The number of Arizonans who signed up for Affordable Care Act health insurance dropped by 3 percent this year, according to preliminary figures released Friday. A total of 196,231 Arizona residents ...

Evidence of the failure of Arizona's child welfare system comes from multiple sources The agency is overwhelmed, but lawmakers are unlikely to approve more funding without better oversight Gov. Doug ...

The status quo is usually no cause for celebration. But lawmakers' extension of Proposition 301 is one big exception. Some may shrug their shoulders. For them, continuing the education tax may have ...

It’s called the Invest in Education Act, a call for Arizonans to invest more money in the schools. Just not their own. Money, that is. Instead, the Arizona Education Association and others are hoping ...

The DES chief marketing officer is fired after filing a hostile-workplace complaint Fired worker says DES gave a $60,000 no-bid contract to a friend of Director Tim Jeffries Firings continue at the ...

He writes in cursive, but Gov. Doug Ducey doesn't want a stand-alone law to require it for Arizona's schoolkids. In his first veto of the legislative session, the Republican governor penciled out ...

Ex-Juvenile Corrections Chief Donna Markley, who was ousted for firing workers, seeks a settlement. Markley says Gov. Doug Ducey illegally fired her threatens to sue unless she gets concessions.

It’s beginning to look like former Arizona attorney general Grant Woods, the late Sen. John McCain’s long-time friend and former chief of staff, actually means it when he says we all should put ...

Arizona’s schools — our students and teachers — need additional investment right now, and they need a multiyear funding commitment from the state. That is why I, after careful consideration of all the ...

The state budget negotiated behind closed doors hit a snag over education funding The budget is a mix of the good, the bad and the timid Arizona needs to move beyond recession-era thinking It’s ...

Suddenly, Gov. Doug Ducey has found the money for a 9 percent pay raise for Arizona's teachers, with the promise of another 5 percent in each of the two following years. Suddenly, the governor who has ...

Private prison operator GEO Group again is being sued for sexual harassment of women GEO Group paid $140,000 in 2013 to settle a separate federal suit of sexual harassment The federal government has ...