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GOP’s 1,000-voter precinct plan would cost Arizona counties $53 million tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Counties in Arizona would need 4,000 new voting locations and 17,000 more poll workers under a proposal from state Republicans, including Tucson's Rachel Keshel.

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Deported migrants struggle to build lives on the edge in Nogales, Mexico tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A vacant basketball court in Nogales, Sonora, has transformed into an unwilling refuge where deported migrants and displaced families from the United States are now forced to call home.

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Across U.S., Latinas hold more state legislative seats than ever before tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In 2025, women's representation in state government increased overall, except for white women, according to the Center for American Women and Politics.

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Shaw plans launch party for Tucson Council campaign tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A roundup of upcoming Tucson-area political events: Sadie Shaw plans launch party in Ward 3 Council race; Sentinel team on the airwaves

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New law increases oversight of Arizona sober living homes tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed legislation increasing oversight of sober living homes, two years after state officials announced that a Medicaid fraud scheme had targeted Native Americans seeking drug and alcohol treatment.

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States push Medicaid work rules, but few programs help enrollees find jobs tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Republicans in Congress and several states are pushing to implement work requirements for nondisabled adults, but Medicaid typically does not help people find employment, and when states do try to help, such efforts are limited.

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Firings at federal health agencies decimate offices that process public records tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Public access to government records that document the handling of illnesses, faulty products, and safety lapses at health facilities will slow after mass firings at the federal Department of Health and Human Services swept out staff members responsible for releasing records.

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AI isn’t what we should be worried about – it’s the humans controlling it tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
With rapid advances toward artificial general intelligence over the past few years, industry leaders and scientists have expressed misgivings about safety, but the real issue may be whether humanity has the wherewithal to channel this technology to build a fairer, more prosperous world.

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As Trump claims to militarize the border, quiet on Arizona's frontier tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Except for a half-dozen Border Patrol agents, a section of Arizona's border wall remains strikingly quiet — a counterpoint to the Trump administration's declarations of a "national emergency" requiring an expanded role for the military and the turnover of thousands of acres of public land.

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Romero rants not: Tucson mayor's RTA frustrations should be heeded, not ignored tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Tell me I'm wrong and the Regional Transportation Authority Board did not just treat Tucson Mayor Regina Romero like a hysterical woman ranting and raving as she accused the RTA's chief of "hatred" for the city. They're too smart for that, right? Except, I think they did.

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Ansari says Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation case is ‘about more than one man’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Democratic U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari returned Tuesday from traveling to an El Salvador megaprison in an attempt to visit a Maryland father who the Trump administration has said was wrongfully deported, but who they haven't done a thing to help return to America.

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Richards & MacDonald help lead offense as Pima baseball earns run-rule win at Glendale tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College baseball team (43-11, 27-11 in ACCAC) rallied from an early deficit and took control on Tuesday in their ACCAC conference game at Glendale Community College (19-33, 9-27).

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Pima softball outscores Chandler-Gilbert 23-0 in ACCAC conference road sweep tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College softball team (47-5, 35-5 in ACCAC) earned two shutout victories on Tuesday at Chandler-Gilbert Community College (11-31, 10-26).

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Democrat Elsner faces legal challenge to Tucson City Council candidacy tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Chris Elsner, a Democrat who is making his first run for public office, is facing a lawsuit over the validity of his nominating petitions in Ward 5

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DC Circuit grills both sides on Trump’s transgender troop ban as Supreme Court battle looms tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday grilled the Trump administration and the attorney for transgender service members who won a lower court order reversing President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender troops.

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Governor rejects fast-track for small nuclear reactors at Arizona data centers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A measure that would have waived certain state regulations to allow data centers and other large industrial energy users to build small nuclear reactors in rural Arizona was vetoed last week by Gov. Katie Hobbs.

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GOP threatens 2026 ballot measure after Hobbs vetoes Arizona ICE Act tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican lawmakers in Arizona want to force law enforcement agencies, city officials and even school leaders to make it easier for ICE to deport people — and they’re threatening to go to the ballot to do it.

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Az’s Apache Generating Station one of 66 coal plants to get EPA exemption from air pollution caps tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Apache Generating Station is among 66 power plants nationwide granted exemptions by the Trump administration from updated standards on mercury, arsenic, lead and other toxic pollutants.

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Navajo advocates say prez’s approval of uranium transport, Trump coal order feels like a betrayal tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Advocates from across the Navajo Nation gathered Monday hoping to tell Navajo President Buu Nygren how frustrated and disappointed they are by his abrupt endorsement of Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to reinvigorate the nation’s coal industry.

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Trump endorses both Biggs & Robson in unusual Arizona governor’s race move tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Karrin Taylor Robson entered the 2026 governor’s race with the endorsement of President Donald Trump. But on April 21, 2025, Trump also endorsed U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, her chief rival for the GOP nomination.

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