Placing foster children in homes where other children are not immunized just got easier. Governor Jan Brewer has signed a bill saying the Department of Economic Security cannot force foster parents to immunize their own children in order to be licensed.

The Arizona House has given its final OK to a bill creating tougher monitoring of scrap metal transactions. The measure, from Representative Tom Forese enhances anti-theft laws to require all scrap dealers to register with the Department of Public Safety. 

State Senators Rich Crandall and Steve Farley discuss why state lawmakers seem far from ending their current legislative session, even as it has reached its 100th day.

A requirement that foster parents immunize their own children before being granted licenses would go away under a bill approved Tuesday in the Arizona House. 

An Arizona House committee has given permission for the introduction of a supplemental appropriations bill for the state's redistricting commission.

Some groups involved with getting minorities to the polls are unhappy with legislation working its way through the Legislature.

Efforts to reach a budget agreement at the state capitol are being complicated by Governor Jan Brewer's proposal to expand Medicaid, a plan one lawmaker says is paralyzing the process.

Arizona lawmakers voted Monday to scrap an old definition in the law books that said people with mental illness were idiots.

The Arizona Senate on Monday gave preliminary approval to a bill that would ban cities and counties from destroying guns turned in at buybacks.

The Speaker of the Arizona House Andy Tobin says lawmakers are on target for wrapping up their session, but he's willing to put on the brakes to give Governor Jan Brewer a break.