Bob Christie

Arizona won’t ban the People's Republic of China from buying property here after Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a Republican-backed measure that would have added to the growing list of states banning the communist nation from making land purchases over national security concerns.

The Arizona Legislature violated the state constitution's Gift Clause in 2023 when it earmarked $15.3 million for the non-profit foundation that runs the Prescott Frontier Days rodeo, a judge has ruled.

With a hard deadline of just over a month before Arizona government shuts down if a new state budget isn’t enacted, Republican lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs -- or at least her staff -- are finally talking.

Arizona’s largest electricity provider notched two huge financial wins in the 2025 legislative session with last week's approval of new laws by Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs.

Republicans who have championed school choice programs, including a voucher program that allows state money to fund private school tuition, now want to require Arizona's public school districts to let private school students compete on their sports teams.

Arizona’s wobbly budget picture just got a lot bleaker as the impact of recent moves by the Trump Administration throws a monkey wrench into the state and national economies.

The Arizona Legislature is wrangling with how to craft a plan to actually get the money to the rodeo despite differing opinions on how to legally do it.

Arizona lawmakers gave approval Monday to two different ways to raise their own pay, adding a plan to give a major increase in daily expense payments to legislators who live in Maricopa County to an existing proposal that seeks to ask voters to retroactively OK inflation adjustments to their yearly salaries.

Worries that established neighborhoods would be overrun with high-density housing, that developers would take advantage of leases and even that witches could move in led a deeply divided Arizona house on Thursday to reject a measure giving churches the right to put homes on their land.

Gov. Katie Hobbs is now offering up her own plan to override some city regulations to allow for more "starter homes.''