The state Senate preliminarily approved a bill that would cut the number of weeks people can receive unemployment benefits.

Arizona Republican Rep. Matt Gress wants to expand a state law that provides a tax credit for children to also include the number of months a person is pregnant.

Deng Atem was one of the first of the Lost Boys to come to the U.S. after fleeing Sudan. And he made his new home here in Phoenix, where he’s lived for more than 30 years. Now, he’s out with a new memoir, “Jumping Over the Ram.”

While running for attorney general, Democrat Kris Mayes vowed to undo a state land lease that provides free groundwater to a Saudi Arabian alfalfa grower. Gov. Katie Hobbs now says that’s easier said than done.

Democrats in the Arizona House of Representatives staged a protest of sorts this week — voting against all bills for the last two days. They said it's an effort to shine a light on what they call a new unwritten rule that no bill will be voted on without the support of the majority of Republican representatives.

There has been push back on the Biden administration’s plans to implement new restrictions on asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. But an Arizona congresswoman wants to see even more restrictive changes to asylum policy.

A group of Navajo residents living near what’s become a landmark waterfall in northern Arizona want to close it off to tourists and visitors, saying the increasingly popular area is being loved to death.
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Officials say a former Phoenix city manager is returning to public work as leader of a regional planning agency that makes certain policy decisions.

Every three years, the American Cancer Society issues an update of statistics for colorectal cancer, the second most common cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. Unfortunately, this year’s report shows that several positive trends are slowing or reversing.