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Another cold night for Tucson: Freeze warning continues Monday night tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: Temperatures will remain near freezing across much of Southern Arizona overnight on Monday, National Weather Service forecasters said. A freeze warning will be in effect until Tuesday morning.

9th Circuit denies endangered species protections to Az snake tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel sided with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to deny Endangered Species Act protections to the Tucson shovel-nosed snake, ruling that the snake wasn't distinct enough from the western shovel-nosed snake.

TikTok ban looms large after critical Supreme Court reception tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
TikTok inched closer to a ban Friday as the Supreme Court justices pinned looming nationwide restrictions on the refusal of the app’s foreign-based owner to divest from the popular social platform.

All eyes are on 2026 as Arizona lawmakers return to Capitol tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Lawmakers return to the Capitol today with fresh and familiar faces after a tense election cycle, and for Republicans, the laser focus is on the 2026 elections as they seek to wrest control of the executive branch from Democrats.

Trump’s return puts Medicaid on chopping block tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Under President Joe Biden, enrollment in Medicaid hit a record high and the uninsured rate reached a record low, but Donald Trump’s return to the White House — along with a GOP-controlled Senate and House of Representatives — is expected to change that.

Minimum wages are increasing in nearly half the states this year tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The minimum wage will increase in nearly half the states this year as voters in several states, including deeply red ones, chose in November to significantly increase their minimum wages this year - while in other states, the minimum wage is automatically adjusted as inflation rises.

Az’s recreational marijuana sales hit yearly low in November, continuing market decline tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona's adult-use marijuana sales fell to $73.1 million in November, the lowest monthly total since September and a sign of continuing market contraction.

Downtown Starbucks brews controversy in Tucson tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Since 2021, Starbucks has opened 17 new brick-and-mortar coffee shops in Tucson, three of which were relocations. That means more than 47 percent of Tucson's operating Starbucks stores have opened in the last three years, and some residents are concerned by the noticeable growth of the coffee chain.

Costs double for new TUSD HQ; School districts picking new chairs for '25 tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
TUSD pegged the original cost of remodeling a new admin building at $3.3 million. Oops. In news that I'm sure will shock all readers because this never happens, revised estimates say the move will cost more like $6.9 million. Plus more in local government meetings.

In 2024, Trump won over more voters in Pima County compared to 2020 run tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As Republican Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House on Jan. 20, an analysis of election results in Pima County shows that his 2024 performance was an improvement over his 2020 showing.

Ball & Oldham dominate with double-doubles as men's basketball stays unbeaten tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The PCC men’s basketball team (18-0, 6-0 in ACCAC) had their 18th straight victory on Saturday against Scottsdale Community College (5-10, 3-3). The game gave head coach Brian Peabody his 250th Pima career win.

Another cold night for Tucson: Freeze warning continues into Monday tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: Temperatures will remain near freezing across much of Southern Arizona overnight on Sunday, National Weather Service forecasters said. A freeze warning will be remain in effect overnight until Monday morning.

Another cold night for Tucson: Freeze warning continues into Monday tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Temperatures will remain near freezing across much of Southern Arizona overnight on Sunday, National Weather Service forecasters said. A freeze warning will be remain in effect overnight until Monday morning.

Sours-Miller's double-double, Vital's 3-point shooting help Pima women fend off Scottsdale tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s basketball team (13-3, 5-1 in ACCAC) got back to ACCAC conference play on Saturday as they hosted Scottsdale Community College (8-6, 4-2).

Ball & Oldham dominate with double-doubles, Peabody earns 250th Pima career win as men's basketball stays unbeaten tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s basketball team (18-0, 6-0 in ACCAC) continued their record-setting start with an 18th straight victory on Saturday against Scottsdale Community College (5-10, 3-3).

The militia & the mole: Freelance vigilante penetrated top ranks of 2 prominent right-wing groups tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Posing as an ideological compatriot, a freelance vigilante penetrated the top ranks of two of the most prominent right-wing militias in the country.

Librarians gain protections in some states as book bans soar tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Amid a national rise in book bans in school libraries and new laws in some red states that threaten criminal penalties against librarians, a growing number of blue states are taking the opposite approach.

The ‘weather whiplash’ fueling the Los Angeles fires is becoming more common tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The kind of weather whiplash that fueled the Los Angeles County fires is only becoming more common, and rapid shifts between heavy rain and drought (and vice versa) are becoming more intense — and the trend is unfolding faster than climate models have projected.

Wildfire smoke is here to stay: How to clean the air inside your home tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Wildfires are a major health concern, because microscopic particles in wildfire smoke, carried by the wind, can penetrate deep into lungs and travel into the bloodstream - and people might want to consider investing in equipment to clean the air inside their home.

Why are there so many empty parking lots in Tucson? Outdated codes. tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson's mandatory parking requirements have led to huge swaths of wasted space in the form of empty parking lots, advocates say. The city agrees: parking requirements are set to be updated in favor of less car-centric urban design if approved by the City Council.

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