Arizona Legislature

Legislation awaiting a House vote would override most local ordinances that now keep poultry out of many residential areas. In its place would be a state law saying that residents can have chickens -- up to nine -- as long as they comply with certain conditions.

State Rep. Brian Fernandez on his run for the State Senate and Howard Fisher of Capitol Media Services talks about the recently wrapped session of the Arizona Legislature.

A House panel voted Monday to ask voters to bar cities from cutting funding for police and sheriffs or risk losing state aid.

An attorney for business interests asked a judge Friday to block the public from voting on -- and possibly vetoing -- the $1.9 billion tax cut that largely benefits the wealthy approved last year by the Republican-controlled legislature.

A House panel voted Wednesday to make the routine declawing of cats in Arizona illegal after the chairman of the committee called it "gruesome and unnecessary.''

KAWC’s Lou Gum speaks with Rebecca Gau, Executive Director of Stand for Children Arizona on Arizona Edition.Following the passage last November of…

By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX -- The public has no legal right to know the names of jurors who are hearing cases, the Arizona Court of…

By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX -- An attorney for the Arizona Legislature is arguing to the state Court of Appeals that lawmakers -- and…

By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX -- Lawyers for the U.S. Treasury are asking a federal judge to throw out a bid by state Attorney General…

By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX -- Gov. Doug Ducey is defending his promotion of a flat income tax rate as saving the average Arizonan…