PHOENIX - A former top legislative aide who has been working for a health care company is Gov. Janet Brewer's pick to head the governor's Office of Strategic Planning and Budget.

The governor of the 48th state was in the 49th state Sunday.

Secretary of State Jan Brewer is so confident that Gov. Janet Napolitano is going to be confirmed as the new head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that she has scheduled her inauguration as governor for next Wednesday.

Jan Brewer officially became Arizona’s 24th governor late Tuesday afternoon. The move came after Janet Napolitano submitted her resignation letter to Brewer, Arizona’s secretary of state, at 4:52 p.m., just hours after the U.S. Senate confirmed her as Barack Obama’s pick to head the Department of Homeland Security.

Unable to get the votes from her own party, Gov. Jan Brewer said Tuesday she's willing to accept demands by Democrats to let the state property tax return in exchange for their votes to put her sales tax hike on the ballot.

Eric Gagne, identified as a user of human growth hormone in the Mitchell Report, apologized Monday to his new Milwaukee Brewers teammates in Maryvale for “a distraction that shouldn’t be taking place.”

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The new director of the state Department of Environmental Quality is "a Bush political hack'' who has a record of interpreting laws in ways that will harm Arizona water quality, an attorney for an environmental group said Monday.

Calling it key to economic development, Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday proposed abolishing the state Department of Commerce and replacing it with what she describes as a quasi-public agency.

Democrat Terry Goddard would lose the race for governor if he faced off today against incumbent Jan Brewer, according to a new statewide poll.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday made a fundraising appeal on behalf of state Senate President Russell Pearce, a fellow Republican known nationally for championing legislation against illegal immigrants.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday made a fundraising appeal on behalf of state Senate President Russell Pearce, a fellow Republican known nationally for championing legislation against illegal immigrants.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday made a fundraising appeal on behalf of state Senate President Russell Pearce, a fellow Republican known nationally for championing legislation against illegal immigrants.

The eyes may not be the first things to go. But Gov. Jan Brewer, who turns 65 Saturday, is finding that time does take its toll - and that her vision isn't quite what it was when she was younger.

Chaparral used a 33-point second quarter to manhandle Phoenix North Canyon, 68-13, Friday in the 5A Division II Desert Valley Region opener for both teams.

Gov. Jan Brewer is refusing to make public what her department directors say will be the effect of future budget cuts, at least for the time being.

Republican lawmakers are off base in criticizing agency chiefs for cutting services to the poor, Gov. Jan Brewer said Wednesday. Brewer told Capitol Media Services it should have come as no surprise that the Department of Economic Security, the Department of Health Services and the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System all announced that they would be eliminating certain programs.