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Raul Grijalva, longtime Tucson congressman, dies at 77 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva died Thursday morning at the age of 77, his office and daughter said. Grijalva, in Congress since 2003, was treated for lung cancer last year, and said he would not seek to run for office again after November's election.

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The unlikely coalition that doomed Prop. 414 now should point Tucson toward a 'yes' tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Tucson voters just told the city "hell no" to a half-cent more in sales taxes to address police and housing needs. OK, now the leaders of the opposition on the Left and Right should work toward addressing our community's biggest concerns.

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Hoover: Connecting Starlink to cell phones may mean more migrants' lives saved tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Elon Musk is unexpectedly doing a good deed. Connecting cell phones to Starlink means the lives of migrants in Southern Arizona's deserts may be saved.

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Immigration buoyed population in large counties, agricultural Midwest tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Immigration was the biggest factor in population growth for many booming Sun Belt counties as well as for the agricultural Midwest - and played a significant impact between mid-2020 and mid-2024 in fast-growing states such as Arizona, Florida and Texas.

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Arizona delegation pushes largest tribal water rights settlement in U.S. history tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A settlement that will provide reliable and safe water for the Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe and the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe has been introduced in Congress, where it must be approved to take effect.

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Republican plan to exempt developers from water restrictions fails in Arizona House tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A Republican plan to give a break to housing developers who they say were treated unfairly by updated Arizona groundwater supply modeling is dead in the lack of water.

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Defense Dep't settles claims from LGBTQ+ veterans discharged under ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Veterans who were discharged under the Defense Department's “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy will be able to shed their "other than honorable" discharge status under a settlement that got a federal judge's final approval on Wednesday.

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Trump admin to roll back many EPA regulations, revisit contested water rule tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will seek to undo more than 30 regulations, including some aimed at lowering carbon emissions and curbing pollution, as well as redefining what waters and wetlands the federal government can regulate.

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Feds withhold $7M for Pima County migrant shelters, imply local officials harboring people illegally tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Department of Homeland Security told Pima County they are withholding about $7 million in funds owed for migrant shelters, essentially accusing the county of using federal dollars to encourage people to come to the U.S. to seek asylum.

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U.S.-made beer, bourbon, motorcycles & more on tariff list in Trump trade war with EU tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The European Union released a lengthy list of U.S. goods, from Kentucky bourbon to household appliances, slated for retaliatory tariffs in response to President Donald Trump’s taxes on steel and aluminum imports that went into effect overnight.

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‘Jesus is better than a psychologist’: Arizona Republicans want chaplains to be in public schools tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican politicians who accuse public school teachers of indoctrinating students with a “woke agenda” are pushing to bring religious chaplains into the same schools to provide counseling to students.

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U.S.-made beer, bourbon, motorcycles and more on tariff list in Trump trade war with EU tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The European Union released a lengthy list of U.S. goods, from Kentucky bourbon to household appliances, slated for retaliatory tariffs in response to President Donald Trump’s taxes on steel and aluminum imports that went into effect overnight.

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Trump admin cancels $21 million in funding for schools & food banks to buy from Az farmers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cancelling roughly $1 billion in already-promised spending on local food purchases for schools and food banks nationwide, including $21 million in funding for schools and food banks to buy from Arizona farmers.

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Volunteers needed for 'block party' clean up at Santa Cruz River tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Community members are invited to spend the morning cleaning in the great outdoors as part of the "Santa Cruz Watershed Day of Connection" this Saturday at Verdugo Park.

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U.S.-Ukraine deal highlights Ukraine’s wealth of critical minerals, but extracting them isn’t so simple tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Ukraine’s mineral wealth has been a key factor in its negotiations with the U.S. as the two countries work out details for a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine’s war with Russia - but what exactly do those resources include, and how abundant and accessible are they?

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Dep't of Education plans to cut nearly half of staff, paving way for closure tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Department of Education announced that it was eliminating nearly half of its workforce in a move that paves the path for the agency’s demise, a goal that President Donald Trump repeated before and after resuming office.

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Bill to fast-track small nuclear reactors for data centers advances in Az Senate tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Republican measure that would waive certain state regulations to allow data centers and other large industrial energy users to build small nuclear reactors in rural Arizona inched closer to becoming law.

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By 70-30 margin, Tucson voters overwhelmingly reject Prop. 414 sales tax increase tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: Tucson voters resoundingly rejected a half-cent sales tax measure that would have increased spending on public safety and social services. With the initial vote count showing a 53,350 to 23,084 margin against the measure, Prop. 414 was defeated Tuesday.

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U.S. agency has stopped supporting states - including Arizona - on election security tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The federal government has halted election security activities and ended funding for the Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center, that alerts state officials of election security threats across state lines.

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Anti-abortion laws remain on books despite Arizona’s constitutional amendment tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A decisive majority of Arizona voters agreed to make abortion a constitutional right last year, but dozens of anti-abortion laws remain enshrined in state law and GOP lawmakers are forging ahead with new restrictions.

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