Nick Blumberg

The Maricopa County Elections Office has started to count outstanding ballots from Tuesday's general election, and will continue tabulating every day until it's done.

About 160,000 early and provisional ballots still have yet to be tabulated in Maricopa County. Election officials will start counting again Thursday morning and hope to have them done by the middle to end of next week.

Arizonans who haven’t already cast their ballot can head to the polls Tuesday. Two of Arizona’s congressional seats are among the most hotly contested races in the nation. Those races and several statewide offices have seen massive spending by candidates and outside groups.

The historic ruling making marriage between same-sex couples legal in Arizona has started to have wider effects. State health officials are looking into changes to vital records, and some people may now be able to carry a spouse of the same sex on a health plan offered by their company.

The Fiesta Bowl has announced its new title sponsor after its longtime sponsor pulled out earlier this year.

Former Arizona representative David Burnell Smith has died. He was the first state lawmaker ordered out of office by the Citizens Clean Elections commission.

A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to nearly two decades behind bars in the death of a former Arizona State University football player.

One of the items on this year's ballot is proposition 304, which would raise the salary for Arizona's legislators from $24,000 a year to $35,000 a year.

The Phoenix City Council has approved a measure to help safeguard water supplies against a future Colorado River shortage.

Lesbian and gay couples around Arizona began marrying Friday after a federal judge overturned the state’s ban on marriage between same-sex couples. Advocates gathered Friday night in central Phoenix for a celebration.