Arizona Laws

Wednesday night, Adams announced that McCain will be holding a press conference at the former speaker’s Mesa campaign headquarters on Friday morning.

The two years of the 50th Arizona Legislature will go down in the history books as the years when the Legislature hit reboot on the Arizona economy and turned what was a basket case into a best case.

The last bill that the Legislature approved before adjourning for the year underwent major changes in the waning hours of the session that could be worth as much as $30 million in tax credits to some companies.

While a bill allowing religiously motivated employers to deny contraception coverage to workers spurred heated debate on its path to becoming law this session, one of its provisions was largely overlooked.

Arizona’s unemployment rate is down slightly due to growth in professional and business services and a drop in people looking for work.

It looks like Mark Mitchell has won the Tempe mayoral election.

It looks like former Fiesta Bowl CEO John Junker’s continuing cooperation with law enforcement authorities means it will be a long time before he is sentenced in federal court.

Arizona has reached an interim settlement with plaintiffs in a decades-old court case over adequacy of Arizona’s community-based services for the seriously mentally ill.

Arizona is one of more than two dozen states challenging the federal health care overhaul, but Republican Gov. Jan Brewer’s administration is moving to implement part of the contested law by reviewing health insurance rates to see if they should be labeled unjustifiably high.

Legislative officials say their public website appears undamaged after a security breach by a hacker group.