Arizona News

Rep. Ben Quayle will run in Arizona's 6th district, setting up a Member-vs-Member battle.

If there's anything lucky about Jan Brewer's plan to dismantle unions in Arizona is that she and her friends are including fire and police - and perhaps that's what it is going to take to fight this latest attack on labor and get other Arizonans to pay attention.

The Arizona Sci-tech Festival held it's kick-off event on Saturday, February 4 at the Arizona Science Center.

PHOENIX, Ariz., July 26, 2010 -- Two things are assured this coming week. One is that Arizona will do its best to put into practice its controversial anti-immigration bill.

Arizona's rapid growth of K-12 online schools is spurring new proposals to both toughen accountability and promote additional growth by giving online schools more state money.

Now that the Florida primary is well behind, it is important to take a longer look at the battle for the Latino vote in the general election.

Police are on the hunt for the person responsible for a shooting in southwestern Arizona.

The golden years of retirement have become a nightmare for a valley couple struggling with failing health and no insurance.

Under Arizona law, cities, towns and counties, as well as local boards and commissions, must alert the public to meetings, budgets and many other matters by publishing notices in a newspaper.

The Federal Aviation Administration says two people died and two others have been hurt in a plane crash in Show Low.

Gov. Jan Brewer projects $9.2 billion for the fiscal year that begins July 1; the legislative staff comes in lower, at $8.8 billion.

Imagine if the Super Bowl was played three weeks after the Pro Bowl. That is essentially the situation in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, which is about to see an unusual break between contests before the most significant cache of delegates will be up for grabs.

Long before transparency was the catch phrase of government watchdogs, Arizona newspapers have been the primary fighters in the battle to keep government records open to citizens.

An Arizona city council candidate struck from the ballot over her limited English skills concedes she isn't fluent in the language but called the legal challenge an abuse of power that could keep her from serving a poor border community where most residents speak only Spanish.

In this Oct. 30, 2011, file photo Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, left, tours the U.S.-Mexico border with Border Patrol agent Steve Venditouli in the Coronado National Forest near Nogales, Ariz.

Arizona's unremitting campaign against its Hispanic communities has certainly reached an extreme, with the state GOP initiating a spate of radical anti-immigrant laws, banning Mexican-American and other ethnic studies , and ensuring that Spanish-speakers will never hold elected office .

Due to popular demand, Arizona Opera is offering an additional peformance of Puccini's Madama Butterfly .

Sen. Steve Smith, R-Maricopa, said Tuesday that Arizona already has fairly substantial laws requiring that women give "informed consent' before terminating a pregnancy.

Police in southern Arizona have broken up a drug trafficking network that smuggled more than 15 tons of marijuana and cocaine from Mexico and arrested 12 suspects, authorities said on Friday.

A jury found Willeford guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Willeford's stepfather, Dirk Willeford, and guilty of two counts of attempted murder.