Janet Napolitano says there’s a good reason that her face is on billboards around the state.

HERMOSILLO, MEXICO - Sonora and Arizona can compete together economically against the rest of the world — but only if there is an easy method for people to cross the border legally, the governor of the Mexican state said Tuesday.

Gov. Janet Napolitano said Wednesday she's now ready to support having independents vote in the state's presidential preference election - a move she admitted would have given the candidate she backed a chance of actually winning the state.

They risked their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and lived to tell about it. On Saturday, soldiers from the Arizona National Guard were formally thanked for their service by Gov. Janet Napolitano and Arizona Guard commander Maj. Gen. David Rataczak at the Guard’s annual conference in Carefree.

Gov. Janet Napolitano says if Congress wants to stimulate the economy it should give at least some of the money to her - or, more to the point, directly to Arizona and other states.

Arizona has long been represented in the minds of other Americans by the Grand Canyon and the saguaro cactus. Now, that’s the way the state will be represented in their pockets as well.

It doesn’t look like the state’s next governor will earn any more than Jan Brewer.

It doesn’t look like the state’s next governor will earn any more than Jan Brewer.

May 14, 2004

Would you choose the same person for lieutenant governor that you supported for secretary of state?

In today’s business world, one of the first things a business consultant asks the CEO or owner of a company is, “Do you have a succession plan?”

When Janet Napolitano decided in January 2009 she’d rather work for Barack Obama than finish out her term as Arizona governor, it created a political tsunami of sorts.

It will take a few months before Arizona’s university and community college leaders have a full picture of how the governor’s proposed budget cuts will impact their institutions.

Samuel P. Goddard, who served two contentious years as governor of Arizona in the 1960s while facing a hostile Legislature, died Wednesday after a long illness. Goddard’s short tenure as the state’s chief executive ended after he repeatedly chose to pursue courses of action that proved less than popular with lawmakers and voters.

Janet Napolitano starts her second term Thursday as a much different leader than when she first became Arizona’s governor in January 2003. Then, she was a politician of promise, but largely untested, who had won election by the narrowest of margins.

Life improved dramatically for Clara Gillespie when she moved from a skilled-nursing home to a retirement community in the East Valley.

Former Arizona Gov. Raul Castro, who in the 1970s served as the state's first and only Hispanic governor, was detained at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint after the vehicle he was traveling in triggered a radiation sensor.

January 10, 2005

January 10, 2005

PHOENIX - Gov. Janet Napolitano announced Wednesday that she will appoint Elliott Hibbs, a veteran state official who most recently served as state Revenue Department director, to serve temporarily as state treasurer after David Petersen resigns his elective post.

December 16, 2004

Gov. Janet Napolitano thinks it’s time for Arizona to recognize that not all marriages come with a state license. Scottsdale, Tempe and Phoenix already do by extending health insurance and other employee benefits, previously available only to legal spouses, to unmarried domestic partners.

Arizona taxpayers are going to spend at least $100,000 - if not more - to pay for a conference of governors that never occurred.