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Arizona

Sen. Michele Reagan, R-Scottsdale, chairs the Senate Election Committee. (Cronkite News Service Photo by AJ Vicens)
Dec 18, 2014

Reagan names top staffers for Secretary of State’s Office

Michele Reagan announced who will serve as the top staffers in her administration at the Secretary of State’s Office.

Doug Ducey (Photo by Ryan Cook/RJ Cook Photography)
Dec 18, 2014

Ducey announces 4 senior staffers

Governor-elect Doug Ducey made some long-awaited announcements about who will serve in his administration, naming four senior staff members, including three who were part of his campaign team.

Dec 18, 2014

Arizona ‘Dreamers’ can get licenses starting Monday

Come Monday, thousands of dreamers can get in line at the Motor Vehicle Division to apply for their licenses to drive.

Dec 18, 2014

Tucson police to stop some immigration checks

Tucson police said Wednesday they will no longer fully enforce the state's landmark immigration law that requires local police to check the immigration status of people they encounter while enforcing other laws.

Sen. John McCain, left, R-AZ, and Sen. Jeff Flake, R-AZ, hold a news conference to discuss recent reports that dozens of VA hospital patients in Arizona may have died while awaiting medical care in the Phoenix VA Health Care System, adjacent to the VA Hospital on Friday, April 18, 2014, in Phoenix. Last week's disclosures by current and former Department of Veterans Affairs employees is leading to investigations by the House Committee on Veterans Affairs and the Inspector General for the VA are looking into not only the deaths, but allegations of falsified record keeping and medical reporting. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Dec 18, 2014

Arizona delegation to visit military installations

Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake will tour and get briefings from four military installations in the state.

Dec 18, 2014

Small groups don’t cut it

In an interview yesterday afternoon, Dial laid out his ideas for bringing back approps subcommittees. The likeliest path is legislation, with intent language describing how the subcommittees would operate as a part of the budget process, that would require leadership in each chamber to re-establish the subcommittees via the Senate president’s and speaker’s rule-making process.

Dec 17, 2014

‘Dreamers’ ruling could lead to drivers’ licenses for 150,000

Supreme Court decision could reach a broader group affected by President Obama's executive order on immigration

Dec 17, 2014

Candidates set for Navajo presidential contest

A ruling Wednesday by the Navajo Nation Supreme Court clears the way for election officials to set a date for the presidential contest.

In a Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 photo, Martha McSally, Republican candidate for Congressional District 2, enters a ballroom for an election party, in Tucson, Ariz. On Monday, Nov. 10, lawyers for McSally are asking a judge to block the counting of some provisional ballots in her race against Democratic Rep. Ron Barber. Monday's request for a restraining order comes a day after Pima County Recorder F. Ann Rodriguez refused a demand that she stop verifying provisional ballots that lack an election worker's signature. (AP Photo/Arizona Daily Star, Mamta Popat)
Dec 17, 2014

McSally defeats incumbent Barber in CD2 recount

More than a month after Martha McSally declared victory on election night, a judge made it official this morning and declared her the winner over U.S. Rep. Ron Barber in Arizona's 2nd Congressional District.

Dec 17, 2014

Navajo chief hearing officer removed from post

The Navajo Nation's chief hearing officer who disqualified a presidential candidate who failed to show he could speak fluent Navajo was fired Tuesday for not having a state bar license.

Dec 17, 2014

Brewer still awaits Supreme Court ruling on Dreamers drivers’ licenses

Arizona dreamers went to bed Tuesday night still not knowing if the U.S. Supreme Court will allow them to drive legally. But what the justices think, at least now, may not matter. If they do not act, then the legal wheels start in motion and the state will be told to start issuing licenses.

Dec 17, 2014

End game: No immigration deal, just divisions

A Congress that began with bright hopes for immigration legislation is ending in bitter divisions on the issue even as some Republicans warn that the political imperative for acting is stronger than ever for the GOP.

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