Arizona Government News

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is the Republicans' best shot at holding onto the Arizona governorship in 2010 against likely Democratic candidate Terry Goddard.

The Arizona Legislature has ended its special session after approving a package of bills to eliminate about a quarter of the state's $2 billion shortfall.

Arizona has wooed and won China's king of solar. Zhengrong Shi, the son of dirt-poor peasant farmers who built Suntech Power into a multibillion-dollar giant in less than a decade, has chosen metro Phoenix as its first manufacturing site in the U.S. Arizona didn't score this coup in one fell swoop; it happened through a series of right decisions ...

Department of Transportation officials arrested and charged the driver, 31-year-old Richard Garfield Coulton, with marijuana trafficking after Thursday's discovery.

Arizona Senators John Kyl and John McCain are among those voting against moving forward with the healthcare reform bill.

E.J. Montini is a columnist for The Arizona Republic. If lawsuit fails, Arizona loses Gov.

Remember when banks were lending money to people that had no means of paying it back and the entire economy came crashing down? The Bank of America apparently has no memory of this because it just approved a $700 million loan to the Arizona state government, which happens to already be about $2 billion in the hole.

PHOENIX a ' Ignoring a potential lawsuit, state senators voted Wednesday to grab hold of the money from traveler's checks that haven't been used or cashed within three years a ' 12 years less than now allowed.

" What will Arizona look like in 40 years? That is the question the Arizona Department of Transportation is posing to Valley residents this month in hopes of receiving public opinion on several dramatic proposals for the future of the transportation framework.

In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea.

Advocacy groups for education, social services and state employees are urging Arizona legislators to discard proposals for midyear spending cuts and instead borrow and use other alternatives to balance the budget.

The Arizona Department of Transportation will lay off 115 people before the end of the year as part of efforts to close a $100 million budget gap.

State lawmakers are once again trying to remove some legal protections homeowners now have from being pursued by banks if they walk away from their mortgages.

A national organization has filed a federal lawsuit to protect domestic partner benefits for gay and lesbian Arizona state employees.

Arizona's first movie production studio won approval Monday to develop a facility in east Mesa that its developer sees as an inexpensive alternative to Hollywood.

Arizona has a projected midyear budget shortfall of up to $2 billion, but the to-do list for a special Legislative session planned for this week would close about a quarter of that.

As I'm sure virtually everyone in Arizona has heard by now, a report out this week states flatly that Arizona is in the second worst financial shape after California.

The family of David Hulstedt filed a 40 million dollar law suit against the City of Scottsdale claiming the Scottsdale Police wrongfully shot him.

There appears to be some relief for millions of people running out of unemployment benefits, after President Obama signed a 20-week extension.

Arizona is in danger of going down the same financial path as our neighbor to the west, a new report says.