DOUG DUCEY

In "The Edge of the Plain," James Crawford explores the way that borders at once keep us apart and make us who we are.

Kari Lake and Blake Masters ran unsuccessful campaigns for state office in Arizona last year, aligning themselves closely to former President Trump.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego says he’ll challenge independent U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona in 2024.

"It’s something that provides support to those local communities," Hobbs said, referring to border communities strained by the influx of migrants.

Former Gov. Doug Ducey's stunt of a shipping container wall on the border was awarded as a no-bid contract. Sure, that makes total sense.

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 will take down former Gov. Doug Ducey's $100 million shipping container publicity stunt. With estimates of millions more to dismantle it.

Katie Hobbs took the oath of office to become Arizona’s 24th governor and the first Democrat to hold the office since 2009.

Republican Doug Ducey spent his eight years as Arizona governor outmaneuvering Democrats to advance GOP priorities and he reshaped the state in a decisively conservative direction.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey beamed as an excavator’s heavy claw smashed through the windows of an old state office building and began tearing off the façade. Ducey also cut taxes, vastly expanded school choice, restricted abortion and built a makeshift wall on the U.S.-Mexico border in defiance of a Democratic president, checking just about every conservative box. At a time when the conservative movement is almost singularly oriented around “owning the libs,” Ducey spent his two terms outmaneuvering Democrats to advance Republican priorities, reshaping his state in a decisively conservative direction.

Gov. Doug Ducey has agreed to remove the containers by Jan. 4 after the Biden administration filed a lawsuit.

Texas Republican Congressman Daniel Crenshaw of suburban Houston sounded off on 'The Story' as the Biden administration refuses to secure the southern border.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey will halt construction of a border wall built of shipping containers after reaching an agreement with the Biden administration.

Gov. Doug Ducey says Arizona will take down a makeshift wall made of shipping containers at the Mexico border, settling a lawsuit and political tussle with the federal government over trespassing on federal lands.

A decision by a federal judge means the Biden administration must halt the use of Title 42 by December 21.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey issued an executive order in August directing the state to fill gaps in the border wall.

The court complaint comes three weeks before Republican Gov. Ducey steps aside for Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs, who opposes the construction.

It didn't take all the king's horses or all the king's men, just about 20 brave souls at Gov. Doug Ducey's shipping container wall on the border.

The U.S. government sued Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and the state Wednesday over the placement of shipping containers as a barrier on the border with Mexico, saying it is trespassing on federal lands.

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, saying it is trespassing on federal lands.

The U.S. government sued Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and the state Wednesday over the placement of shipping containers as a barrier on the border with Mexico, saying it is trespassing on federal lands. The complaint filed in U.S. District Court comes three weeks before the Republican governor steps aside for Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs, who has said she opposes the construction. Ducey told U.S. officials earlier this week that Arizona stands ready to help remove the containers, which he says were placed as a temporary barrier.

The wall, the result of an August order by Gov. Doug Ducey (R), has drawn fierce criticism, with a county sheriff warning that he would arrest anyone helping build it.

Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs​ said last week she was "looking at all the options" and hasn't decided what to do about the containers after her Jan. 5. inauguration.

Republican Gov. Doug Ducey insists Arizona has a constitutional right to protect residents from “imminent danger of criminal and humanitarian crises.”

Work crews are steadily erecting hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers along the rugged east end of Arizona’s boundary with Mexico as Republican Gov. Doug Ducey makes a bold show of border enforcement even as he prepares to step aside next month for Democratic Governor-elect Katie Hobbs.

Work crews have steadily erected hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers topped by razor wire along Arizona’s remote eastern boundary with Mexico in a bold show of border enforcement by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey even as he prepares to leave office. Until protesters slowed, then largely halted the work in recent days, Ducey pressed forward over the objections of the U.S. government, environmentalists and an incoming governor who has called it a poor use of resources. Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs said last week she was “looking at all the options” and hasn't decided what to do about the containers after her Jan. 5.

The sheriff of Santa Cruz County in Arizona says he will start making arrests if shipping crates are placed along the border on federal lands.

The challenges facing the Democratic Party heading into the next campaign have come into sharp relief just a few days after the party celebrated victory in the final Senate contest of the 2022 midterms.

President Joe Biden has visited the building site for an Arizona computer chip plant to emphasize how his policies are fostering job growth in what could be a challenge to the incoming Republican House majority.

Arizona’s top officials have certified the midterm election results.

During 11 terms in office, he was a social moderate and a fiscal conservative and sparred with fellow Republicans over his strong support of free trade.

Jim Kolbe, who represented Arizona in Congress for more than two decades, has died.

Jim Kolbe, a Republican congressman who represented a heavily Democratic region of Arizona for more than two decades and was a proponent of gay rights, has died. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said in a statement that Kolbe died Saturday. Ducey ordered flags lowered until sunset Sunday.

Hobbs, currently secretary of state, has formed a transition team that is vetting potential staff and preparing her to take office.

Outgoing Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey says his Republican administration will ensure an orderly transition to Democrat Katie Hobbs.

Republican Blake Masters called Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly to concede in the Arizona Senate race.

Democrats lost a second U.S. House seat in Arizona on Monday after a former aide to Republican Gov. Doug Ducey won a seat in the state's southeast that is being vacated by retiring Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick. Republican Juan Ciscomani beat Democrat Kirsten Engel in the open 6th Congressional District seat now held by Kirkpatrick. Ciscomani is a former senior adviser to Ducey who has strong ties to the business community.

Republican Juan Ciscomani was elected to the U.S. House in Arizona's 6th Congressional District, defeating Democrat Kirsten Engel, the Associated Press projects.

Democrat Katie Hobbs has been elected Arizona governor, defeating an ally of Donald Trump who falsely claimed the 2020 election was rigged and refused to say she would accept the results of her race this year.

The appeal of Donald Trump’s movement will be put to the test Tuesday in the race for governor of Arizona.

Arizona’s clemency board has declined to recommend the governor commute a man's death sentence to life in prison, keeping the inmate's planned execution on track for his conviction in two 1980 killings.

The politics of education have changed, so universal education choice should be a ripe campaign issue for candidates this midterm elections.

President Joe Biden’s travel itinerary for his last big campaign swing before the midterm elections reveals his defensive stance in the campaign’s closing days.

Arizonans in Yuma shared their concerns about border security amid controversy over whether shipping containers should be allowed to fill border wall gaps.

Former Vice President Mike Pence is supporting Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp as he makes his closing argument Tuesday for a second term over Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams.

Republicans are pumping resources into a law-and-order campaign for governor in New Mexico by a local television celebrity, and a visit by President Joe Biden this week is geared toward shoring up support for an incumbent Democrat.

Republicans are increasingly confident in Senate candidates who party leaders had once believed were essentially unelectable or at least seriously flawed.

In one of the country's premier battleground states, a last-ditch effort from Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon has helped her pull closer with incumbent Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

The Biden Administration accused Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey of trespassing on the U.S.-Mexico border as the state places shipping containers to fill border gaps.

Arizona's governor announced the state will continue to install shipping containers along the Mexican border. The containers have been filling up gaps not covered by a border wall.

Arizona Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake is seeing an uptick in support from corporate leaders as she pushes false election conspiracies.

If Republicans take back the House in the midterm elections it will be up to Congress to hold Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas accountable for the chaos on our southern border.

The state of Arizona has begun installing shipping containers along another section of the U.S.-Mexico border to fill gaps that aren't covered by a border wall. The move announced by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey on Monday to install stacks of containers in Cochise County in south-eastern Arizona came two weeks after federal officials told him to remove containers he had placed along the border in southwestern Arizona. Ducey sued in federal court on Friday, asking a court to allow the state to keep more than 100 double-stacked containers topped with razor wire in place near the community of Yuma, which sits near the California border.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is suing the Biden administration over a demand the state remove large shipping containers along the southern border.

Arizona's Border Barrier Mission, which saw the state fill nearly 4,000 feet of border wall gaps with shipping containers, is working, Gov. Doug Ducey said.

Arizona has rejected the federal government's demand to remove more than 100 double-stacked containers filling gaps along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Republicans running for Arizona’s three top statewide offices have said they wouldn't have signed off on the 2020 presidential results if they were in office at the time of that election.

Arizona is refusing the federal government’s demand to take down double-stacked shipping containers it placed to fill gaps in the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying it won’t do so until the U.S. moves to construct a permanent barrier.

Arizona has refused the federal government's demand to take down double-stacked shipping containers it placed to fill gaps in the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying it won't do so until the U.S. moves to construct a permanent barrier instead. The Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs dug in its heels in an Oct. 18 letter to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, saying “the containers will remain in place until specific details regarding construction are provided.” A regional spokeswoman for the Bureau of Reclamation did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Arizona’s refusal in the most recent flap between the Biden administration and Republican-led border states over immigration policies.

Arizona is pushing back against a demand by the Biden administration for it to cease efforts to fill the gaps in border wall construction and to remove the barriers.

The federal government is demanding 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. The Cocopah Indian Tribe in southwestern Arizona welcomed the call to take down the containers in the latest rift between the Biden administration and Republican-led border states over how to prevent illegal border crossings. The Bureau of Reclamation also demanded in last week's letter that no new containers be placed.

Former Vice President Mike Pence praises Arizona for leading the nation in educational freedom by expanding school choice legislation to all K-12 students.

In Donald Trump’s assessment, his Vice President Mike Pence “committed political suicide” on Jan. 6, 2021.

Oregon is typically known as a bastion of West Coast liberalism where Democrats are easily elected and a Republican hasn’t served as governor since the 1980s.

Governors races seem to often operate somewhat outside of the warping effects of partisanship.

Legal abortions that restarted in Arizona this week after a court blocked enforcement of a pre-statehood ban will be able to continue for at least five weeks while an appeals court considers the case.

A court has blocked enforcement of a pre-statehood law that almost entirely criminalized the procedure.

Abortions can take place again in Arizona, at least for now, after an appeals court on Friday blocked enforcement of a pre-statehood law that almost entirely criminalized the procedure.

Abortions can take place again in Arizona, at least for now, after an appeals court on Friday blocked the enforcement of a pre-statehood law that almost entirely criminalized the procedure.

A spokesman for Kari Lake says the Republican candidate for Arizona governor didn’t mean to suggest abortion should be legal.

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs on Friday conceded that the petition to repeal the Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) expansion did not qualify for the 2024 ballot.

Supporters of abortion rights are suing to keep an old Arizona law that criminalizes nearly all abortions from being enforced.

A year ago, Arizona’s Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs was all over cable news, building a national profile as a defender of democracy and raking in cash for her campaign for governor.

An Arizona organization failed to gather enough signatures to freeze a school choice program from taking effect and putting it on the 2024 ballot.

An Arizona judge has refused to suspend her order that allowed enforcement of a pre-statehood law making it a crime to provide an abortion.

A huge expansion of Arizona's private school voucher system has taken effect and the parents of all 1.1 million school-age children can use state tax money to pay for private school tuition and other costs.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey called on Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs to unfreeze a school choice program that would benefit over 1.1 million K-12 students.

The ruling means the state's abortion clinics will have to shut down and anyone seeking an abortion will have to go out of state.

Public school advocates who oppose a massive expansion of Arizona’s private school voucher system have filed enough signatures to block it from taking effect.

An Arizona judge says the state can enforce a near-total ban on abortions that has been blocked for nearly 50 years.

Governors races often are overshadowed by the fight for control of Congress during midterm elections.

There are few places in the U.S. with a more deeply ingrained reputation as a refuge for immigrants than New York City.

The far-right forces that former Sen. John McCain successfully marginalized within the Arizona Republican Party are back and in full control, with profound implications for one of the nation’s most closely matched battlegrounds.

The Republican leaders of the Arizona Legislature won't try to defend a new law limiting up-close filming of police that has been blocked by a federal judge.

As Republican governors ramp up their transports of migrants to Democratic-run jurisdictions, the practice is getting a mixed reaction from Christian faith leaders — many of whom, especially evangelicals, have supported GOP candidates by large numbers in recent elections.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he sent the two buses of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border who were dropped off near Vice President Kamala Harris’ home in residential Washington.

Republican governors are escalating their practice of sending migrants without advance warning to Democratic strongholds, including a wealthy summer enclave in Massachusetts and the Washington, D.

Four Republicans who have promoted false claims about the 2020 presidential election and are seeking to overhaul how elections are run by becoming their state’s chief election official say they are fighting against a corrupt system.

A federal judge in Phoenix has blocked enforcement of a new Arizona law restricting the filming of police.

The Cocopah Indian Tribe said Friday that the state of Arizona acted against its wishes by stacking shipping containers on its land to prevent illegal border crossings. The tribe determined that the state put 42 double-stacked containers on its land near Yuma, said Michael Fila from its office of emergency management. The tribe wrote state officials Tuesday to inform them of their findings and concerns.

Blake Masters, with his provocative statements and problematic positions, throws a lifeline to Democrat Mark Kelly.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is hailing economic and educational cooperation with Taiwan, marked by a $12 billion investment in his state by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. Ducey spoke Thursday at a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, the latest of a series of visits by U.S. political leaders that have stirred the ire of China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory and condemns all official contacts between Taipei and foreign governments that recognize Beijing.

Taiwan's military has fired warning shots at drones from China flying over its outposts just off the Chinese coastline.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has arrived in Taiwan for a visit focused on semiconductors, the critical chips that are used in everyday electronics and have become a battleground in the technology competition between the U.S. and China.

A border wall with Mexico isn’t the issue it was during Donald Trump's presidency but plans for more barriers in Yuma, Arizona, is a reminder of obstacles that the federal government always faces: difficulty working on tribal lands and private property.

Hours before Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey declared “a major step forward to secure our border” with the installation of 130 double-stacked shipping containers, hundreds of migrants found their way around them, belying his claim. The wall isn’t the issue it was in 2018 when Congress denied Trump funding for one of his top priorities, prompting the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

Deborah Martinez-Garibay enlisted in the U.S. Army after 9/11 and did multiple tours in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon has once again denied a request from the District of Columbia seeking National Guard assistance in dealing with thousands of migrants being bused to the city from Texas and Arizona.

Republicans have found success in Democratic strongholds like Maryland and Massachusetts when they have fielded moderate candidates who could appeal to voters in both parties.

An Arizona judge is set to hear arguments on the state’s request to allow it to enforce a near-total ban on abortions under a law that has been blocked for nearly 50 years.