Hip-hop artist Danobeytia drops out of Tucson City Council race tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A local hip-hop artist is dropping out of the Ward 5 race for Tucson City Council. Fabian Danobeytia, who has worked in the software field, told the Tucson Sentinel he is ending his candidacy for the South Side seat.

Ganter & Glueck combine for 6 RBIs as Aztec baseball overwhelms Scottsdale tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College baseball team (41-11, 25-11 in ACCAC) rallied in the 2nd inning to take the lead for good on Friday in their game against Scottsdale Community College (26-24, 16-20).

Taking the fork: Local governments struggle with uncertainty in a time of budgeting tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The city of Tucson and Pima County are quite simply, screwed by lacking clairvoyance about the economy. Will 2026 be a horror show or Golden Age? So far, local officials appear more than happy to consider the upside. The downside is right next to it and can't be ignored.

Both sides claim victory as Arizona fetal personhood lawsuit dismissed tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A legal challenge against an Arizona law that gives fetuses rights has been dropped, putting the law back on the books despite an overwhelming majority of voters who agreed last year to make abortion a constitutional right in the Grand Canyon State.

Arizona ‘fake electors’ claim prejudice in grand jury proceeding tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Republicans who falsely claimed to be Arizona’s certified presidential electors in 2020 say their “fake elector” moniker prejudiced the grand jury and requires a remand.

Trump Is spending billions on border security. Some residents living there lack basic resources. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Although billions of dollars flow into the majority-Latino communities along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, many remain among the poorest places in the nation, a disparity between the size of governments’ investment there and how little it’s reflected in the quality of life.

Lawmakers fear AI data centers will drive up residents’ power bills tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Proposals in state legislatures seek to ensure that data centers don’t result in increased rates for other electric customers, but those goals are also under attack from President Donald Trump, with policies to block enforcement of all state climate policies and boost coal production.

Why Easter is called Easter & other little-known facts about the holiday tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Easter is quite similar to other major holidays like Christmas and Halloween, which have evolved over the last 200 years or so. In all of these holidays, Christian and non-Christian (pagan) elements have continued to blend together.

Hobbs vows to veto all bills until disability funding crisis resolved tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s Democratic governor has promised to veto every piece of legislation that Republicans send to her until the legislature passes a “reasonable, negotiated” funding bill to prevent the state’s Division of Developmental Disabilities from going broke next month.

Az militia founder wrongly identified as ICE agent in viral window-smashing video tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Social media posts falsely claimed a man with connections to Arizona and far-right militias — Michael "Lewis Arthur" Meyer — was the ICE agent who smashed a car's window with an axe to apprehend a Guatemalan immigrant. But that man has not been hired by ICE and is currently in Oklahoma spreading conspiracy theories there.

'Constitutional crisis': Phx lawmaker to visit man wrongfully deported to El Salvador tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Phoenix, announced Wednesday that she is planning to travel to an El Salvador megaprison to attempt to visit a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to that country.

4th Circuit OKs inquiry into Trump’s efforts to return wrongfully deported Maryland man tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In a sharp rebuke on Thursday, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s request to further delay an inquiry into the wrongful deportation of a Maryland father.

Kozachik: Next Ward 6 councilmember must do homework, be principled tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The neighbors and businesses in Ward 6 deserve to know where someone committed to the full upcoming term stands on the issues that matter to residents of Midtown. — former Tucson City Councilmember Steve Kozachik

Show older
Tucson Sentinel Mastodon

Tucson Sentinel's independent nonprofit newsroom learns from & informs Southern Arizonans about the community challenges & unique culture of our Borderlands.