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Gov. Katie Hobbs signs law aimed at accountability for Arizona long-term care facilities tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The multiyear journey to get health care reform for long-term assisted living facilities signed into law finally came to fruition Monday when Gov. Katie Hobbs signed HB 2764, requiring the Arizona Department of Health Services to implement stricter standards and oversight.

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For second time in a month, feds shower billions on Arizona microchip makers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Biden administration announced that it will award $6.6 billion in grants and another $5 billion in loans to enhance and expand semiconductor production, the second time in three weeks that the White House has delivered CHIPS and Science Act funds to an Arizona chipmaker.

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Arizona Supreme Court upholds 1864 ban on nearly all abortions tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Abortion clinics in Arizona may be forced to close after the state Supreme Court upheld a near-total ban on the medical procedure Tuesday, saying an 1864 law should be enforced. That territorial-era statute bars abortions except to save the life of the mother.

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Az bill to ban reunification treatment heads to Hobbs, despite lack of Democratic support tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As a measure to ban reunification treatment in Arizona - used within the family court system to try and force a relationship between children and their estranged parents - heads to the governor, advocates and survivors are puzzled by Democratic opposition to the bill.

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Think tank estimates Arizona spends $1.1 billion annually for homelessness solutions tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A research study claims Arizona spends as much as $1.1 billion a year on homelessness-solution services, and in 2023, approximately 14,200 people were unhoused and the number of unhoused individuals has increased by 30% since 2020.

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Az bill making it easier to shoot & kill migrants vetoed for encouraging ‘armed vigilantism’ tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Gov. Katie Hobbs on Monday vetoed a GOP bill to expand when Arizona ranchers could legally kill migrants crossing their land.

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Az bill to ban family reunification heads to Hobbs, despite lack of Democratic support tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As a measure to ban reunification treatment in Arizona - used within the family court system to try and force a relationship between children and their estranged parents - heads to the governor, advocates and survivors are puzzled by Democratic opposition to the bill.

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Tucson's RTA revenue hopes dashed, Council must consider Plan B tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Tucson city leaders hoped revised RTA projections would provide them with revenue wiggle room. It didn't work out. Meanwhile, world leaders await the City Council's vote on Gaza, Sahuarita to get trout and more from area local government meetings.

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Arizona House votes down Horne school discipline bill tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona House of Representatives rejected Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne’s plan to tie student discipline to school letter grades, with two Republican legislators siding with Democrats.

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'Infrastructures of Control': Focus on border surveillance at UA photography show tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Dave Maass of the Electronic Freedom Foundation will be in Tucson this week for the opening reception for “Infrastructures of Control,” a UA exhibit featuring large-scale photographs of surveillance towers in Southern Arizona.

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9th Circuit stays out of Louis Taylor's move to expunge Pioneer Hotel fire conviction, for now tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The 9th Circuit declined Monday to interfere in a decade-old wrongful arrest and racial discrimination case seeking to expunge the record of Louis Taylor, who was convicted of starting the 1970 Pioneer Hotel Fire in Tucson that killed 29 people over 50 years ago.

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7 apply for vacant Tucson City Council seat tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: More than a half-dozen Ward 6 residents have applied to finish the term of Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik, who stepped down from job on March 31. The deadline to indicate interest in the appointment is April 15.

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Curtiss moves to 2nd in Pima school history in high jump; Madrigal-Diaz & Crane earn nat'l qualifiers at Triton Invitational tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The No. 3-ranked Pima Community College men’s and women’s track & field teams competed at the Triton Invitational on Friday and Saturday at the University of California San Diego in La Jolla, Calif.

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States want to make it harder for health insurers to deny care, but firms might evade enforcement tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In recent years, insurers have ratcheted up their use of prior authorization, causing delays and denials of care that are harming or even killing people, and mmore than two dozen states - including Arizona - have considered legislation designed to minimize delays and denials.

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Backed by Mike Lindell & mysterious benefactors, push to hand-count ballots picks up speed tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Disciples of Mike Lindell and other big-name election influencers have been spreading the hand-count gospel around the country since 2020, and the push to hand-count ballots is ramping up, albeit with spotty success, as the 2024 election nears.

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The IRS is testing a free method to directly file taxes - but not everyone is thrilled tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Many U.S. taxpayers in a dozen states for the first time can electronically file their federal returns directly to the Internal Revenue Service for free — but critics insist the new federal benefit is not needed and will even harm both users and states.

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Fontes seeks attorney fees in Hamadeh’s 2022 Az election challenge tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is seeking $36,820 in attorney fees from Abraham Hamadeh, after the Republican’s latest attempt to take the office he lost two years ago was thrown out of court.

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Water & power collide in proposed $100 million Colorado River deal tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A taxpayer-funded agency has agreed to pay $98.5 million on rights to the water that flows through Colorado's Shoshone facility, a culmination of a decades-long effort to keep Shoshone’s water on the west side of Colorado’s mountains.

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Low-income hearing health care expanded to all three Arizona universities tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A partnership among the Arizona Commission for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing and the state's three universities provides free hearing health care for low-income adults 21 or older with an income at or below 150% of the poverty level.

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Zylinski-Wrobel has 6 RBIs as Pima softball rallies and run-rules Az Western for 20th straight win tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College softball team (29-8, 16-2 in ACCAC) has produced the longest Aztec winning streak of the last 20 years as they picked up a big sweep over Arizona Western College (23-13, 15-5) in a doubleheader between two ACCAC Division I programs.

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