Associated Press

A plan to sell millions of acres of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal would violate the chamber’s rules.

The U.S. Senate has added language to the major tax and budget policy bill that would restart and expand a compensation program for victims of nuclear radiation.

Attempts to regulate groundwater in rural Arizona have stalled in the Legislature and Gov. Katie Hobbs' office says negotiators haven't met since early April.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Apache Stronghold to halt a massive copper mining project at Oak Flat in central Arizona.

Reproductive rights advocates are suing Arizona to unravel several laws regulating abortion access in the state.

A grand jury has indicted 20 people, a mental health business and a church in a widespread sober living home scheme that targeted Native Americans and defrauded Arizona’s Medicaid program out of $2.8 billion.

President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to merge the government’s wildland firefighting efforts into a single agency.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed legislation to create an alert system for Native Americans who have gone missing in the state.

The Trump administration plans to reissue an environmental impact statement that would permit the government to exchange land with Resolution Copper at Oak Flat in the Tonto National Forest.

Snowpack was nearly nonexistent in parts of Arizona and across the U.S. this winter, and vegetation remains tinder dry — all ingredients for elevated wildfire risks.