John McCain addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference here to soothe feathers […]
Goddard and other state AGs ask EPA to step on the gas
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard joined 16 other state attorneys general to ask the Environmental Projection Agency to stop dragging its feet on regulating greenhouse gases.Last year, the U.S. Supreme […]
Napolitano wants to shift some prison costs to counties
One of Gov. Janet Napolitano’s proposals for reducing a state budget shortfall would put a financial hit on counties already facing lean financial times. The idea is to shift the […]
Homestretch here for Phoenix areas light-rail system
Drivers have spent three years navigating the 20-mile obstacle course where crews have been building the Phoenix area’s light-rail system, and Metro officials are trying to reassure them that the […]
TUSD to decide whether to close four schools
TUCSON — The Tucson Unified School District’s governing board is weighing whether to begin a process of closing four elementary schools this fall. Corbett, Ochoa, Rogers and Wrightstown elementary schools […]
Republicans face dissenters in caucus over tax repeal
A proposal to permanently keep in place a property tax relief program that, without legislative action, will expire at the end of fiscal year 2009 appears to be in peril […]