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Arizona is launching PFAS mitigation efforts ahead of the EPA deadline. But critics say it isn’t enough tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is in the process of testing public water systems for 29 different PFAS in hopes of fulfilling the 2027 EPA deadline, but despite the efforts that have been made to address contamination, the EPA has received criticism.

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Arizona, Colorado put future NFL draft picks to the test with swarm of scouts in attendance tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Arizona Wildcats’ showdown against the Colorado Buffaloes and Deion Sanders quickly turned into a lopsided dud last Saturday, but for NFL fans watching, the game featured a surplus of names expected to be called at the 2025 draft.

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‘Metering’ of asylum-seekers at border ruled illegal by 9th Circuit tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the since-rescinded "metering" policy, under which asylum-seekers were turned away at the U.S.-Mexico border if Custom and Border Protection officials deemed a crossing to be at capacity, is unlawful.

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Conservationists demand ban on ‘cyanide bombs’ in national forests tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A environmental coalition urged the U.S. Forest Service to ban the use of so-called cyanide bombs in national forests, arguing that the traps continue to inhumanely kill endangered animals and humans.

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IRS says Arizona can’t challenge federal tax on family rebate tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Internal Revenue Service defended its decision to tax Arizona’s 2023 Family Tax Rebate, moving to dismiss a lawsuit from the state claiming violations of federal law and state sovereignty.

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Doctors call on Arizonans to vote yes on Prop. 139 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
With less than two weeks left before Arizonans decide the fate of a ballot measure that seeks to establish abortion access as a fundamental right, health providers urged voters to support it.

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City of Tucson proposes making you pay for parking on Saturdays too tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The city of Tucson is seeking input on extending the enforcement period for parking meters starting in early 2025.

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Pima County candidates split on water stations in desert tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Candidates running for the Pima County Board of Supervisors disagree on whether the county should support efforts to maintain water barrels in the deadly Sonoran Desert.

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Democrat Volk hopes to flip a GOP statehouse seat in Southern Az tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Democrat Kevin Volk, a former teacher who now works for his family’s real-estate brokerage, is hoping to unseat one of the two Republican incumbents, Reps. Cory McGarr and Rachel Jones, who were both first elected in 2022.

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How recent arrivals at the border have changed the country & its attitudes tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. politicians blame immigrants for all manner of woes, particularly taking American jobs - but there is a dire shortage of blue-collar workers in the U.S.

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In vino veritas: 9th Circuit tests limits of Arizona’s wine regulations for out-of-staters tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Two Arizona residents and wine enthusiasts argued before the Ninth Circuit that Arizona’s complicated wine distribution system discriminates against out-of-state retailers and violates the U.S. Constitution.

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One issue will decide Arizona’s future. Nobody’s campaigning on it. tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Over the past four years, Arizona has become a poster child for water scarcity in the United States, and while voters know they’re deciding the country’s future, it’s unclear if they know that they’re voting on an existential threat in their own backyards.

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Reforms at the U.S. Supreme Court: Where do Harris & Trump stand? tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The 2024 presidential election reflects a clear party divide over how Supreme Court justices should behave and whether they should remain on the bench for life.

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Arizona companies building tech to reduce carbon emissions tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As climate change continues to wreak havoc, companies in Arizona are developing technologies intended to pull greenhouse gas from the air.

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In Arizona, GOP candidates for county recorder campaign on distrust of elections tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s election system has been thrown into turmoil over the past four years by false claims of fraud - and some real instances of mistakes - in running elections. Now, Republican candidates for county recorder are playing up those false claims and errors as they try to get elected.

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JD Vance: 'Joy is gone' from Harris campaign, says Trump will 'kick cartels' asses' in Tucson stump stop tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
“In just two weeks, Arizona is going to send Kamala Harris a message: go back to San Francisco where you belong,” Vance told a crowd of around 400 at the Pima County Fairgrounds, flanked onstage by members of the National Border Patrol Council.

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Ortega's tenure stabilized the city, moved Tucson past futility tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Recently retired City Manager Mike Ortega proved the trick isn't to shatter the deep state of bureaucrats, it's to lead a staff full of professional civil servants. Show futility no quarter — through leadership and not micromanagement.

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Pima Medical Examiner opens new $45 million facility tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Over the next few weeks, Pima County's Medical Examiner will move from a cramped, decades-old building into a new $45 million facility.

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Border911: The misinformation network profiting off the false invasion narrative tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Tom Homan, the architect of Donald Trump’s family separation initiative and head of the nonprofit Border911 Foundation, Inc., and his group’s members have largely flown under the radar, but if Trump wins this November, Homan and his allies could receive prominent posts.

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Arizona Wildcats hope to regroup amid 3-game skid, injury setbacks tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The University of Arizona was eyeing a chance to take down Shedeur Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes during a sold-out homecoming weekend in Tucson - but instead, the Wildcats might be watching their season slip away.

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