Republicans have introduced several bills this year to expand the places where people can carry a concealed handgun.

A first-term Arizona lawmaker wants to require that students have to study what he says is the "brutality'' of communism before they can graduate.

Gov. Doug Ducey signed and vetoed more bills than ever before, and almost one-third of the Legislature went home batting .000 for passing bills.

Republican lawmakers voted Friday to require that students be exposed to the stories of people who have fled communism as part of a curriculum to prepare them to be "civically responsible and knowledgeable adults.''

About a third of state Republican lawmakers are calling on newly re-elected state GOP Chair Kelli Ward to either agree to a recount of that vote or back off of her challenges to the presidential race.

Quang Nguyen and former lawmaker Judy Burges are rising to the top of a packed Republican House primary for two open seats in the Prescott-centric Legislative District 1.