Gary Grado

Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita today tweeted a threat she received from a supporter of the Senate’s audit of the 2020 election.

Voters in Maricopa County decided to keep Superior Court Judge Jo Lynn Gentry despite a poor job evaluation from a 32-member commission that rates judges.

Julie Erfle has gone from a journalist who suppressed her fascination for politics to a political operative, beginning work in July as executive director of ProgressNow Arizona, a liberal advocacy group.

The Arizona Department of Corrections is deciding which company will run a general store that sells prisoners a wide range of merchandise, from toilet paper to television sets.

A 30-year-old political novice who has never voted shook up the race for a little known, down-ballot office in Pinal County by outmaneuvering a veteran attorney in court on a challenge to her petitions.

A bill sailing through the Legislature would make it a right for child victims to have service dogs at their side for comfort when testifying.

The Department of Public Safety has completed its look into a stash of guns and ammunition found in the Department of Economic Security building after the dismissal of the agency’s head, Tim Jeffries, in November.

The media usually seeks out the analysis and opinions of Arizona State University law professor Paul Bender when there’s a news story involving questions of Arizona law or the U.S. Constitution.

Vance Phillips and Tasya Peterson were impressed with the popularity of a Fox News tweet featuring the indictment of Rep. Ceci Velasquez on charges related to food stamp fraud.

One man is behind bars after activists halted today’s House floor session with chanting, jeering and a tussle with police.

Arizona’s “smokies” will be sporting a new title and new colors as part of an image change for the Highway Patrol. Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves said the people who patrol the highways will be called troopers instead of officers from now on, and department leaders are picking a n…

The Arizona Supreme Court has taken the unprecedented step of disqualifying itself from ruling on a case and appointing five lower-court judges to take it over.

Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal today compared Common Core opponents to “barbarians at the gate’’ and vowed to fight them to preserve the educational standards.

A bill making it legal to have a chicken in every backyard promises to bring a lot of clucking to the Legislature if the measure gets a hearing.

A small group of lobbyists with Husk Partners met in an office in 2009 at the firm as allegations of a Fiesta Bowl scandal involving illegal political contributions swirled.

The Commission on Judicial Conduct today formally accused former Justice of the Peace Lester Pearce of violating judicial canons by campaigning for his brother, former Senate President Russell Pearce, during the Legislative District 19 recall election in 2011.

U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke resigned today with praise from Washington D.C. and no mention of Operation Fast and Furious, the disastrous and deadly gunrunning scandal that has plagued his office for months. Burke’s resignation letter was vague in his reasoning to step down and so was his…

One man is serving a life sentence for fatally shooting 21-year-old Heather Quan on Dec. 23, 2006. Prosecutors have had a more difficult time bringing the shooter’s father and alleged accomplice, Larry Lloyd Carver, 59, to trial for Quan’s death.

Tom Horne has moved one step closer to ending the Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American Studies program by formally laying out his case that the program promotes racial division and portraying his nearly four-year crusade as a stand against segregation.

A jailed Green Party nominee who withdrew from the Corporation Commission race and then revoked his withdrawal moments later was disqualified to run for office, a judge ruled Sept. 14.