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Pick up a furry friend at the BLM's Burro Palooza in Marana & Willcox tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Interested parties can bring home their own wild burro, trained by an inmate from the Arizona Department of Corrections, in a Mad Libs-brought-to-life at the Bureau of Land Management’s Burro Palooza beginning March 1.

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Plasschaert's 4 RBIs & Valenzuela's 10 strikeouts spark Pima in sweep over Eastern Az tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College baseball team (6-0) hosted a non-conference doubleheader against Eastern Arizona College (3-2) on Tuesday at the West Campus Aztec Baseball Field.

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Native writer Kimberly Blaeser to give Thursday reading at UA Poetry Center tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Kimberly Blaeser, an Ojibwe writer and photographer, will give a poetry reading at the University of Arizona this week. The former Wisconsin poet laureate's latest book, "Ancient Light," was published by the UA Press.

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Most violent crime rates have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The number of homicides across the United States declined by 16% in 2024, continuing a recent downward trajectory, according to a nonpartisan think tank - but perceptions of crime are heavily influenced by political affiliation.

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TUSD will demand warrants, IDs from ICE officials attempting to remove students, but can't 'stand in the way' tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Despite the potential for "more aggressive immigration enforcement," the policies of Tucson's largest school district have not changed under the law, said Supt. Trujillo, and schools will require judicial warrants from federal law enforcement agents to come onto campus or demand student information.

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White House rescinds controversial federal aid freeze memo tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The White House Office of Management and Budget has rescinded a memo outlining President Donald Trump’s freeze on federal aid after the document caused widespread panic and confusion.

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Amid deportation arrests, Conover says Pima officials should request papers from feds seeking access tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As the Trump administration makes a show of force against migrants, Pima County officials should ask for a copy of any warrants and identification from federal agents seeking access to county facilities and employees, County Attorney Laura Conover advised this week.

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Amid deportation arrests, County Attorney says Pima officials should request papers from feds seeking access tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As the Trump administration makes a show of force against migrants, Pima County officials should ask for a copy of any warrants and identification from federal agents seeking access to county facilities and employees, County Attorney Laura Conover advised this week.

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Pima County residents have until end of January to weigh in on draft RTA Next plan tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County residents have until Jan. 31 to weigh in on the 20-year transportation plan that the Regional Transportation Authority hopes to ask voters to approve in November.

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Hobbs names Maria Elena Cruz, 1st Latina & Black justice, to Az Supreme Court tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Gov. Katie Hobbs named Judge Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona Supreme Court, making her the first Latina and first Black high court justice in state history.

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Hobbs names Maria Elena Cruz, 1st Latina justice, to Arizona Supreme Court tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Gov. Katie Hobbs named Judge Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona Supreme Court, making her the first Latina and first Black high court justice in state history.

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‘Shortchanging our community’: Navajo people are left in the dark about uranium transport tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Safety lessons about uranium taught to native youth feel a bit contradictory now, since uranium ore is being allowed to be transported through their community from Pinyon Plain Mine, even though it has been proven how harmful uranium has been to the Navajo people and their land.

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Az license plate bill—once noncontroversial—faces uphill battles tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Like beer? Rock ’n’ roll? Neutering your pet? There’s an Arizona license plate for that. But backing LGBTQ+ students with college scholarships? This seems to be a bridge too far for some Republicans to cross.

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Arizona House takes step to defend Colorado River water tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An Arizona House committee advanced a bill to allocate $1 million to defending the Grand Canyon State’s Colorado River water rights and approved allowing for the removal of an active groundwater management area.

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Clinics accuse Arizona of race discrimination in response to rehab center Medicaid scandal tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Two dozen behavioral health care facilities, providers and clinicians sued Arizona and the state’s Medicaid agency, claiming racial discrimination and negligence in the agency’s handling of the state’s sober living scandal.

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Kristi Noem labels immigrants as ‘dirt bags,’ pledges support to Homeland Security staff tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem promised staff to provide resources and support as the agency fulfills its duties, after earlier in the day saying she was in NYC accompanying U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “to get the dirt bags off our streets.”

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Chemtrail believers sway Az GOP lawmakers to support geoengineering ban tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Conspiracy theorists came out in force to support an Arizona Republican bill that aims to ban “geoengineering,” citing the long debunked “chemtrails” conspiracy theory as evidence that nefarious actors are already turning Arizona’s skies into a laboratory.

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Az Republican lawmakers ignore legal warnings to push forward with restrictions on trans people, flags tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican lawmakers are aiming to erase trans Arizonans from public life and ban government agencies from displaying LGBTQ pride flags, ignoring warnings from legislative attorneys that doing so could potentially violate the U.S. Constitution.

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Extension of temporary protections for Venezuelan immigrants revoked by Trump administration tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security revoked an extension of temporary protective status for nearly 600,000 Venezuelans, a decision that comes as President Trump has directed his administration to carry out highly publicized immigration enforcement actions.

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Former Wisconsin poet laureate, a member of the White Earth Nation, to give Tom Sanders Memorial Reading tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Kimberly Blaeser, an Ojibwe writer and photographer, will give a poetry reading at the University of Arizona this week. The former Wisconsin poet laureate's latest book, "Ancient Light," was published by the UA Press.

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