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  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighed more than $600 million in recent financing to support renewable energy in rural Arizona, including $83.5 million to Trico Electric Cooperative to expand battery storage and increase the reliability of electricity for residents on the Pascua Yaqui Reservation.

  Former president Donald Trump told a Tucson crowd Thursday that undocumented immigrants and refugees were "raping and sodomizing" American women, and "walking off with pets." "We are being conquered and occupied by a foreign element," said the Republican candidate.

  The mother of two underage girls married to religious leader Samuel Rappylee Bateman testified Wednesday in the trial of two Arizona men accused of aiding and participating in Bateman’s child sex abuse ring.

  LGBTQ+ voting rights advocates are raising concerns over Arizona’s strict voter ID laws that were reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court last month. The reason? The law inadvertently makes it harder for transgender people to vote.

  Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes wants Attorney General Kris Mayes to provide elections officials guidance on how Arizona can enforce part of a voter registration law that the U.S. Supreme Court recently allowed to go into effect, even as another court weighs its constitutionality.

  States have imposed a wide range of abortion rules since the Supreme Court ended constitutional protection more than two years ago,and voters in Arizona and nine other states will decide whether to move in that direction in November..

  Facing a fiscal deadline in just over two weeks, House Republicans on Wednesday abandoned plans to vote on a budget patch that would have kept the government funded into the new year after support for the plan cratered.

  Arizona may be the next state to implement a ban on cell phones in classrooms, but parents and teachers say they have doubts about whether legislation is the solution.

  Election deniers are now putting energy into grassroots organizing, a quieter version of the loud-and-proud campaigning led by former President Donald Trump that occurred in the movement’s nascent days.

  Backdropped by the eponymous cacti at Saguaro National Park East, a Biden administration official said this week that Arizona will receive $10 million in funding to help mitigate wildfires.

  With the election less than two months away, control of the presidency and both national legislative bodies rests on a veritable knife's edge - here are five key House races to watch in November, all rated as "toss-ups."

  Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and 19 other Western governors are prodding Congress to move more urgently to address a wildfire crisis that has grown worse in recent years.