Arizona
02/03/2012 - 07:15 AM
PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona Rep. David Schweikert is preparing to take on fellow Republican Rep. Ben Quayle in a primary fight, even as Quayle struggles to decide in which district to run....
02/03/2012 - 03:10 AM
PHOENIX (AP) -- Former Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce says a recent campaign finance filing isn't an indication that he's again running for public office....
02/02/2012 - 09:01 PM
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- The Republican who nearly ousted Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in 2010 has called a press conference where he's expected to announce he's in the race to replace her....
02/02/2012 - 06:17 AM
PHOENIX (AP) -- Gov. Jan Brewer is warning Arizona lawmakers that she won't consider bills on public employee unions before the Legislature approves her proposed changes to the state government's personnel system....
02/01/2012 - 10:33 AM
PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was sitting on more than $900,000 in campaign cash when she stepped down from office last week, a hoard that she could use to help the Democratic Party hold onto her southern Arizona seat, support a charity, or stash away for an eventual return to politics....
02/01/2012 - 08:09 AM
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- An architect of state and local laws cracking down on illegal immigration is a leading Republican officeholder in Kansas, but business groups in his home state are asking legislators to move in the opposite direction by starting an unusual program designed to give illegal immigrants hard-to-fill jobs....
02/01/2012 - 12:59 AM
PHOENIX (AP) -- The author of the state's controversial immigration law has taken his voice from the halls of the State Senate to the radio airwaves....
01/31/2012 - 07:45 PM
PHOENIX (AP) -- Republican legislators are launching a push against Arizona public employee unions with bills that include a ban on collective bargaining with government workers, a change that would be felt in school districts and local governments....
01/31/2012 - 08:31 AM
PHOENIX (AP) -- Versions of two illegal immigration bills rejected last year by the Arizona Senate have been reintroduced for possible consideration this year....
01/31/2012 - 01:03 AM
PHOENIX (AP) -- Democrat and Republican lawmakers are hoping Arizona will join with 14 other states in limiting how and when jails can shackle pregnant inmates....