PHOENIX — Nearly a fourth of Maricopa County residents, or about 900,000 people, have been immunized against the new swine flu, according to estimates released this week. But now that the vaccine is finally available to anyone who wants it, public-health officials are noticing a drop-off in demand.

Thousands show up for a free ride on the light rail. Free rides continue through New Year's Eve. 

The Tribune Editorial Board spent a long time today discussing the implications of today’s formal announcement that Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano will be nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after President-elect Barack Obama takes office Jan. 20. I learned from those chats that I’m holding on to an antiquated idea: that elected officials make a contract with the voters when they run for office to serve a specific period of time for a specific purpose.

Government officials cannot claim immunity when their decision to defer action results in injury or death to someone else, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled.

A serious misstep during Sunday's meeting for Guadalupe residents to debate alternatives for local law enforcement should be a strong reminder that any time a majority of people on a government body gathers to discuss public business, state law requires that the public - including the media - be allowed to witness the conversation.

Everything on a public official’s computer is not necessarily a public record, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

Public officials may know the weighty responsibility they bear in conducting public business, but often they wrongly interpret that responsibility as one they bear alone.

Elected officials that want to put their names and photos all over brochures, press releases, web sites, public service announcements and even billboards are going to have to ‘fess up if they're using public dollars to do it.

PHOENIX -- Arizonans are legally entitled to know what their public officials have been doing, even if it's only going with the security detail to the cleaners, the state Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

PHOENIX -- Arizonans are legally entitled to know what their public officials have been doing, even if it's only going with the security detail to the cleaners, the state Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

Another simple request by a reporter to see a public document was delayed by the Scottsdale Unified School District, not due to spite, due to policy.

Members of the public got the chance to question U.S. Border Patrol officials from the Yuma Sector on Thursday.

Scottsdale City Manager Jan Dolan’s self-evaluation and those of three other top officials are expected to be released today following a unanimous City Council decision not to appeal a court ruling.

A Higley school board member blasted her colleagues for not allowing parents to comment at a meeting Wednesday night on a band assistant recently charged with raping a student.

The wife of a top Scottsdale fire official was awarded a $3,000 contract to produce chocolate candies distributed to every city employee with an awards ceremony invitation.

The Arizona Public Records Law might as well be kept in the Abu Ghraib prison for all the abuse it takes.

Federal special prosecutor Peter Fitzgerald's glacial, year-long investigation into who leaked to columnist Robert Novak that the wife of a Bush administration critic was a covert CIA agent has yet to produce the source — or sources — of the leak.

Pinal County Superior Court Judge Kevin White needs to send a strong message that no Arizona city can conspire with powerful interests to hide public information in violation of state law.

Almost three years after Spur Cross Ranch was purchased to keep it undeveloped, the 2,150-acre preserve in Cave Creek has yet to be opened to full public use.

Getting your children to school safely is only half the battle. How do you know they’ll be safe on campus?

“Next week” finally arrived for Republican gubernatorial candidate Don Goldwater. The GOP hopeful on Monday filed several thousand $5 contributions needed to qualify for public campaign financing — after months of saying he was close.