The overall goal is to reduce groundwater overdraft, a condition in which more water is drawn from a well or aquifer than is ...

Maria Elena Cruz, a state appeals court judge, is the first Latina and first Black Arizonan to serve on the state’s most ...

Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has appointed Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona Supreme Court. The state appellate judge from rural ...

Katie Hobbs ... announced by Hobbs is to "not allow additional straws in to exacerbate depletions that are already happening," said Sarah Porter, director of Arizona State University's Kyl ...

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has appointed Maria Elena Cruz to ... justice who will uplift those who need it most.” Cruz is a University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law graduate, and ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily/AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs announced her pick for a new ... Cruz earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Arizona in 1998 and a juris doctorate ...

Here's what Gov. Katie Hobbs said when she delivered her third State of the State address at the Arizona Capitol on Monday.