Doug Ducey

An attorney for Gov. Katie Hobbs says the money was handed out illegally.

In releasing its budget proposals Friday, the governor’s office said the expansion is siphoning money from underfunded public schools and would cost $1.5 billion dollars over the next decade.

Former Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s border barrier of shipping containers has been largely dismantled just in time for a new Democratic administration, costing tens of millions of dollars over just a few months while they were set up and taken down again.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs will outline her vision for the next four years during her inaugural address today, ushering in an era of divided government and Democratic ascendance in a state long dominated by Republicans.

Power will transfer in a private ceremony Monday as Katie Hobbs formally takes over from Republican Doug Ducey.

The U.S. government has sued Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and the state over the placement of shipping containers as a barrier on the border with Mexico.

Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman says the state’s schools are facing a potential funding cut of almost $1.4 billion. Arizona’s four-decade-old education spending cap would prevent schools from spending money already allocated by the state Legislature.

The Center for Biological Diversity has asked a federal judge for permission to join the Biden administration as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by Gov. Doug Ducey over his stacking of shipping containers on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The federal government is demanding that the state remove double-stacked shipping containers placed to fill gaps in the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying they are unauthorized and violate U.S. law.

A conservative think tank says a massive expansion of Arizona’s private school voucher system will likely go into effect, after public school advocates failed to gather enough signatures to block the law.