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'Eternally complex problems': Bipartisan advocates talk affordable housing in Az tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A bipartisan group of housing reform advocates, from current and former state lawmakers to government leaders, gathered last Thursday to talk about the lack of affordable housing in Arizona and solutions.

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Humane Society fires Farley for 'terribly negligent' handling of missing small pets tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Steve Farley, the CEO of the Humane Society of Southern Arizona, has been fired and his second in command pushed out in the wake of more than 250 small animals going unaccounted for after being transferred from the San Diego Humane Society in August.

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With move from pandemic to endemic, AZ changes how it reports COVID data tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Department of Health Services has updated its COVID-19 dashboard to remove some data and changed up its reporting on the virus to fall more in line with how the agency handles reporting other respiratory illnesses.

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How does a 'frozen' U.S. House function without a speaker? Everyone’s got an opinion. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The stunning ouster of U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday — the first time a speaker has been removed in Congress' 234-year history — created a leadership vacuum in the chamber and left multiple questions about how legislative business would proceed.

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Shelters can help homeless people by providing quiet and privacy, not just a bunk and a meal tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Homeless shelters struggle to provide dignified spaces that offer privacy, storage space and quiet environments, but people need this kind of environmental support in order to battle recurring physical and mental health issues that often accompany homelessness.

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Nearly a third of Az teacher slots vacant this school year, highest in eight years tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Nearly one-third of teaching positions in Arizona public and charter schools were still vacant one month into the school year, according to a new report, the most in eight years of data on school vacancies.

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Latest student debt relief plan could save 11,700 Arizonans $840 million tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The Biden administration said Wednesday that it has cleared the way for another $9 billion in student debt relief for as many as 125,000 borrowers – 11,700 of them in Arizona.

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States sweeten offers to computer chipmakers to outdo one another tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Since Congress passed the $52.7 billion CHIPS Act in 2022 to encourage domestic semiconductor manufacturing design and research, states have been competing to lure chipmakers by sweetening the pot with tax credits and other enticements.

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Hobbs ends leases for water-guzzling alfalfa farms owned by Saudi Arabia tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs terminated the lease of state trust land by a controversial Saudi Arabian company, and said the state would not renew the farm's leases next year. The deals have been controversial because of the large amounts of water used to grow alfalfa for export.

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Ehler, Loredo, Ruiz & Sanchez net goals as Pima men flatten Mesa tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s soccer team (10-1, 7-1 in ACCAC) secured another double-digit win season as they picked up a 4-1 win on Tuesday at home.

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McCarthy abandons another bid for U.S. House speaker, votes on spending bills canceled tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
California Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday evening he will not try to become speaker for a second time, ending his tenure holding the gavel after eight GOP lawmakers and Democrats voted to remove him from leadership.

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Biggs, Crane join other right-wing Republicans in historic vote to oust McCarthy as speaker tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Dissident Republicans in the U.S. House voted with Democrats on Tuesday to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker, a historic move that came just nine months after he secured the gavel following days of negotiating with the GOP’s right flank and 15 rounds of voting.

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UA's Manuel Muñoz wins MacArthur 'genius grant' for fiction writing tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
A University of Arizona professor of English has been tapped for the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship program — known as a "genius grant." Manuel Muñoz was recognized for his fiction that depicts "with empathy and nuance the Mexican American communities of California’s Central Valley."

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A men’s movement takes the reins in a nationwide quest to end abortion tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Overwhelmingly, men are driving the quest to restrict and remove women’s reproductive rights in as many states as possible, and a more extremist male-dominated faction has risen up who are finding support in conservative churches and among conservative Christian lawmakers.

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Americans give nursing homes a D+ grade for quality of care tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Americans give nursing homes an average D+ grade for quality of care, and as many adults say they would be somewhat or very uncomfortable living in a nursing facility, more women than men cited personal safety as a major concern.

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Forest Service will ignite prescribed burns on Mt. Lemmon starting Oct. 20 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Federal and state officials will begin a series of prescribed burns in mid-October on Mt. Lemmon near Summerhaven to "restore healthy and resilient forest conditions, the U.S. Forest Service announced.

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How the seeds for 'High Times' magazine were planted in Phoenix tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Author Sean Howe discusses his new biography of Arizona-born Thomas King Forçade, founder of the legendary marijuana publication "High Times" and a legendary counterculture figure.

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Recalling the days when Phoenix cops cracked down on the underground press tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
An excerpt from the new biography "Agent of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s," about the founder of the marijuana-themed counterculture magazine and head of the Underground Press Syndicate, who grew up in Phoenix.

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Kari Lake, who falsely claims she’s the 'lawful governor' of AZ, files to run for U.S. Senate tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Kari Lake has filed paperwork to begin a run for U.S. Senate in 2024, even as she contends she was actually elected Arizona's governor in 2022 and continues to wage a legal battle seeking to throw out her loss to Katie Hobbs.

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Kari Lake, who falsely claims she’s the 'lawful governor' of AZ, files to run for U.S. Senate tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Kari Lake has filed paperwork to begin a run for U.S. Senate in 2024, even as she contends she was actually elected Arizona's governor in 2022 and continues to wage a legal battle seeking to throw out her loss to Katie Hobbs.

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