Nearly three years after a narrow defeat at the polls, a new attempt to legalize recreational marijuana is underway.

Days after an unflattering performance audit found the state Department of Health Services had misallocated money from the Medical Marijuana Fund, the agency’s director said she will ensure requests for those dollars will face more scrutiny.

The state Department of Health Services has misallocated nearly $1 million meant to operate the Medical Marijuana Program that serves nearly 200,000 patients, according to a state audit.

In 2017, Republican lawmakers sneaked a provision into the state budget designed to strip Planned Parenthood of funding meant to serve low income patients.

An embattled Phoenix long-term care facility where an incapacitated woman was raped and later gave birth is now under state supervision.

A Republican lawmaker wants the state to have greater oversight of Southwest Key facilities after the shelters for migrant children were thrust into the national spotlight following reports of sexual abuse at some Arizona shelters.

State health officials are looking for new ways to boost Arizona's sagging rate of vaccination of children after scrapping a pilot program aimed at parents who opted their youngsters out.

Recent state inspections of Southwest Key shelters that house migrant children show that some employees did not have adequate background checks on file.

In light of reports of sexual abuse at some Arizona shelters being used to house migrant children, Gov. Doug Ducey has called for immediate inspections of all Southwest Key facilities in the state.

Doctors who provide abortions would have to ask a woman why she wants the procedure under a legislative proposal to boost reporting requirements.