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How climate change is heating up weather around the world tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Less than a month into summer 2024, the vast majority of the U.S. population has already experienced an extreme heat wave, and the early season heat, part of a warming trend fueled by humans, is putting lives at risk around the world.

FC Tucson clinches playoff spot, but... tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
FC Tucson played their final match of the season on Sunday night at Kino North Stadium, one that was delayed by both weather and a lost team bus. The match ended in a dreary draw with Coachella FC, 1 - 1.

Tucson KIDCO after-school registration for upcoming school year begins Monday tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson's KIDCO after-school program will be open for registration on Monday, July 15, at 8 a.m.

Arizona farmers turn to solar panels to shade crops, save water & generate power tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The University of Arizona, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has created an agrivoltaics research site in Phoenix to study ways that solar farming could benefit Arizona.

Pima County supervisors discuss plans to beat the heat tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The Pima County Board of supervisors is to discuss heat precautions undertaken and in the works, as Supervisor Steve Christy wants answers about migrant service problems, and more from government meetings around Tucson.

If you’re in the military, voting this year could be tricky tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
With federal protections and programs in place, the number of military voters who report not receiving a ballot in time — or at all — has steadily decreased each year, but there are still more challenges that military voters typically have to face when trying to participate in elections.

Az GOP ‘secure border’ ballot measure cleared for voters after judge rejects constitutional challenge tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A judge rejected a lawsuit against a GOP ballot referral that would make it a state crime for migrants to cross the southern border and empower local police officers to arrest them, clearing the past for it to go before voters in November.

Calls to 988 suicide hotline may soon be routed to closest counselor, instead of crisis center in area code tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Calls to the 988 crisis hotline are connected to a center in the caller’s area code, but with 80% of calls coming from cell phones, people in crisis often end up speaking with a counselor thousands of miles away who has no way to send help - but regulators are working on a fix.

In the closing weeks of her U.S. Senate primary, Kari Lake is still trying to become Az governor tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Less than three weeks before she hopes Republican voters make her the party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate, Kari Lake is yet again asking the Arizona Supreme Court to declare her governor and overturn the results of her 2022 failed bid to become the state’s chief executive.

Federal judge dismisses classified documents case vs. Donald Trump tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, ruling that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed to his post at the Justice Department.

3 Pima Community College boards seats up for grabs in November tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Two incumbents are facing challengers are facing challenges as they seek reelection to the Pima Community College Governing Board.

As Watch fire grows, San Carlos Apache tribe declares emergency tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The San Carlos Apache Tribe declared an emergency Friday, and asked for help from Arizona state and federal officials after the Watch Fire quickly consumed 1,115 acres on Thursday, destroying at least 13 homes and forced the evacuations of more than 400 people.

Wade McLean: 'Edgar Soto cares and is a winner' tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
'There’s no doubt that he would bring this optimistic, caring and committed attitude with him to make the Pima County Board of Supervisors more successful.' — Wade McLean

Biden asks the nation for unity, promises security review after Trump shooting tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Joe Biden Sunday called for unity and pledged an independent review following the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday where former President Donald J. Trump was shot and injured.

Victims & shooter identified in assassination attempt on Trump tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The FBI said early Sunday it had identified the man who shot former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pa. Crooks was killed at the scene.

FC Tucson's Liz Duarte says 'fin' to soccer career tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
Luz Duarte retires; Cats announce nonconference matches; Playoffs online for FC Tucson men

Women who have been targets of political violence condemn shooting at Trump rally tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
After former President Donald Trump was injured in a shooting at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening, prominent women who have been the targets of political violence swiftly condemned the attack.

Fire at Pima County jail forces evacuation of 380 inmates tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Nearly 400 inmates were evacuated from the Pima County jail Friday night after a fire broke out in the facility's annex, officials said.

Forest Service will burn tree piles on Mt. Lemmon as part of forest-clearing efforts tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As early as Friday, staff with the Coronado National Forest will burn piles of trees on Mt. Lemmon, part of a years-long effort to clear the forest.

Conservationists: Cattle grazing damages Arizona’s riverbank habitats tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Service, more than six months after it first notified the government of lasting environmental damage along western Arizona’s Big Sandy River due to excess cattle grazing.

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