Weighty decisions abounded on Capitol Hill this week, but the decisions for Arizona's three incoming congressmen came down to picking official stationery and the drapes that will hang in their new offices.
After overwhelming support from Latinos helped propel President Barack Obama to a second term, a new Republican plan would offer certain illegal immigrants legal status without a path to citizenship.
Arizona added 17,000 people to its food stamp rolls in October, as near-record-high levels of assistance continued to stubbornly hang on after 18 months.
Maricopa County voters living in precincts with higher percentages of minorities had a greater chance of casting provisional ballots in the Nov. 6 election, a Cronkite News Service analysis found.
A national drug shortage is endangering patients' health and forcing doctors, pharmacists and first responders to scramble to find supplies, according to experts who shared their stories with Cronkite News Service.
On April 17, 2000, a United Airlines jet struck a turkey vulture on approach to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and landed with $50,000 worth of damage to a wing.
A federal appeals court overturned a juvenile's felony drug conviction Wednesday, ruling that a Border Patrol pat-down that turned up marijuana during a vehicle stop in Arizona was not justified.
At Guns Etc., Bryant Scatena examines an AR-15 he's thinking about purchasing sooner rather than later because of fears that the government will curb sales of assault rifles.
Twenty-three suspected illegal aliens, all piled in the bed of a pickup truck with a camper shell, were arrested Wednesday night, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said in a release.
Ty Tsosie was taught by his Navajo elders that when he needed spiritual reflection, he could go to the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers, a sacred place to the tribe.
The Interior Department unveiled a streamlined process Tuesday for approving leases on tribal lands that federal officials hope will spur development by replacing outdated and unresponsive 50-year-old regulations.
Native Americans could start getting payments by the end of this year from a historic $3.4 billion settlement of tribal claims that the federal government mismanaged trust funds for years, an attorney said Tuesday.
Booming sales on Cyber Monday might have meant savings for consumers, but they could also have meant lost revenue for the state of Arizona, a new report said.
Supporters of the Tucson Unified School District's Mexican American Studies curriculum banned by a 2010 state law see potential for reviving the program or something similar in an update to a desegregation plan set for review by a federal court.
Chance Hart bought a Powerball ticket Monday at his usual spot, the Fuel Stop 101 in midtown. He said he's been buying lottery tickets regularly for ages, but with the jackpot at $425 million - the largest in history - he's hoping this time will finally be his lucky break.
Michael Hwan didn't have to pay for the Stanford University computer science course he took online. The class on gamification - applying game techniques beyond games - from the University of Pennsylvania was also free.
