Only two high school juniors are chosen annually from each state to go to Girls Nation. This year, both Arizona delegates live in the East Valley.

Arizona is halfway to making sparklers legal.

The Arizona House of Representatives has tempered a divisive bill that would expand the state's religious freedom law.

Oct. 24, 2004

A House-passed package of tax cuts will cut state revenues by more than $940 million a year by the time it is fully implemented seven years from now, a new report shows.

A House-passed package of tax cuts will cut state revenues by more than $940 million a year by the time it is fully implemented seven years from now, a new report shows.

An effort to broaden tax exemptions for religious organizations is facing bipartisan opposition in the Arizona House of Representatives.

There has been a lot of talk in the opinion pages recently about the Quality Education & Jobs Act, which seeks to adequately fund K-12 education, universities and children’s health care. A lot of the criticism comes from lobbyists who represent special interest groups, rather than the interests of real Arizona parents and students.

Ahwatukee Foothills resident Loraine Pellegrino has been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Last month, delegates from the Arizona Republican Party State Convention named her as one of 29 delegates to represent at the August National Republican Convention in Tampa, Fla.

 On Tuesday, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform continued a hearing on the collapse of financial titans Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and American International Group (AIG).

The governors of Arizona and the northern Mexican state of Sonora are expected to sign a deal Saturday aimed at combatting gunrunning and sharing databases of fugitive felons on both sides of the border.

Sen. John McCain aside, Arizona is shaping up to be a swing state in the 2008 presidential election.

State police said Friday that they are checking the security of the agency’s computer system after an attack by hackers and they are investigating to determine the extent of the infiltration.

The top Democrat in Arizona's House of Representatives plans to outline details of a school and community safety plan he expects to introduce in the Legislature.

Arizona politicians will be able to announce their intent to see another office whenever they want under the terms of legislation approved Monday by the state House of Representatives.

The House voted 44-15 to let insurance companies take up to $50 million in credits against taxes they owe the state in the next three years if they invest that much in new high-tech firms.

The state House voted Thursday to scrap the generous retirement plan enjoyed by elected officials and judges -- but not in a way that would affect any of them.

House Speaker Andy Tobin is sidelining two anti-union measures rather than bringing them to the floor for a divisive -- and potentially losing -- vote.

Purchasers of new homes who don't file construction defect lawsuits within eight years are out of luck, at least according to the Arizona Supreme Court.

If Arizona "dreamers'' are going to get state drivers' licenses, they're going to have to wait for a court order.

State lawmakers took the first steps Tuesday to letting teachers legally carry weapons in at least some public schools.

Saying they are promoting transparency, members of a House panel voted Tuesday to force cities and counties to negotiate with public employee unions in the open.

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal laws prohibiting people who are armed from going into bars, restaurants and other places where alcoholic beverages are sold.