The Legislature has approved a bill creating a new alert system for missing seniors who disappear unexpectedly.

Though debate lingered on far longer than most lawmakers had hoped, the Arizona Legislature adjourned sine die at 1:46 a.m. Thursday, ending a sometimes tumultuous 101-day legislative session with work left on the table.

After years of trying and failing to outlaw texting while driving, Arizona lawmakers are on the cusp of approving a bill to that would target the practice for underage teen drivers.

Arizona lawmakers have an extremely busy week ahead as they attempt to finish up the 2014 legislative session.

The Arizona Legislature has spent the last three weeks battling over next year's $9 billion-plus budget and before that was immersed in a heated national debate over religious freedoms and gay rights. But many other issues remain on the Legislature's plate.

The Arizona Legislature is apparently paying attention to Gov. Jan Brewer's message that she won't sign any bills until she sees a budget she can approve on her desk.

Tax revenues have risen as the state’s economy improved, leading to renewed hopes that 2014 will be the year Arizona stops sweeping highway funds that cities and counties depend on.

Children’s welfare advocates blasted the budget proposal moving through the Arizona Legislature, saying it commits the same errors lawmakers have routinely made in the past.

New rules that would block many women in Arizona from having pill-induced abortions are getting a closer look by a federal judge who will decide whether to put the restrictions on hold as a legal challenge plays out in the courts.

Lawmakers have tabled language granting investigators with the Office of Child Welfare Investigations police powers in a limited scope.