State lawmakers agreed Thursday to use about $18 million in federal stimulus funds to ensure that the parents of 15,000 youngsters will get state help next week with child care expenses. The 23-4 vote by the Senate and 50-6 House vote comes just days before the Department of Economic Security was set to cancel the subsidized child care for people who make between 110 and 165 percent of the federal poverty level.

Gov. Jan Brewer will ask state lawmakers to extend financial help for Arizonans who have been unable to find work before their unemployment benefits run out.

A top campaign adviser to Gov. Jan Brewer has apologized Wednesday -- sort of -- for trying to make a public issue over whether Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry Goddard is gay.

Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday signed legislation which will make sparklers and similar devices legal.

Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday signed legislation which will make sparklers and similar devices legal.

Protests, both physical and verbal, are erupting at the Arizona Capitol and around the country to the legislative approval of a wide-reaching bill to combat illegal immigration.

Gov. Janet Napolitano is spending $100,000 to help convince people to get vaccinated against pneumonia.

If Jan Brewer is upset because she didn’t know Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano was going to be in Nogales on Thursday to talk border security, she has no one to blame but herself — or, at least, her staff.

Jan Brewer is not going to block Arizona voters from considering this year if their legislators deserve more money.

The former president of the state's largest phone company is being put in charge of protecting consumers against unfair utility rate hikes.

Gov. Jan Brewer will attend the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals hearing in San Francisco to watch her lawyers try to convince the judges to let the state enforce its new immigration law.

Two gubernatorial candidates are facing investigations by Attorney General Terry Goddard over their handling of public funds used in their campaigns.

So what's it worth to have hotel rooms in Paris with the right amenities -- and no construction out front?

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Vernon Parker took the first steps Wednesday to start collecting cash to battle a proposal by Gov. Jan Brewer for a temporary tax hike.

The financially strapped state will have to write checks for more than $870,000 if all the employees of Gov. Janet Napolitano are fired or quit when Jan Brewer takes over early next year.

Calling it "an important part of improving education,'' Gov. Jan Brewer signed legislation Thursday to eliminate the AIMS test -- including the graduation requirement -- paving the way for something else to measure the new Common Core standards already being implemented in Arizona schools.

A civil rights group is claiming a new memo from immigration officials proves that Jan Brewer is legally wrong in denying driver licenses to individuals in the president's "deferred action'' program.

Gov. Jan Brewer is proposing what she said is a first-in-the-nation plan to tie state aid for education to academic performance and improvement.

State lawmakers and Gov. Jan Brewer are poised to take up to $300 million they say school districts have in excess funds to balance the current state budget.

Jan Brewer is off to help the GOP raise money — in Arkansas.

The head of the Department of Economic Security is quitting after nearly two years on the job.

Gov. Jan Brewer won’t have a do-over for her swearing in, the way that Barack Obama did.

Republican legislative leaders have pulled the plug on plans for a special session to deal with the state's budget deficit.

Gov. Janet Napolitano has taken on a new policy adviser despite the hiring freeze she imposed on nonessential positions.