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With abortion challenges heating up, Arizona advocates turn their focus to 2024 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As Arizona teeters between abortion access and increased restrictions, reproductive rights advocates are hoping voters in 2024 will guarantee the right to abortion in the Grand Canyon State.

Documentary film works to preserve the legacy of Arizonan Stewart Udall tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
A new documentary - “Stewart Udall and the Politics of Beauty” - paints the former Interior secretary, who died in 2010, as a uniting force revered for pushing forward the environmentalist movement in addition to promoting desegregation and tribal sovereignty.

Conservation groups, highway advocates square off on proposed Interstate 11 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A plan to extend Interstate 11 has been in the works for the past decade - but while some see economic benefits to expanding the north-south highway, the proposed corridor has drawn the attention of conservation groups and the Tohono O’odham community.

Brian Peabody earns 200th career win at Pima as men's basketball dominates Chandler-Gilbert tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s basketball team (22-6, 14-6 in ACCAC) took control in the second half on Wednesday against Chandler-Gilbert Community College (20-8, 12-8) in a crucial ACCAC conference match-up.

Feds push local election officials to boost security ahead of 2024 tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Some of the nation’s top cybersecurity leaders are warning state and local election officials of ongoing foreign and domestic national security threats to election systems, urging them to upgrade their defenses ahead of next year’s presidential election.

Acosta nets 18 points off the bench as Pima women trounce Chandler-Gilbert tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s basketball team (22-6, 15-5 in ACCAC) led from the get-go on Wednesday against Chandler-Gilbert Community College (10-17, 6-14) at the West Campus Aztec Gym.

Arizona Senate passes ‘born alive’ abortion bill tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republicans want health care workers to provide life-saving care for all babies born alive, taking aim at abortion, but critics say a bill passed by the Arizona Senate could mandate the torture of premature babies who have no chance of survival.

For some, gambling's extreme growth in Arizona leads to addiction and worse tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A myriad of sports bettors converged in Arizona in February, and with significant sportsbook traffic came aggressive marketing campaigns and a multitude of “free play” promotions - but the promotions tend to be difficult for bettors who are trying to curtail their gambling addiction.

This 'climate-friendly' fuel comes with an astronomical cancer risk tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment.

Hobbs vetoes Arizona GOP-backed rental tax cut tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a GOP-backed bill that sought to eliminate the rental tax in what Republican lawmakers called an attempt to mitigate rising inflation and housing costs, yet likely would not have benefited renters and was potentially catastrophic for municipalities.

Az lawmakers seek to resolve teacher shortage via raises & insurance benefits tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Lawmakers are hoping to convince teachers to stay in Arizona with a $10,000 pay raise, but the proposal comes with caveats that opponents say renders it purely performative and the total funding allocation is likely to repeatedly push schools over the constitutional spending cap.

Recreational sales drive Arizona marijuana spending to more than $1.4 billion in 2022 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Total Arizona marijuana sales in 2022 mirrored the total from 2021, the first year of the legal adult use market, but the paths that each year reached $1.4 billion in sales were strikingly different.

Supreme Court eviscerates Arizona on death penalty scheme tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Supreme Court awarded postconviction relief to a man on death row for killing a police officer after Arizona courts kept jurors in the dark about its policy of denying parole to anyone sentenced to life in prison - despite the fact the court called the policy unconstitutional in 2016.

Arizona AG’s office debunked election fraud claims. Brnovich kept those conclusions secret. tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
While conspiracy theories continued to spread online about alleged voter fraud, former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s Office had already concluded that those allegations were factually inaccurate — but he kept those conclusions hidden from the public.

EPA plan would stop SRP from dumping coal ash into Coronado Generating Station evaporation ponds tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Environmental Protection Agency has notified Salt River Project that it plans to deny the utility’s request to continue dumping coal ash into an unlined pond at its Coronado Generating Station coal-fired plant in eastern Arizona.

Workers' market gives employees opportunities, help against inflation headwinds tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
For Arizona residents, the job market has tilted in favor of job seekers in a way rarely seen - but there are reasons for workers to be concerned that wages are not keeping up with costs.

Federal grant could extend broadband to 127,000 Arizona homes & businesses tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Treasury released $99.4 million in broadband funding to Arizona, money that officials said could bring broadband internet service to an estimated 127,807 households and businesses around the state.

Election Integrity Unit’s latest pivot has both sides in Arizona questioning whether it should exist at all tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Former AG Brnovich hid findings from the election fraud unit that debunked claims of widespread fraud in Arizona’s 2020 election, and Kris Mayes announced she will use the unit to combat voter suppression - leading to questions about whether the unit should exist at all.

'I will never stop': Arizona legislative fight against fentanyl continues as drug seizures rise tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An Arizona bill that would establish a level 1 felony punishment for selling a narcotic drug that results in the death of the user aims to help stem the fentanyl epidemic, the third wave of the opioid epidemic that has gripped the country since the 1990s.

Biden administration proposes new rules to curb asylum access tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Biden administration announced a proposal that would bar foreigners who attempt to illegally cross into the country along the U.S.-Mexico border from later seeking asylum - a proposal decried by immigrant rights groups as "Trump's asylum ban under a different name."

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