Arizona Politics

The agreement on school vouchers and a handful of other disputes ended a stalemate between the House and Senate that held up the final pieces of the Arizona budget.

Governor Doug Ducey has signed a $12.8 billion state budget that includes a tax cut plan and investments in education and other areas.

Justices on the Arizona State Supreme Court have dismissed a portion of a defamation suit filed by expelled state lawmaker Don Shooter against former State House Speaker JD Mesnard.

Arizona Republicans vote to shield the wealthiest taxpayers from a tax increase to boost education funding.

Rep. Aaron Lieberman announced has announced he's running for Arizona governor, becoming the third major Democrat to seek the state's highest office.

The county’s Republican-controlled Board of Supervisors responded to Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who said in May that she would seek to decertify the machines because the county lost control of them and doesn’t know what was done to them.

Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., took the president’s trillion-dollar plan to task on social media, likening the Democrats' infrastructure plan to socialism.

Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., is co-hosting a fundraiser on July 1 with a purported Holocaust denier, according to an advertisement for the event.

People convicted of a wide variety of crimes are not eligible, including serious or violent felonies, sexual offenses, human trafficking and dangerous crimes against children.

Republican lawmakers are poised to send two more measures changing the rules for citizen initiatives to the ballot for voter approval, joining another one that was referred to the 2022 ballot on Friday.

The audit can't change the Arizona election results. But it's being carefully watched by Trump and some of his most ardent supporters who believe it will finally turn up evidence to support fraud claims.

The Republican-controlled Legislature sent a contentious sex education bill that was previously vetoed by Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey back to his desk after it was stripped of language he objected to that would have prevented young children from being taught how to avoid or report sexual abuse.

Steve Gaynor, a businessman, says he wants to bring an outside perspective to the Arizona governor's office.

The Senate amendments to the budget also ban so-called “critical race theory,” ban K-12 schools and universities from requiring COVID-19 vaccines, prevent both from requiring face masks if the coronavirus pandemic surges again and bar any employer or business from requiring vaccine passports.

The Arizona measure, SB1241, would require county election officials to give a variety of information from those ballots to the county attorney or attorney general

Gov. Ducey called the bill he signed at the Capitol an important step in bringing relief to rural communities that have been impacted by a series of wildfires this year.

Arizona Republican Arizona lawmakers objected to a $1.9 billion tax cut in a $12.8 billion GOP budget deal.