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.

Rep. Sonny Borrelli, R-Lake Havasu City, says too many laws and edicts from Washington are interfering with the individual rights of Arizonans. To combat this, he suggests Arizona assert its sovereignty when state leaders or voters determine that one is unconstitutional.

The wife of the late Sen. Chester Crandell will serve the remainder of the Heber Republican’s term.

Republican leaders from Legislative District 6 and GOP officials have settled on a candidate to replace the late Sen. Chester Crandell as the party’s Senate nominee – former legislator and current Navajo County supervisor Sylvia Allen.

A Navajo County sheriff’s official says an autopsy has confirmed that Arizona state Sen. Chester Crandell died from injuries he suffered when he was thrown from a horse.

The death of Republican state Sen. Chester Crandell has boosted the chances for an independent to be elected to the Legislature for the first time in recent memory. Crandell was unopposed in the GOP primary and was set to take on independent Tom O'Halleran in the November general election.

The political world was shocked late yesterday afternoon when news filtered out of Eastern Arizona that Crandell had died earlier in the day, apparently after he fell off a young colt he was riding at his family’s ranch.

Arizona state Sen. Chester Crandell was found dead Monday by his family, who went searching after the senator failed to return from a horseback ride near Heber-Overgaard.

For the first time in more than three decades, Arizona voters are not going to get a chance to make their own laws.

The Senate gave preliminary approval to Gov. Jan Brewer’s proposal to create a new child safety department over objections from some Republican lawmakers who were outraged by the level of new spending being appropriated without the accountability measures they desired.