Senate Republicans are proposing a nearly $8.8 billion spending plan for the coming year, a tiny -- 1.6 percent -- hike over current levels.

Saying she's run out of patience, Gov. Jan Brewer will veto any bills sent to her until she sees movement on a new state budget and her pet Medicaid expansion project.

Starting next semester, students who smoke will have to find other places to light up between classes. All Arizona State University campuses and buildings will become tobacco-free beginning Aug. 1.

With as many as 35 percent of Mesa eighth graders admitting to at least trying alcohol, the Mesa Prevention Alliance is planning an event this weekend to show them there’s another lifestyle to choose.

LOS ANGELES — What does it take to elevate the common ant from picnic pest to household pet?

The Higley Unified School District governing board voted Tuesday to eliminate several positions and make reassignments next year to address a potential $1.8 million shortfall based on current budget projections.

MULBERRY, Ark. — A small but growing number of farmers have been experimenting with an edible soybean as they look to capitalize on Americans' interest in adding non-meat proteins to their diets.

Arizona Republicans say they don't need to change their stance on immigration or even their message to attract the Latino voters who largely defected last year.

The Arizona Board of Regents will start the process next month to see if there are ways that some illegal immigrant "dreamers'' can qualify for lower tuition than they now have to pay.

The Board of Regents is free to stop collecting fees for the Arizona Students Association even if the move was political, the attorney for the board contends.

I am trying to find a way to legally copy DVDs we own to an external hard drive for storage connected to my laptop. When we take long road trips it would be nice to not have to haul all our movies along. — Bill

Gifted students will have another education option next year after the Gilbert Unified School District governing board approved creation of a self-contained classroom program.

Supporters of Gov. Jan Brewer’s performance-based education funding model for school districts and charter holders say concerns about the formula’s effects on schools in low-income areas don’t take into account the bigger picture.

WASHINGTON – Arizona could face massive budget cuts across all public programs, from education and healthcare to Army base operations, if federal budget cuts are allowed to take effect as scheduled Friday, the White House warned.

A new online tool is designed to help parents, students, teachers and school leaders around Arizona see how newly-proposed performance funding will benefit their local schools.

State lawmakers are moving to give themselves and other candidates the right to collect more money -- a lot of it -- from individuals and political action committees, even as they ask voters to effectively kill the option of public financing.

Attorney General Tom Horne and an Arizona Republican lawmaker are pushing a plan to let principals, teachers and janitors at public schools carry guns.

Five-hundred years ago, the Guarani Indians of Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia started using the plant Ka’a He’ê — translated to English as “sweet herb” — for consumption and medical treatments.

Mesa families at Eisenhower Elementary School learned Thursday what education may look like at the school next year if the district moves forward and creates a “creative and innovative” school on the campus.

Saying students are getting only one side of the debate, a state senators wants to free teachers to tell students why they believe there is no such thing human-caused "global warming.''

The presidents of the state's three universities came to the Capitol Tuesday hoping to salvage at least some of the funds they told the governor and lawmakers they need.

The presidents of the state's three universities came to the Capitol Tuesday hoping to salvage at least some of the funds they told the governor and lawmakers they need.

Arizona Museum of Natural History, 53 N. Macdonald in Mesa, is collaborating with ASU Franz Insect Laboratory to bring a special program to homeschoolers about bugs. Going Buggy Homeschool Day will feature a series of fun and factual activities, games and crafts focused on the life cycles, habitats, and eating habits of bugs. Participants will have the opportunity to meet scientists and take part in a “buzz lab” to discuss good bugs and bad bugs.

The Gilbert Unified School District will hold a meeting 6:30 p.m. Jan. 24 to gather information from parents of elementary gifted students. The meeting will be held at the district’s community education building, xxxxx, Mesa cq. A committee of gifted parents and educators recommended changes to the district’s program during a recent governing board meeting. The group now hopes to gather input on the recommendations to create two self-contained classes for students in grades four and five next school year, as well as make other changes.