Arizona Legislature

Backed by elected officials from rural areas, Democratic lawmakers unveiled what they hope will be a plan to finally provide some protections against their groundwater drying up.

Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature have reached a deal on a pared-down state budget after lengthy talks with Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and were working Tuesday to brief their members with an eye on potentially voting on the spending plan in the coming days.

Border security legislation stalled Tuesday, at least temporarily, amid concerns by one senator about some of its provisions.

House Democrats lost their privilege Tuesday of using meeting rooms after they conducted a "drag story hour,'' what Speaker Ben Toma called "radical activism to promote dangerously perverse ideology.''

Gov. Katie Hobbs has given up on her demand to curb a program that allows any parent already sending their child to private or parochial schools to now get the bill picked up by taxpayers.

A Tucson Democratic lawmaker is asking that an ethics complaint filed against her by three Republican lawmakers be dismissed.

Three first-term Republican lawmakers filed a complaint Monday accusing Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton of violating House ethics rules with her admitted action of hiding Bibles.

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.