Latest Arizona state government News
Foes of tax cuts, voting law changes ready petition filings
PHOENIX (AP) — Massive income tax cuts passed by the Arizona Legislature earlier this year and a series of election law changes could be put on hold until voters weigh in next year if opponents turn in enough signatures by a midnight Tuesday deadline. A coalition of...
Judge blocks Arizona laws banning school, city mask mandates
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge on Monday struck down Republican-passed Arizona laws that block schools from requiring masks and restrict the power of local governments to impose COVID-19 requirements, the latest turn in a nationwide legal battle over pandemic rules. If it...
Arizona reports 1,959 new COVID-19 cases, but no deaths
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona is reporting 1,959 new confirmed COVID-19 cases but no new deaths. The state Department of Health Services released its latest figures Monday, bringing Arizona's pandemic totals to 1,086,328 cases and 19,812 fatalities. Deaths...
200K Arizona drivers getting refunds over public safety fee
PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of drivers will be getting $32 refund checks from the Arizona Department of Transportation. About 200,000 checks are going out in the mail this month, worth about $6.6 million, according to ADOT. The Arizona...
Ducey replaces massage therapist regulatory board's members
PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Doug Ducey has ousted and replaced all five members the Arizona State Board of Massage Therapy in the wake of a newspaper's critical report about the occupational regulatory panel's handling of complaints about alleged sexual abuse by therapists. ...
Exchange: Rights concerns curb vaccinations in Mohave County
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Mohave County has the worst vaccination percentage of any county in Arizona and while some local leaders are being careful not to trample on individual freedoms, there are some residents who say they wish more was being done. According to...
EXPLAINER: As Arizona election 'audit' ends, new ones begin
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The most closely watched attempt by Republicans to examine the 2020 presidential election in a battleground state lost by former President Donald Trump is coming to an embarrassing end in Arizona, but their efforts are cranking up elsewhere. The...
GOP review finds no proof Arizona election stolen from Trump
PHOENIX (AP) — A Republican-backed review of the 2020 presidential election in Arizona’s largest county ended Friday without producing proof to support former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election. After six months of searching for evidence of...
Scottsdale workers to be trained how to identify trafficking
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Over 2,400 municipal employees of Scottsdale, a Phoenix suburb with a tourism industry serving large numbers of visitors, are to undergo training in how to identify, report and report human and sex trafficking. City employees to be trained come...
Buckle up: Arizona Republicans to show 2020 recount results
PHOENIX (AP) — Donald Trump supporters hired by Arizona Senate Republicans to review the 2020 vote count are preparing to deliver their findings on Friday, the climax of a bizarre quest to find evidence supporting the former president’s false claim that he lost because of fraud. ...
