Le Templar: A new report from staff for the Joint Legislative Budget Committee makes it clear the state now is in violation of a constitutional provision that it must either cut spending or raise taxes to eliminate deficit spending.

State election officials launched a probe Friday to find out who is paying for those campaign signs urging people to support Olivia Cortes in the Nov. 8 special recall election against Senate President Russell Pearce.

Arizona infants lag behind when it comes to getting the full list of recommended immunizations by the time they turn 2, health officials say.

Arizona infants lag behind when it comes to getting the full list of recommended immunizations by the time they turn 2, health officials say.

It's now official: Arizona is the Grand Canyon State.

It looks like most state representatives are lactose intolerant.

Banning texting while driving would make Arizona safer, but such a law would be prohibitively difficult to enforce and would fail to address the wider issue of distracted driving, the director of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety said.

 That slogan on most Arizona license plates may soon become official.

On the same day state health officials received permission to conduct tests for swine flu, Arizona was confirmed to have 130 cases. Arizona Department of Health Services interim director Will Humble said the jump in the number of confirmed cases was no cause for alarm.

Quick: What's Arizona's official nickname? Think you know? You're probably wrong.

Officials from the state-run nursing home for veterans defended the beleaguered facility during a House committee hearing Wednesday, disputing findings of a recent health inspection and offering an accounting of how state money has been spent.

PHOENIX - Stepping off a trans-Atlantic flight, Louise Anderson of London said she’s excited that her British pounds will go a long way in the United States.

Arizona’s chief financial regulator may ask state lawmakers to cap how much lenders can hike the interest on adjustable rate mortgages.

The Senate’s bipartisan immigration reform package is flopping badly with leaders of the Arizona Republican Party, said state party chairman Randy Pullen on Monday.

PHOENIX - A state official claims he was only joking but a legislator wants to know more about the official's MySpace.com page that described him as a "wild debaucher" who volunteered to help children only to indoctrinate them in lawlessness.

A series of bomb threats across Arizona, including one at the Capitol Friday morning, has some of the state’s top officials looking at passing tougher laws.

Retirement won’t be quite as comfortable for former Pinal County Manager Stanley Griffis now that a state agency is taking back pension pay it says he didn’t deserve.

Retirement won’t be quite as comfortable for former Pinal County Manager Stanley Griffis now that a state agency is taking back pension pay it says he didn’t deserve.

What Fountain Hills town officials had anticipated to be a smooth process to annex state trust land between their community and McDowell Mountain Regional Park has been anything but.

State prison officials said they hope an employment fair today with some flair will help them reduce vacancies, which have climbed to nearly one of every five jobs.

Citing recent heat-related deaths in the Phoenix area, state health officials are advising people to limit their exposure outdoors because temperatures are reaching 115 degrees and higher.