The Arizona Department of Education released A-F school letter grades for the 2025-2026 school year on Wednesday, marking the final year schools will be evaluated under the state’s current accountability system.

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Rep. Ralph Heap, a Corporation Commission hopeful, has reemerged on social media after essentially disappearing from the campaign trail.

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Partisan election guides have infiltrated the nonpartisan judicial retention elections, with both sides airing lost lists of judges they feel are unfit to remain in their positions.

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In a year when many pollsters expect a down year for Republicans on Election Day, Arizona could face a tied legislative chamber in 2027, something that hasn’t happened here in a quarter century.

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Senate President Pro Tempore T.J. Shope and Sen. Shawnna Bolick rejected a Democratic Party campaign's claim that they have lost confidence in Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy Biggs and viewed Gov. Katie Hobbs’ victory as a “foregone conclusion.”

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The Central Arizona Project is joining Nevada’s lawsuit against the federal government over its Colorado River operating guidelines.

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Gov. Katie Hobbs and her running mate John Giles have yet to sign a pair of Arizona business owners’ “Election Stability” pledge.

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Conservative groups have massively outspent liberal organizations to support this year’s statewide ballot initiatives.

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A publicly available app provides insight into who a conservative group sees as people likely to vote with their side.

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Arizonans will learn in just over a week whether Democrats’ 2022 sweep of three top statewide offices was a fluke or a real sign the state is no longer blood red.

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Healthcare is providing much of the state’s job growth, but employers need workers and money to keep expanding. Medicaid cuts aren't helping.

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A libertarian think tank says Arizona is the “freest” state in the land, though they aren’t giving Gov. Katie Hobbs much credit for that.

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Attorney General Kris Mayes joined the Federal Trade Commission and 19 other states Monday to sue Dollar General for deceptive pricing practices, saying the discount chain routinely charges customers more at the register than the prices displayed on shelves, price tags and in advertisements.

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An Arizona Supreme Court justice on Monday called on Arizonans to help keep the state’s election workers safe as they head into next week’s midterm vote.

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A prominent GOP state lawmaker said Monday that he supports Congressman Andy Biggs’ suggestion that Arizona needs new water leadership after the state joined Nevada’s Colorado River lawsuit.

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This is the final week for candidates to hit the campaign trail, voters to mail their early ballots and state agencies to conduct business before the Nov. 3 election.

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Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap will restore the voting registration status of 25 voters whose citizenship was questioned during a review earlier this year, Attorney General Kris Mayes said Friday.

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A bipartisan group of Maricopa County housing policy leaders called on city officials and state lawmakers to improve Arizona’s affordable housing stock amid rising rents and evictions.

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The chair of the Arizona Corporation Commission has accused 12News journalist Joe Dana of being “unprofessional” with the agency’s public information officer during an email exchange over a story on data center cost shifts.

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The Arizona Capitol Times’ “Morning Scoop” video series returned from its summer hiatus on Wednesday with a panel discussing the economic effects of immigration enforcement.

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