Christine Jones said she’ll deploy 1,200 Arizona National Guard troops to the Mexican border and build fencing along key smuggling routes if elected governor.

Arizonans who smoke marijuana can't be charged with driving while impaired absent actual evidence they are affected by the drug, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled this morning.

Arizona authorities plan to release more details at a Monday news conference about their bust involving a major drug smuggling ring.

Two of three Maricopa County sheriff's employees implicated in a heroin smuggling ring have been released from custody after posting bail.

Those on the frontlines know them as one of the most dangerous drugs, and one of the most misleading terms. Bath salts: they are no day at the spa. They are a new synthetic drug, destroying lives and ripping apart families across the country.

Arizona budget problems could snag legislation to provide Pinal County with $5 million to fight drug smugglers.

A police report, citing Border Patrol intelligence, states that Martin Alejandro Cota-Monroy stole 400 pounds of marijuana and some meth from the PEI-Estatales/El Chapo drug trafficking organization, shortly before he was bludgeoned, stabbed and then decapitated in a suburban Phoenix apartment last October — a gruesome killing that police say was meant to send a message that anyone who betrays the traffickers will get the same treatment.

Money, fancy cars and nice clothes a�� things that most young people desire. According to law enforcement, smugglers use promises of just that to lure middle- and high-schoolers into illegal activity such as smuggling drugs, people and even firearms.

A deputy who came under scrutiny earlier this year after claiming he was wounded by drug smugglers in the Arizona desert has been suspended over comments he made to a weekly Phoenix newspaper, the Pinal County sheriff's office said Wednesday.

The Department of Public Safety on Wednesday said it had a more limited role in investigating the shooting of a sheriff’s deputy than has been suggested by the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office.