Dog racing in Arizona will be history before you know it. Gov. Doug Ducey signed legislation on Friday that will outlaw the practice by the end of the year.

Few things are as essential to economic growth and development as our nation’s roads. In a state as expansive as Arizona, riders understand the importance of having sound infrastructure, especially when it fails, as it did with the recent bridge collapse on I-10 in California not far from the Arizona border that continues to impact travelers across our state and region.

While other utilities in the state have more solar customers, a proposal from a small electric co-op in southern Arizona is moving through the Corporation Commission first, potentially setting the stage for upcoming solar fee battles.

Raul Hector Castro, Arizona's only Hispanic governor and an American ambassador to three countries, died Friday. He was 98. Family spokesman James Garcia said Castro died in his sleep in San Diego, where he was in hospice care.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said he will return to southern Arizona early next year to meet with residents and talk about steps his agency is taking to secure the border and further reduce illegal immigration.

There were many long nights back in their first months as Arizona lawmakers when two ambitious southern Arizona Republicans – seatmates who were first sent to the Capitol in 2008 – would share their grandest hopes and dreams in the modest setting of their rented Scottsdale trailer.

Attorneys for U.S. Rep. Ron Barber filed a federal suit Monday morning to stall the certification of Arizona’s election results until at least 133 votes can be added to the final tally.

U.S. Rep. Ron Barber is clawing his way back in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, trailing Republican Martha McSally by just a few hundred votes in his bid for re-election.

A pair of upsets are catching the political establishment by surprise: Two southern Arizona Democrats in heavily Democratic legislative districts are trailing Republicans in state House races.

Pima County officials say the number of people dying while crossing the border into the Arizona desert is down from previous years.