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U.S. senators introduce bill to end a state’s Medicaid funding if it blocks IVF tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Two Republican U.S. senators have teamed up to try to prevent states from banning in vitro fertilization, months after the Alabama state Supreme Court upended access to the procedure by ruling fertilized embryos were children under state law.

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Hobbs issues executive order expanding access to birth control for state gov't workers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs issued an executive order expanding access to birth control for Arizonans who work for the state, a move that comes shortly after the state legislature moved to repeal an 1864 near-total ban on abortion.

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Dem files ethics complaint against 2 GOP senators indicted as fake electors for Trump tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican Sens. Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern, who were indicted last month for being fake electors who tried to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 election in Arizona, are now facing an ethics complaint in the state Senate.

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Experts, Arizona beekeepers weigh in on local honey for seasonal allergies tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Though the jury is still out as to whether consuming local honey to alleviate allergy symptoms is a good strategy, Arizona beekeepers and experts agree that local honey is both tastier and healthier than honey at the supermarket.

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Red light, green light: City Council must decide if Tucson is on board RTA tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
RTA compromise up for Tucson City Council consideration, a bond election may be on the horizon for South Tucson, spending (and speeding) limits to be set and more from government meetings this week.

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Chacon & Martin provide clutch hits, Waddell goes distance as Pima softball wins opener at NJCAA World Series tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College softball team (43-12) opened play at the NJCAA Division I World Series on Monday in Oxford, Ala., defeating Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, 7-5.

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Az House Ethics Cmte drops complaint vs. GOP Rep accused of signature fraud tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An ethics complaint filed against Republican state Rep. Austin Smith, after he was accused of petition signature fraud, was dropped by the Arizona House Ethics Committee Friday, after the committee chair said he does not see the accusations as a violation of the House rules.

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CBP faces lawsuit from family of man killed in June 2023 shooting tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A year after a Tohono O'odham man was shot and killed by U.S. Border Patrol agents near his home, his family filed a federal lawsuit Thursday accusing the agency of excessive force and demanded the names of the agents who killed him.

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From niche to norm: Sports betting’s relentless expansion grips Az & the nation tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
As Tuesday marked the sixth anniversary of sports betting legalization in America due to the landmark 2018 Supreme Court decision that paved the way for states to legalize sports betting, the industry has become an unmissable part of mainstream sports.

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Az ties to a secretive far-right Christian policy group trying to reshape America tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Council for National Policy, a secretive Christian policy group that has been pushing Christian nationalism and fringe-right ideology into mainstream politics, includes some notable Arizona members who share certain conservative beliefs and connections to the fake elector scheme.

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New data shows high totals of suspensions for missing class tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Educators regularly turn to suspension as a response to attendance problems, though many experts criticize these punishments as an ineffective way to solve the problem, and punishing students by forcing them to miss class can harm their chances of getting a diploma on time.

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Taking back Native voting rights tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In rural parts of Arizona and Montana, voter education groups are leading initiatives to spread the word about why every vote counts, especially during a presidential election year.

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Az, tribes receive historic preservation funding to protect natural resources, culture, traditions tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As part of the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Fund, more than $2.5 million in funding is coming to 10 Arizona tribal nations to support various programs and projects to preserve cultural resources and history.

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Medicaid unwinding deals blow to tenuous system of care for Native Americans tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
About a year into the process of redetermining Medicaid eligibility, more than 20 million people have been kicked off the program for low-income families - but Native Americans are proving particularly vulnerable to losing coverage and face greater obstacles in finding other coverage.

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Az House Ethics Committee drops complaint against GOP Rep accused of signature fraud tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An ethics complaint filed against Republican state Rep. Austin Smith, after he was accused of petition signature fraud, was dropped by the Arizona House Ethics Committee Friday, after the committee chair said he does not see the accusations as a violation of the House rules.

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Democratic women governors forge friendships in group chat tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Democratic women governors brag on their states — and one another. They talk to The 19th about learning from one another about policy, what it takes to lead and what they see as “women’s issues.”

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Housing boom in most of U.S. could ease shortage, but cost is still a problem tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The United States has added almost 5 million housing units since 2020, most heavily in the South and most of them single-family homes, making a housing shortage look conquerable in much of the nation - but continuing high interest rates are hurting potential homebuyers.

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Grant Road makeover set to continue in Midtown Tucson tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
After decades of planning, the Tucson Transportation Department is ready to begin widening Grant Road between Swan Road and Sparkman Boulevard, just west of Dodge Boulevard.

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Tucson voters won't be asked to hike sales tax this summer tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Despite requesting a legal opinion from the Arizona Attorney General’s Office regarding whether it was legal to put a sales-tax proposal on the July primary ballot, the Tucson City Council will not be asking voters to approve a tax hike this summer.

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Longtime Tucson political operator Byron Howard dead at 77 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Byron Howard, a longtime political player who worked for both Pima County and the city of Tucson, died April 29. He was 77.

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