Tucson residents lined up outside a police substation Tuesday morning to surrender guns in exchange for gift cards under a gun turn-in program organized by a City Council member, as gun-rights advocates mounted a counter effort to buy guns no longer wanted.

Arizona residents will mark the two-year anniversary of the 2011 shooting of then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Tuesday with bells ringing across Tucson amid a heated national debate over gun control.

TUCSON — Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband launched a political action committee aimed at curbing gun violence on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the Tucson shooting that killed six people and left her critically injured.

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.

A smaller Republican majority in the Senate ousted incumbent president Steve Pierce of Prescott on Wednesday, replacing him with Andy Biggs from Gilbert.

Plans by Republicans to craft their own alternative to an open primary initiative blew apart late Friday as some party members balked.

In the May 5 edition, you reported on the passage of a bill that changed the designation of an intersection, which in turn changed the law on running a yellow/red light, changing the violation standard.

Motorists thinking they’ve beat the red light won’t be getting any help from the state in beating the ticket, at least not this year.

Motorists thinking they’ve beat the red light won’t be getting any help from the state in beating the ticket, at least not this year.

Republican lawmakers voted Wednesday to spend tax dollars to go to court to challenge the maps drawn by the Independent Redistricting Commission.

Arizona motorists who “gun it” in hopes of beating the red light could get a better chance of doing that without getting a ticket.

State senators refused Wednesday to let employers cite religious reasons to refuse to provide coverage for birth control for their workers.

East Valley police agencies are taking a wait and see approach to a proposed law that would limit when their photo radar systems could ticket drivers who run a red light.

PHOENIX -- Arizona drivers may get a bit of leeway in trying to make the light without getting nabbed by a camera for running a red light.

Arizonans will not get a chance to decide if they think photo radar and red light cameras are a good idea.

State senators voted Monday for legislation that could effectively undermine any effort by voters to hike their own sales taxes for education.

State senators approved legislation Thursday some charge is designed to weaken public employee unions.

Teachers who promote "partisan doctrine" in the classroom would be automatically fired and districts that allow it would lose state funding under the terms of legislation approved Wednesday by a Senate panel.

Teachers who promote "partisan doctrine" in the classroom would be automatically fired and districts that allow it would lose state funding under the terms of legislation approved Wednesday by a Senate panel.

State lawmakers are moving to suspend or fire teachers whose vocabulary is a little too salty.

State lawmakers are moving to suspend or fire teachers whose vocabulary is a little too salty.

State lawmakers are moving to suspend or fire teachers whose vocabulary is a little too salty.

Arizona voters may finally get a chance to pull the plug on those controversial photo radar and red light cameras.

State lawmakers are weighing whether to let those who have insurance to pay for injuries their dogs may cause ignore county leash laws and homeowner association rules.