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Randy Hoeft/The Yuma Sun via AP/Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed legislation to ensure medical licenses issued under his coronavirus executive orders stay valid if he ends the state of emergency. -
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation/Gov. Doug Ducey and a top leader in the state Legislature have filled in a key part of a new plan to boost the desert state’s increasingly strained water supply.
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The Arizona House has approved a bill that penalizes businesses that refuse to do business with firearms companies by barring them from state contracts. -
he Arizona House has voted to avert a shutdown of the state’s K-12 public school system by approving a waiver of a constitutional cap on spending. But the Senate president says she does not yet have the votes.
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Lawmakers in dozens of states have introduced bills they say are aimed at fixing problems with how elections are carried out. In Arizona, the largely Republican efforts range from requiring audits of election officials, to doing away with unmonitored ballot drop boxes, and eliminating the state’s automatic early voting list. Critics including Democrats, however, call many of these proposals voter suppression.
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A Democratic proposal that creates a new tax credit for working low-income Arizonans has been approved by an Arizona Senate committee.
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A second Arizona state representative reports having COVID-19 since the Legislature’s annual session began Monday. Tucson Democrat Daniel Hernandez Jr. said Thursday on Twitter that he tested positive for COVID-19.
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Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez was joined by First Lady Phefelia Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer Wednesday at the Arizona State Capitol where he addressed the Arizona State Legislature and tribal lawmakers about the resilience of Navajo people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Arizona’s largest teacher’s union is highly critical of Gov. Doug Ducey’s state-of-the-state address Monday, saying he offered no plan or support to keep schools open for in-person learning amid the state’s highest recorded numbers of COVID-19 infections.
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Gov. Doug Ducey wants to set aside $1 billion to remove the salt from sea water and bring it to Arizona.
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Arizona Republican lawmakers who pushed through a nearly $2 billion income tax cut in the last session are looking to repeal it and replace it with a new version.
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Arizona state Sen. Jamescita Mae Peshlakai has resigned Wednesday to take a position with the U.S. Department of the Interior, led by Secretary Deb Haaland.
