Senate President Steve Yarbrough threatened to strip a key provision out of a bill that would severely reduce the annual growth of a tax credit for private school scholarships.

That provision didn’t sit well with Borrelli’s Republican colleagues, most of whom were prepared to vote against the bill if the lower fees remained.

A resolution sponsored by Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, would ask voters to undue much of Proposition 206, a citizen-driven initiative that boosted Arizona’s minimum wage from $8.05 to $10 in 2017, $10.50 in 2018 and eventually to $12 by 2020.

State lawmakers voted late Thursday to adopt changes in laws on opioids despite what some said are flaws and concerns by others that the plan won't do much of anything to deal with the drug abuse epidemic.

The Fountain Hills Republican said Tuesday he’s dropping a measure that would double the threshold at which political and candidate committees in Arizona are required to report the names of their donors.

H2032, which was introduced by Rep. Jay Lawrence, R-Scottsdale, would have required cities and towns to print the political party designation of candidates for mayor and city or town council on the ballot, despite a court ruling that upheld municipalities’ rights to set up elections however they choose.

An Apache Junction Republican has introduced legislation that would permanently extend a state sales tax that generates more than $644 million in annual funding for public schools.

This time around, Arizona Democratic lawmakers aren’t falling for Gov. Doug Ducey’s centrist approach designed to add more money to schools and attack the opioid crisis.

In these early days of the 8th Congressional District special election, little attention – if any – has been paid to the two Democratic candidates running in the overwhelmingly red stronghold.

The state's high court this morning upheld the legality of an assessment on hospitals that helps pay for health care for 400,000 Arizonans.