State legislators are altering state laws to encourage business owners to welcome customers with guns by giving them special protections from lawsuits if something goes wrong and someone gets shot.

Maria Syms has resigned from the Paradise Valley Town Council, a move that allows her to avoid violating the Arizona Constitution when she is sworn in as a state representative.

A central Phoenix district will remain one of the state’s few split areas, as Democrat Kelli Butler handily won the race for Legislative District 28’s first House seat.

After a mailer and robocall urged voters to support only one of the two Republicans running for the state House in central Phoenix’s Legislative District 28, accusations are flying from the two GOP nominees for the district’s seats.

Republicans Maria Syms and Mary Hamway easily beat the rest of the pack in the five-way GOP primary for two House seats in central Phoenix’s Legislative District 28.

The Attorney General’s Office is asking a federal judge to allow it to pursue an investigation into whether anyone in Arizona is violating state laws dealing with abortions and fetal remains.