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Pima volleyball rally cut short against North Idaho to open Aztec Classic tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College volleyball team (0-5) played their first match of the season at the West Campus Aztec Gymnasium on Thursday, falling in four sets to North Idaho College.

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City weighs how to increase housing density in central Tucson tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Central Tucson residents could see new duplexes, triplexes and quadplexes in their neighborhoods starting next year, as city officials work out how to implement a new state requirement to loosen building restrictions.

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Venezuelans with Temporary Protected Status win removal reprieve from 9th Circuit tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A Ninth Circuit panel blocked the Trump administration from stripping protections from nearly 350,000 Venezuelans living in the United States, finding Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem lacked authority to end a Biden-era extension.

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The ICE Facility in Phoenix you probably didn’t know existed tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center is a 25,000-square-foot facility at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. While larger detention facilities in the state have gotten much more attention, AROCC has avoided the limelight.

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Immigration raid at Washington blaze stokes fear in wildfire crews nationwide tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Federal immigration officials in Washington state arrived on the scene of the largest wildfire in the state on Wednesday and arrested two firefighters who had been working to contain the blaze, an alarming development that could threaten the nation’s wildfire readiness.

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Inside the program cuts, workforce purges, and secretive reorganization of the USDA tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
As the Trump administration shrinks the Department of Agriculture, rural farming communities in Arizona and around the country are left to pay the price.

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Intel faces unusual challenge of trying to influence one of its owners – the federal government tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
As the U.S. government obtains a 10 percent stake in Intel, the American computer chip manufacturer finds itself in the awkward position of attempting to influence Trump administration officials who now hold some sway over the company through its stock holdings.

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No change in total: Dahl wins recount of Tucson Council race by 19 votes tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson City Councilman Kevin Dahl has won his primary race following a state-mandated recount, which found no change in the results. Dahl had 19 more votes than challenger Sadie Shaw, and now heads on to the November general election.

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Judge blocks Kari Lake from firing Voice of America head tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge ruled that Kari Lake, the head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, cannot fire the Voice of America director as part of the administration’s wider effort to shut down the independent media outlet.

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Fired workers seek corrected employment records from feds tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A coalition of plaintiffs suing the federal government over the mass firing of thousands of probationary federal workers argued that a federal judge should grant them summary judgment and order “corrective actions” to remedy the effects of the terminations.

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CDC vaccine officials resign while childhood vaccination rates decline tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Medical experts say vaccine hesitancy is likely to increase further as a result of misinformation pouring from the Trump administration — and turmoil at the federal agency largely responsible for setting vaccine policy.

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Tucson to pilot STAR Village sanctioned camp for homeless tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An outdoor homeless encampment sanctioned by the city of Tucson is set to serve as a temporary place to live for 25 people, starting this fall.

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What's open, what's closed around Tucson for Labor Day 2025 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Federal, Arizona state, Pima County, city of Tucson government and municipal offices in towns in Southern Arizona will be closed for Labor Day on Monday. The Pima Area Labor Federation will hold their annual holiday picnic at Reid Park.

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Pima County Recorder Cázares-Kelly joins Fontes to defend mail-in voting tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County Recorder Gabriella Cázares-Kelly defended mail-in voting last week, rejecting claims from President Donald Trump the practice is inaccurate and leads to voter fraud.

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CDC chaos prompts Senate calls for investigation into Trump health agency purge tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Bipartisan leaders of a U.S. Senate committee dealing with health policy expressed alarm with the direction of the country’s top public health agencies after President Trump fired the director of the CDC, and other high-level officials resigned.

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Fed Governor Lisa Cook sues Trump over attempted firing tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors member who President Donald Trump moved to fire on Monday, challenged her removal in a lawsuit as an “unprecedented and illegal” attack on the central bank’s independence.

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FDA approves COVID-19 vaccines with new restrictions, potentially limiting access for healthy children tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Guidance around COVID-19 vaccines has once again shifted after the Food and Drug Administration on Aug. 27, 2025, approved updated shots for the fall season, but changes raise new questions about eligibility and availability of COVID-19 vaccines for children.

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Arizona targets Hefty trash bags over 'greenwashing' recyclability tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sued Reynolds Consumer Products, accusing the parent company behind the Hefty brand of violating consumer protections by advertising nonrecyclable garbage bags as “recyclable” and “sustainable.”

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2 Colorado residents plead guilty to $110K in Arizona school voucher fraud tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Two Coloradans who forged documents to fraudulently enroll more than 40 real and fictitious children in Arizona’s school voucher program have both pleaded guilty to felony charges.

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Teachers are spending more & more on school supplies. Here’s why. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
While covering the cost of classroom supplies is a challenge educators face annually, the burden on them has grown as the price of many learning materials has jumped by 20 percent in roughly five years.

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