The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission approved basic starting-point grid maps Tuesday, kicking off a process where the state's congressional and legislative district boundaries will be heavily tweaked before being finalized.
A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday at the trial of the founders of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com on charges of facilitating prostitution and laundering money after deciding prosecutors had too many references to child sex trafficking in a case where no one faced such a charge.
A judge was considering whether to overturn several new Arizona laws that restrict the power of cities, counties and school districts to impose COVID-19 restrictions like mask mandates after hearing arguments in the case Monday.
A Democratic senator vital to the fate of President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion plan for social and environmental spending says he won’t support even half that amount or the ambitious timetable envisioned for passing it.
Cities and urban counties across the U.S. are raising concerns that a recent rule from President Joe Biden's administration could preclude them from tapping into $350 billion of coronavirus relief aid to expand high-speed internet connections.
State auditors are casting a critical eye at the Arizona database used for conducting background checks of people seeking certain types of jobs or work licenses.
Arizona Board of Regents endorsed plans for a new building for Arizona Public Media, a Tucson-based broadcasting outlet hosted by the University of Arizona.
An Arizona judge ruled Thursday that expert testimony on cellphone data will be allowed in the case of a U.S. Air Force airman who is accused of kidnapping and killing a Mennonite woman.
A judge has called off testimony Thursday at the trial of the former operators of the classified site Backpage.com so that one of them could get tested for the coronavirus.
The remains of two people who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack at the World Trade Center were positively identified this week, as officials continued the difficult and heart-wrenching task of returning victims to their families.
Arizona’s second most populous county is prodding its workforce to get COVID-19 vaccinations by requiring employees who refuse the shots to pay more for their health insurance.
A handcuffed woman who was arrested Tuesday with a gun at a highway gas station near Kingman managed to grab a revolver from a deputy's holster and shoot him in the hand before another officer brought her down using a stun gun.
A judge on Monday evening refused to block a new Arizona law allowing sports gambling to be run by professional sports teams in a decision that will allow the major gambling expansion start as planned later this week.
A program announced by Arizona’s Republican governor last month giving private school vouchers to students whose parents object to school mask requirements has seen a surge of applications.
The federal agency that oversees schools that educate some Native Americans in nearly two dozen states, including Arizona, issued an employee vaccine mandate Thursday.
Preliminary figures show that eviction filings in Arizona’s largest county were trending down in August before the Supreme Court issued a decision that ended a national moratorium on lockouts.
Several men objecting to an Arizona elementary school student being required to quarantine and miss a field trip because of a possible contact to the coronavirus threatened to make a citizen's arrest of the school principal while at least one brandished cable ties, school officials said Friday.
A Maine National Guard soldier has been charged with kidnapping and sexually abusing a colleague while serving on the southern border in Arizona, officials said.
Jacob Chansley, who was widely photographed in the Senate chamber with a flagpole topped with a spear on Jan. 6, could face 41 to 51 months in prison under sentencing guidelines, a prosecutor said.
An Arizona Supreme Court ruling rejects a major part of a Tucson hospital's lawsuit accusing a pharmacy chain of negligence and seeking compensation for care provided to opioid-addicted patients.
