A state lawmaker from Surprise wants to require insurance companies to pay the medical costs for those who want to "detransition'' from their sex-change therapy and changes.

Saying thieves pay attention, a state lawmaker and a prosecutor are moving to enhance the penalty against those who engage in multiple incidents of organized retail theft.

The flying cars that The Jetsons made us believe we would all have by now haven't quite materialized.

Julie Willoughby says state legislators shouldn’t be making laws while on drugs for the same reason they shouldn’t be driving.

Gov. Katie Hobbs insists that her plan to take 8.9% out of the state land trust every year to pay for her plan to boost education funding won’t harm the account.

Julie Willoughby says state legislators shouldn't be making laws while on drugs for the same reason they shouldn't be driving.

The way Ben Toma sees it, perhaps communism is a good idea — only on paper.

The Internal Revenue Service has no right to force 750,000 Arizona families who got a state income tax rebate last year to now pay federal taxes on the funds, Attorney General Kris Mayes said Thursday. And she said if the agency doesn’t back off — and soon —she may sue, saying Arizonans need answers before the April 15 deadline to file their federal returns.

Saying they want to prevent consumer confusion, members of a House panel voted Monday to make it illegal to call anything grown in a laboratory as meat or poultry.

Gov. Katie Hobbs is defending her call for lawmakers to impose caps on prescription drug price hikes despite a lack of specifics.

A measure designed to finally legalize the already common practice of people selling home-made tamales and similar goods cleared its first hurdle Wednesday.

Arizonans can't run for office under the No Labels banner unless the party gives them permission.

The wining and dining of corporate CEOs by the Arizona Commerce Authority is unconstitutional, Attorney General Kris Mayes said Tuesday.

Gov. Katie Hobbs wants to tap into proceeds of the state land trust to raise salaries for teachers as well as school support staff.

Pluto may not be a planet according to the guidelines uses by astronomers. But as far as Rep. Justin Wilmeth is concerned, it should still be Arizona’s planet.

An attorney who represented Mark Finchem in his ill-fated legal bid to overturn the 2022 race for secretary of state has agreed to retire — at least for now — as part of a deal to resolve a State Bar complaint against him how he handled that case.

A Prescott Valley lawmaker wants to be sure that the next time you buy something called "meat'' it actually came from something that had at least two legs, if not more.

Calling it a "problem-riddled agency,'' a Republican senator wants to abolish the Arizona Commerce Authority.

It’s taken four decades, Saudi cows munching on alfalfa grown with Arizona water and national headlines about whether Arizona is finally drying up.

Stung by a veto last year, Rep. Travis Grantham has introduced a new version of his proposal to expand what kinds of home-cooked foods can be sold to the public.

Unable to get the Republican-controlled Legislature to roll back a universal voucher program, Gov. Katie Hobbs now wants the lawmakers who approved the expansion to now impose some new restrictions on the private and parochial schools that accept them.

Arizona voters have an absolute right to enact laws requiring disclosure of “dark money’’ political donations — even if Republican lawmakers don’t like it, a judge ruled Friday.

So where have all the Jessica’s gone? Ditto Ashley, Samantha, Sarah and Amanda.

An attorney for a failed candidate challenging the 2022 election results used his unrelated position as chairman of a legislative panel to elicit testimony Thursday from a former Supreme Court chief justice that ultimately could benefit his client in court.

Members of a special panel appointed by Gov. Katie Hobbs to look at the state prison system are telling her they can't do the job she asked them to do: provide actual — and meaningful — oversight of the $1.1 billion operation where about 35,000 people are locked up.

A Fountain Hills senator is moving once again to pass laws to lock up — or at least fine — those who get in the way of Arizonans on the road.

Developers in the Phoenix area want lawmakers to alter 43-year-old laws that restrict construction in areas without adequate water supply.

Senate President Warren Petersen is suing Gov. Katie Hobbs over what he says is her end-run around state laws giving the Senate the power to confirm — or reject — her picks to head state agencies.

Lawyers for Kari Lake told a judge Tuesday the defamation suit against her by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer should be thrown out because the failed Republican candidate for governor believes her statements about injected ballots and sabotaged voting machines in the 2022 election she lost are true.

An attorney involved in the legal dispute over whether Cochise County could do a full hand count of ballots now is seeking to have the State Bar of Arizona sanction the county attorney who had told the supervisors the move would be illegal.

PHOENIX -- A veteran state lawmaker says he wants more oversight of the Department of Child Safety, saying the agency is taking far too many children from their homes and then losing track of some of them.

The attorney for the top two Republican lawmakers asked a judge Wednesday to block implementation of a 2022 voter-approved law designed to guarantee that people know who is trying to influence elections.

Justices of the Arizona Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with the question of whether lawmakers who approved allowing abortions through the first 15 weeks of pregnancy in 2022 actually intended to outlaw the procedure entirely if they ever were allowed.

Attorneys for Republican legislative leaders want a federal judge to unhear — or at least ignore — the testimony of a former Democratic lawmaker about the racially motivated comments he said were made by current Majority Leader Sonny Borrelli.

The Arizona Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday, Dec. 12, about whether Arizona women will lose virtually all their rights to terminate a pregnancy.

Gov. Katie Hobbs said she’s willing to have members of the Arizona National Guard on the border to help deal with migrants — and even reopen the Lukeville port of entry — but not on her dime.

Scottsdale police did nothing wrong in arresting the owner of a restaurant for violating one of Gov. Doug Ducey’s executive orders on COVID, a federal appeals court has ruled.

A special task force wants to expand state laws that fund school resource officers to also let districts spend grant dollars on safety hardware, including artificial intelligence to spot would-be shooters.

Gov. Katie Hobbs said Monday, Dec. 4, she worries that the closure of the border crossing at Lukeville could spread.

Reversing course, Supreme Court Justice William Montgomery said Thursday he won’t be participating in the Dec. 12 hearing on abortion laws or deciding the outcome of a legal fight on whether virtually all abortions in Arizona are illegal.

Saying it is overwhelmed with people crossing the border illegally, Customs and Border Protection will be shutting down the port of entry at Lukeville on Monday, a move that will force Arizonans to drive hundreds of miles out of the way to get to and from the Mexican resort town of Puerto Peñasco.

A judge has rebuffed a bid by Kari Lake to get access to ballot envelopes, throwing another hitch into her effort to overturn the 2022 election results.

Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes want a judge to toss a lawsuit filed against them by state schools chief Tom Horne because they can’t give him the legal relief he wants: an end to “dual-language’’ programs in public schools he contends are ineffective — and illegal.

Supreme Court Justice William Montgomery said he has done or said nothing that would make him unable to fairly judge a pending lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood Arizona over whether abortion remains legal in Arizona.

They may not be a bargain. But an increasing supply of turkeys this year is driving down the price of the traditional centerpiece of family Thanksgiving dinner.

Arizona’s top state health official says there is nothing unconstitutional about her agency’s refusal to issue “corrected” birth certificates to transgender individuals based simply on their request.

Gov. Katie Hobbs said Monday she doesn’t believe the University of Arizona should be balancing its newly disclosed budget shortfall by cutting financial aid, which is being considered.

Republican lawmakers are pushing a plan to tap the state land trust to fund $4,000-a-year pay raises for teachers.

A new ruling by the Minnesota Supreme Court could add ammunition to efforts by Donald Trump to remain on the ballot for Arizona's presidential preference primary despite a legal challenge here.

Unsuccessful so far in his bid to overturn his loss in the race for attorney general, Abe Hamadeh has opened up a new legal front — with some new legal theories.