Federal immigration officials on Friday released the mother of an immigration activist, less than a day after the woman and another relative were arrested at the family's Phoenix-area home.

It's almost a case of starting over for Gov. Jan Brewer as she weighs whether to ask legislators to provide government-paid health coverage to hundreds of thousands of additional low-income Arizonans.

Just days after giving governors more time to declare whether states would commit to running online marketplace for subsidized health coverage, the Obama administration released hundreds of pages of proposed rules on required benefits and other aspects of implementing the federal health law.

Arizona has conducted its first general election using new congressional and legislative district maps, resulting in several excruciatingly tight congressional races as well as a handful of legislative contests that went undecided for more than a week after Election Day.

An Arizona serial killer says it's too stressful to appear in court on his request to skip further appeals so he can be executed quickly for six murders and other shootings that terrorized the Phoenix area several years ago.

Arizona's primary election Tuesday features a spirited race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate and heated contests for several U.S. House seats, with outcomes that will set the roster of candidates for the Nov. 6 general election.

Gov. Jan Brewer said Tuesday the federal government and parents of young illegal immigrants are at fault as she defended her order denying driver's licenses and other public benefits to those who get work authorizations under a new Obama administration policy.

Some big names in Arizona legislative politics face contested races in the Aug. 28 primary election, with redistricting fallout expanding the normal array of intraparty rivalries resulting from ideology and ambition.

Illegal immigration and border security were a combined focus of a Thursday evening televised debate between the two leading Republican candidates for an open U.S. Senate seat from Arizona.

PHOENIX — U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake and businessman Wil Cardon square off Thursday evening in a televised debate with two lesser-known Republicans in the GOP primary race for U.S. Senate.

PHOENIX (AP) — A possible plea deal in the deadly Tucson shootings that wounded then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords would send Jared Lee Loughner to prison for the rest of his life, a person familiar with the case said Saturday.

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett holds an office normally associated with dry-as-dust election matters. But Bennett's handling of some of those matters produced notable political dustups for the former legislative leader who may run for governor in 2014.

PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Jan Brewer apparently won't say until January whether Arizona should expand the state's Medicaid program under the federal health care overhaul — a decision that could present legislators with a white-hot political issue.

States starting to turn the corner on their Great Recession budget woes are taking the cautious approach, socking away millions of dollars in rainy day funds rather than restoring spending for education, health care and social services.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says a contraception coverage bill now on her desk was improved in the time since she voiced reservations about an earlier version as being intrusive.

PHOENIX — Arizona Republicans are heading to the polls to help pick a presidential nominee.

PHOENIX — Arizona Republicans are heading to the polls to help pick a presidential nominee.

PHOENIX -- Michigan is getting more attention from Republican presidential contenders than Arizona though both states share a Feb. 28 primary date and have virtually the same number of convention delegates, but that changes Wednesday, at least for a day.

PHOENIX -- Arizona is moving toward making online merchants collect sales tax on residents' purchases, a departure from the state's previous hands-off stance.

PHOENIX - Sen. Scott Bundgaard resigned from the Arizona Legislature on Friday, stepping down shortly before he would have testified to the Senate Ethics Committee on whether he should be disciplined for a February domestic incident involving a former girlfriend.

PHOENIX (AP) — A leader of a group that collected thousands of signatures to force a recall election for state Sen. Russell Pearce says the group raised and spent approximately $92,000, with Arizonans making up the vast majority of the more than 1,000 contributors.

A Mesa woman running in Senate President Russell Pearce's recall election has dropped out of the race, halting a legal challenge that claims she was a fraudulent candidate meant to siphon votes from the contest's other contender.

PHOENIX (AP) - A last-minute lawsuit filed Friday challenges the candidacy of a woman running in the recall election for state Senate President Russell Pearce, accusing her of getting a ballot spot to help Pearce, known nationally for championing legislation against illegal immigration.

SUN LAKES, Ariz. (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney took a tough line on illegal immigration and a reassuring approach on Social Security as he spent a day campaigning in Arizona, making several appearances Wednesday in the early primary state.

PHOENIX (AP) — Controversy over remarks by U.S. Sen. John McCain about illegal immigrants and wildfires flared again Thursday, as Hispanic politicians and activists reacted to the filing of federal charges accusing two U.S. citizens of accidentally starting the state's largest wildfire.

Arizona has concluded public hearings on plans to award contracts to add thousands of privately operated prison beds at several locations around the state.

PHOENIX (AP) — A commission appointed by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer is recommending sweeping changes in state government, including ones to have private companies run the Arizona Lottery and handle some environmental-protection permitting.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday made a fundraising appeal on behalf of state Senate President Russell Pearce, a fellow Republican known nationally for championing legislation against illegal immigrants.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday made a fundraising appeal on behalf of state Senate President Russell Pearce, a fellow Republican known nationally for championing legislation against illegal immigrants.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday made a fundraising appeal on behalf of state Senate President Russell Pearce, a fellow Republican known nationally for championing legislation against illegal immigrants.

PHOENIX (AP) — Maricopa County officials have completed an initial check of recall petitions targeting Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce. And they have verified there's more than enough valid signatures to force a special election that could oust the Mesa Republican.

PHOENIX (AP) — Maricopa County officials have completed an initial check of recall petitions targeting Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce. And they have verified there's more than enough valid signatures to force a special election that could oust the Mesa Republican.

PHOENIX (AP) — Maricopa County officials have completed an initial check of recall petitions targeting Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce. And they have verified there's more than enough valid signatures to force a special election that could oust the Mesa Republican.

PHOENIX (AP) — Lawyers for an Arizona death row inmate are turning to a federal appeals court in an effort to block his scheduled execution Wednesday.

State and federal courts on Wednesday denied requests by inmate Donald Beaty to block his scheduled execution because of a last-minute replacement of one of three execution drugs.

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona officials said Tuesday they will replace one of three drugs to be used in an execution scheduled Wednesday because federal officials contended the state failed to fill out a form to import the drug being swapped out.

Federal public defenders have accused the Arizona Corrections Department of violating the state public records law by withholding records on the acquisition of execution drugs.

The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday denied an appeal from a death row inmate who is scheduled to be executed next week for the murder of a 13-year-old Tempe girl.

An Arizona death row inmate Wednesday appealed a judge's ruling that leaves the prisoner on track to be executed as scheduled next week for the 1984 killing of a Tempe girl.

A judge on Wednesday denied a request by an Arizona inmate to block his execution, scheduled for next week for the 1984 killing of a Tempe girl.

PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Jan Brewer has completed action on bills passed by the Legislature during its 2011 regular session. But now she and others are talking about the possibility of a special session, most likely in the fall.

Lawmakers found Gov. Jan Brewer to be a lot like a teacher who's a tough grader — and she's not shy about sending notes home either.

A bill approved by the Arizona Legislature would end the flat right that misdemeanor DUI defendants now have under state law to a jury trial for a first offense.

Financial disclosure statements filed by Senate President Russell Pearce don't disclose his acceptance of lavish Fiesta Bowl-paid trips to out-of-state college football games.

Big names in Arizona politics are prominent elements of the Fiesta Bowl's scandal.

State Sen. Scott Bundgaard should be charged with assault in a reported case of domestic violence involving an ex-girlfriend, Phoenix police said Thursday.

State senators say Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard's plea to fellow Republicans to let him keep his leadership post included information that his ex-girlfriend handled a gun in his car during their altercation on a Phoenix freeway.

Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce has placed new legislation on illegal immigration on hold pending action on a new state budget.

Gov. Jan Brewer is calling state lawmakers into special session to consider an economic development package she worked out with members of the Republican-led Legislature.