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  The Arizona Supreme Court will decide whether a measure that voters overwhelmingly approved to require disclosure of most anonymous campaign spending is constitutional — and, in the process, it could potentially reshape free speech jurisprudence in the state.

  A coalition of western Apaches returned to federal court in Arizona Wednesday to try again at stopping the construction of a copper mine that would destroy a 2,400-acre holy site in the Tonto National Forest.

  A coalition of Arizona,15 other states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over claims it unlawfully withheld billions in congressionally-approved funding previously slated for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

  Tucson’s Loft Cinema is among dozens of organizations nationwide to lose federal grant money from the National Endowment for the Arts in the past week after the Trump administration set its sights on gutting the agency.

  The creation of the Turquoise Alert System cleared its final legislative hurdle on Wednesday when it passed the state House of Representatives unanimously

  Clarence Boykins, an Air Force veteran and longtime advocate for Tucson’s Black community, died Sunday, May 4. He was 82.

  The Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that potential major cuts to Medicaid under consideration by Republicans could mean states would have to spend more on the program, reduce payments to health care providers, limit optional benefits and reduce enrollment.

  The same legislative Republicans who have accused Arizona’s governor of appointing unqualified people to head state agencies are trying to nix qualification requirements for their own appointments to a litany of state boards and commissions.

  Public education advocates say they’ll work to kill a Republican effort to add private school vouchers to the Arizona Constitution by tying them to renewing funding to increase teacher pay — even if that means forfeiting millions in public school funding.

  The Rhode Island District Court temporarily blocked the implementation of an executive order that sought to dismantle three federal agencies “well past the studs,” eliminating programs they are bound by the law to carry out.

  Former Arizona lawmaker and University of Arizona Vice President George Cunningham died on Tuesday. He was 80.

  Starting Wednesday, U.S. airports will begin asking for a Real ID or another form of approved federal ID to travel on domestic flights, though U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem says you're still probably fine without one for now.