Arizona’s newest senator, Sine Kerr, follows in the footsteps of former Sen. Steve Pierce and the late Sen. Chester Crandell as a lawmaker who lives and breathes the agricultural lifestyle.

The number of H-2A visas issued to agricultural workers in the state has more than doubled in the past five years, mirroring a national increase in the temporary “guest worker program” for noncitizens.

Farmworkers in the nationai??i??s largest agricultural state will be entitled to the same overtime pay as most other hourly workers under a law signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown.

Food advocacy groups said Apache County children had the least reliable access to healthy food in the nation in 2014, when 41.5 percent of children in the county were deemed to be “food insecure.”

A dispute between Paul Gosar and agricultural interests is at the root of a super PAC’s campaign to oust the three-term congressman in the Republican primary.

When Right Way Superpac started spending against Gosar, the congressman and his team pointed the finger at the GOP establishment, the US Chamber of Commerce and the forces that fought to defeat Kansas Congressman Tim Huelskamp earlier this month.

The Arizona Court of Appeals has weighed in on a topic that's older than the state itself: cattle brands.

A strike-everything amendment targets a little-known state agency that allocates billions of dollars worth of energy from Hoover Dam.

Traditional veterinary medicine for large food animals in rural Arizona has all but vanished, leaving the state’s livestock industry increasingly vulnerable to disease and even death.

If you want to glimpse the future of a city or state, all you need to do is look at how it’s managing its water supply.