Former Republican Attorney General Grant Woods who left the party to become a Democrat died Saturday. 

Arizona can't take more than $1.1 million from Flagstaff as a financial penalty for the city having its own minimum wage, at least not now.

A judge questioned attorneys for the state Monday on their claim that lawmakers have the authority to financially penalize local governments that impose their own minimum wages.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge James Smith late Monday denied a claim by the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe that the law approving off-reservation gambling was illegally enacted.

The outcome of a legal fight between Flagstaff and state lawmakers could affect the decision by residents of other cities whether they want to impose their own minimum wage.

In 2022, depending on which advocacy groups succeed in gathering enough support, voters may see questions on their ballot asking about capping medical debt, stopping secretive election spending or ending machine counting of ballots.

Republican state representatives voted Friday to allow the owners of small businesses -- and anyone who organizes their finances for tax purposes as one -- to escape paying the voter-approved income tax surcharge on the wealthy to fund education.

A veteran lawmaker is proposing what amounts to an end-run to allow some business owners to avoid paying the just-approved income tax surcharge for education.

Lawmakers like the idea — it’s criminal justice reform that both helps those in need and serves the community — but stakeholders raised the prospect that voter protection laws and the 13th Amendment, which bans involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime, could stop the bill in its tracks.

A Yuma Republican wants voters to make it more difficult for themselves to pass ballot propositions. Coming on the heels of a narrow victory for proponents of Proposition 208, a tax hike on the state’s richest people to pay for ...