For most of this session, lawmakers have been working with stakeholders of various interests to cobble together legislation that addresses Arizona’s water woes, but concerns over conservation and money have slowed progress. 

Legislative leadership is considering a “skinny budget” this year after struggling to get consensus on big projects. 

Legislators moved on Monday to claw back part of an emergency law they approved just last week.  The House and Senate introduced identical bills today that would repeal language relating to precinct committeemen. Both bills were given the OK by each ...

Two direct attacks on Arizonan’s abortion rights have been steadily making their way through the state’s Congress: House Bill 2483, the Arizona Heartbeat Act, which heavily restricts abortion after what the bill calls a “fetal heartbeat” is detected, and Senate ...

Today many of us use our devices to manage our lives. We use them for banking, shopping, gaming, entertainment, and even finding love. But if the Arizona state Legislature gets in the way, Arizonans won’t be able to trust and ...

Bills allowing loaded guns on school campuses and guns in public areas passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee today on party lines.  Each of the two bills came to the committee after passing out of the House on Feb. 17 ...

A House panel approved legislation Wednesday that could give foes of voter-proposed initiatives a new legal tool to keep them from ever getting to the ballot.  Senate Bill 1094 would spell out that petition circulators have to read, out loud, ...

By raising expectations, rather than lowering them, we can give all students the opportunities they need to succeed—in school and in life.

Republicans in the Arizona House approved a measure Thursday that would ask voters to amend the state constitution to ban the teaching of so-called “critical race theory” in schools and bar any preferential treatment based on race.  A ban on ...

A bipartisan pair of representatives hope a bill to streamline zoning regulations, improve housing supply and affordability and pour more money into the Arizona Department of Housing Trust Fund in order to curb the state’s rising housing costs and help ...