Saying there’s evidence of illegal retaliation, a federal appeals court gave the go-ahead Wednesday for the Arizona Students Association to sue the Board of Regents to get back money the group says was illegally withheld.

Jurors deciding whether to sentence someone to death are entitled to be told that in Arizona the only alternative is life behind bars, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan has officially certified the results of a special election on school funding and police and fire pension measures.

Arizona joined with Texas today to challenge a directive by the Obama administration that schools must let transgender students use restrooms that match their self-proclaimed sexual identity.

Just as one lawsuit on education funding is being settled, state lawmakers face a new one, this one over what challengers say is their failure to build and maintain public schools.

The Arizona Legislature has approved a bill settling a yearlong fight between the state's top elected school official and the Board of Education and sent it to Gov. Doug Ducey for action. The House approved the proposal on a 53-6 vote Wednesday. The Senate had approved the bill on a 30-0 vote late Tuesday. House and Senate leaders and Gov. Doug Ducey's office helped negotiated the deal between Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas. Douglas prompted the fight and a series of ongoing lawsuits early last year when she tried to fire the board's top executives. Ducey blocked that firing and the board then moved to new offices outside her building. They also clashed over control of investigators who look into teacher wrongdoing, with the board suing Douglas to force remote access to teacher files she controlled. House Bill 2620 is designed to end the litigation. The board will retain control over its four employees and Douglas will assume oversight of the investigators.

The Senate passed legislation May 3 that will end a year-long court battle between the State Board of Education and Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas.

Calling it consumer fraud, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich filed suit Tuesday against Volkswagen over the sale of supposed low-polluting diesel vehicles that were anything but that.

Claiming a pattern of practices designed to discriminate, national and local Democratic Party interests want a federal judge to force changes in how the state runs its elections.

A federal judge heard arguments Thursday on an effort by Arizona to dismiss a lawsuit over how it carries out the death penalty in a decision that could let the state resume executions.