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Ducey released his $11.4 billion budget proposal today, up roughly a billion dollars from the FY19 budget.

With the pending retirement of County Supervisor Denny Barney, several former lawmakers are seeking, or rumored to be seeking, the appointment.

As the countdown for Arizona to adopt a drought plan drops to 15 days, state lawmakers received an early look at the water measures they will be voting on later this month.

Michael Ward — husband of former state senator Kelli Ward, who lost two GOP primary campaigns for US Senate and is currently seeking AZGOP chair — was cited for assault at an election night party after he spit in the face of one of his wife’s former campaign volunteers at the AZ GOP Election night watch party.

In his fifth State of the State speech, Ducey today pledged to boost the state’s rainy-day fund to $1 billion.

In his address at the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry luncheon today, Ducey said his top priority this session is adopting the Drought Contingency Plan, and he made it clear today that missing the Jan. 31 deadline imposed by federal officials from the Bureau of Land Management is not an option.

AHCCCS is investigating $3.4 million in questionable costs submitted by Hacienda Healthcare’s wholly-owned subsidiaries in 2013 and 2014, according to court filings.

Policymakers’ attempts to solve the teacher shortage crisis by deregulating the profession aren’t working, but are filling more classrooms with underqualified teachers, according to the latest report from the Arizona School Personnel Administration Assn.

Represent Me AZ, a liberal grassroots super PAC out of Tucson that engages in “guerrilla activism,” dug up videos in which presumptive Democratic US Senate candidate Grant Woods makes sexist and homophobic comments, fat-shames an airplane passenger and mocks a rape victim.

S Allen wants voters to boost funding for education by more than $350 million, and is offering up a referendum to ask voters to increase the Prop 301 sales tax to a full penny in the 2020 election.