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Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs laid out a vision for the new legislative session Monday that focuses on helping average Arizonans struggling with high costs of housing and child care by proposing a series of measures to boost new home construction, limit short-term rentals and set up a new public-private partnership designed to lower soaring child care costs.

An inmate who died in June at the state prison in Yuma just days after undergoing hernia repair surgery succumbed from an unrelated and natural cause, according to an autopsy performed after a federal judge overseeing historically bad Arizona prisoner healthcare ordered the death review.

In the final week of the 2024 presidential election campaign, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign is hoping efforts like the Republicans for Harris group in Arizona and a companion outreach effort to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will help peel off enough GOP and Republican-leaning independent voters to eek out a victory in the swing state.

Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs won’t have much room for new spending on education, water -- or just about anything else -- in the remaining two years of her initial term as Arizona's chief executive.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs demoted three officials running state agencies to deputy director posts after a judge ruled that her move to name them and other agency heads as "deputy executive directors'' to avoid a contentious Senate agency director confirmation process was illegal and there was no hope the trio could win confirmation.

The families of state or local police officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians who are killed on the job as the result of a criminal act will get an extra $250,000 payment on top of already robust benefits if voters approve Proposition 311 in November.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake has an image problem with some Arizona voters that she'll need to erase if she is to win November’s election against her Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake on Thursday agreed to appear in a debate with her Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, in advance of the November election, a decision that came a week after Gallego said yes on the original deadline.

On Friday, Gallego's campaign told the Arizona Clean Elections Commission, which holds candidate debates that are widely viewed across the state, that’s he’s prepared to participate under their standard format. But Lake’s campaign has been hesitant to agree, although a campaign spokesman said they are in ongoing "productive conversations'' about a Clean Elections debate.

Republican Kari Lake is headed into a general election battle against Democrat Ruben Gallego in her quest for a U.S. Senate seat, but the former television anchor who reinvented herself in the mold of Donald Trump has a heavy lift ahead.