Bob Christie

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.''

Arizona voters are a step closer to getting to decide if those sentenced to death are executed by the current lethal injection method or will instead face a firing squad.

Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature are looking to enact more tax cuts just four years after the largest tax cut in state history turned state finances on their head and a $1.8 billion surplus into a deficit nearing half that size.

Arizona lawmakers want to ask voters again to pare back their right to craft their own laws or change the constitution, continuing a series of proposed changes to citizens' rights to bypass the Legislature that have seen mixed results in recent elections.The Republican-controlled House on Wednesday advanced a measure that would require backers of voter initiatives to collect signatures from all 15 counties in order to put a measure on the ballot.

The Arizona House on Tuesday approved a slightly watered-down measure backed by power companies that will give them major new protections from lawsuits they face for wildfires their equipment sparks.

The state's largest electricity provider and other utilities will get a second chance Monday to see the Arizona House consider legislation shielding them from much of the liability they currently face if their equipment starts a catastrophic wildfire.