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Tucson public housing & Section 8 waitlists close Monday tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The city of Tucson will close the pre-application period for public housing and Section 8 voucher waitlists Monday night, giving people a final weekend to submit applications.

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PACC extends shutdown through Monday to limit disease spread in animal shelter tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima Animal Care Center will stay closed to the public through Monday as officials work to stem the contagious respiratory disease strep zoo. Two dogs were euthanized because of the infection, and several more have contracted it.

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Photos: Hundreds of campers stranded in Catalina State Park by high water tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Around 300 people were stuck inside Catalina State Park north of Tucson after flooding blocked access to the single entrance road. State officials had to wait until the water receded before they began clearing debris with a front-loader this week.

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Websites selling abortion pills are sharing sensitive data with Google tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Some sites selling abortion pills use technology that shares information with third parties like Google - and law enforcement can potentially use this data to prosecute people who end their pregnancies with medication.

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Education cmte OKs Arizona Senate bill banning unapproved use of pronouns in classrooms tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An Arizona Senate bill would prohibit school employees and contractors from referring to students younger than 18 by pronouns not aligned with their biological sex and calling students names that aren’t their given name or a derivative nickname without permission from parents.

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FactCheck: What to know about the special counsels investigating Trump & Biden tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Special counsels have been appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland for investigations into how classified documents ended up in the homes of President Joe Biden and former President Trump - but who are the counsels and what can they actually do?

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Jury could get case of Arizona Oath Keeper charged in Jan. 6 insurrection tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A second group of Oath Keepers - including Arizonan Edward Vallejo - to be tried for seditious conspiracy and other charges for actions during the Jan. 6 insurrection could soon see their case handed over to a jury.

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Pair of proposed bills would criminalize homelessness in Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A pair of bills proposed by Fountain Hills Republican John Kavanagh that would criminalize common activities for people experiencing homelessness had their first hearings in the Arizona Senate Wednesday, although their path to becoming law remains unclear.

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Kavanagh wants Arizona AG to defend all state laws, after Brnovich wouldn’t defend his tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
After the Arizona attorney general last year refused to defend a new law making it a crime to take video of police officers in some situations, the law’s author is back with a proposal that would require the state’s top attorney to defend every law.

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Dreamer scholarship would benefit thousands of Arizona's undocumented students tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
More than 3,000 undocumented Arizona students could see their dreams of a college degree come true under a new $40 million dollar investment proposed by Gov. Katie Hobbs, aimed at supporting Dreamers who’ve attended a high school in the state for at least two years.

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Allegations that the charity George Santos claims to have run was fake highlight how scams divert money from worthy causes tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
As reports of Rep. George Santos extensive lies grow amidst reports he claimed to have founded and run a fake nonprofit animal rescue group, they highlight the serious problem of fake charities - scams that divert donations that would otherwise support legitimate causes.

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Az Republicans are already talking about a state gov't shutdown in July tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Legislature has been in session for barely a week, and already Republican lawmakers are saying bipartisanship appears firmly out of reach and the state is headed for a government shutdown this summer.

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U.S. urges Mexico to open up lithium production to private sector tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. is urging Mexico to open up lithium exploitation to the private sector in order to make the critical mineral cheaper - though lithium rights are nationalized in Mexico and the technology to extract lithium from the Sonoran Desert does not yet exist commercially.

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Az Democrats propose rent control bills amid ongoing housing crisis tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Democratic lawmakers in the Arizona House of Representatives are looking to pass a suite of housing bills that aim to help renters weather the ongoing housing crisis, but their proposals have detractors in the state’s powerful landlord lobby.

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Representation on police force builds trust with LGBTQ people tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Out to Protect works to support LGBTQ police officers and trains departments on better ways to treat people who are LGBTQ in an effort to reach communities that struggle with a relationship with law enforcement.

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PACC shut down through Friday to limit disease spread in animal shelter tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima Animal Care Center will be closed to the public through Friday as officials work to stem the contagious respiratory disease strep zoo. The shelter has experienced overcrowding nearly continuously for the past several years.

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U.S. House GOP would make it easier for feds to give public lands away to states tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. House Republicans included in the new rules for the chamber they passed this month a provision meant to make it easier for Congress to give away public lands - but advocates and critics disagree about the wisdom of such giveaways.

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Lawmakers grill heads of Az state boards after audits find investigations move too slowly tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona state legislators last week grilled the heads of the state boards tasked with overseeing complaints from citizens after reports by the state auditor general revealed some major deficiencies.

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Child vaccination rates, already down because of COVID, fall again tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The percentage of U.S. children entering kindergarten with their required immunizations fell to 93% in the 2021-22 school year, 2 percentage points below recommended herd immunity levels of 95% and lower than vaccination rates in 2020-21.

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Water managers across drought-stricken West agree on one thing: ‘This is going to be painful’ tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Water authorities in the Western U.S. don’t have a crystal ball, but two decades of drought and poor planning have caused the river’s biggest reservoirs to drop to their lowest collective volume since they were filled and give a clear view of the hard choices ahead.

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