A state GOP senator wants to allow the Arizona Department of Health Services to inspect medical marijuana kitchens without giving notice and blames the marijuana industry for killing the same effort last session.

Starting in December all Arizona-issued medical marijuana cards will be digital.

State health officials are slow at investigating reports of abuse and neglect at long-term care facilities, to the point where residents may be put at risk, according to a new audit.

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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.