A state lawmaker facing removal from office for violating Arizona’s Clean Elections laws was taken off one of the Legislature’s most powerful committees Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - A House subcommittee Thursday voted to nullify the Interior Department’s recently extended ban on new mining claims on more than 1 million acres of federal land around the Grand Canyon.

May 14, 2004

The push for state funding of all-day kindergarten suffered a setback Thursday as a House committee blocked a plan strongly backed by Gov. Janet Napolitano.

In a strange turn of political events, pro wrestler legend Hulk Hogan announced this week that he would make a great president. While I have doubts about that, Hogan did state that as president he would enact a “flat tax across the board.”

John Baba’s 14-year-old son was assaulted in his second week of high school by a student who was on probation.

Calling it an important part of Western culture, members of a House committee voted Monday to let schools teach the Old and New Testaments to students in public high schools.

November 29, 2004

State lawmakers took the first steps Wednesday to shoring up the state's overburdened Child Protective Services system.

Those who hope to scratch or pick their way to riches may soon get some protection from family and friends and foes.

State lawmakers took the first step late Tuesday to enact new laws designed to make life more difficult for -- and in some cases, incarcerate -- those in this country illegally.

Oct. 24, 2004

Rep. John Shadegg entered the race for House majority leader on Friday with a promise to implement meaningful reforms and give Republicans "a clean break from the scandals of the recent past."

Rep. John Shadegg entered the race for House majority leader on Friday with a promise to implement meaningful reforms and give Republicans "a clean break from the scandals of the recent past."

May 13,2004

The House Committee on Homeland Security will investigate accusations by a federal whistle-blower that technology money that could have helped secure the Arizona border was

The House Committee on Homeland Security will investigate accusations by a federal whistle-blower that technology money that could have helped secure the Arizona border was

The House Committee on Homeland Security will investigate accusations by a federal whistle-blower that technology money that could have helped secure the Arizona border was

Without a single Democrat in support, the state House on Thursday approved a package of tax cuts that its proponents say will stimulate the economy.

Indicted Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley was not appointed to a special task force on the implementation of the federal economic recovery plan, despite a claim to that effect made by his lawyers in a court motion, a White House spokeswoman said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - Jubilant Democrats on Thursday elected Rep. Nancy Pelosi as the first woman speaker of the House, the crowning celebration of newfound power the party won in the November electoral sweep.

They talk casually to each other before and after campaign events. They debate the issues, not each other. Mudslinging and cheap shots are nonexistent.

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.

Mesa lawmaker Russell Pearce should be removed from his post as head of the powerful appropriations committee, representatives of several community and faith-based groups demanded Wednesday.