Over the last three-and-a-half years, Pima County has used millions in federal funds to develop "sustainable, tangible" programs to solve critical issues, said Pima County Chair Adelita Grijlava on Friday. During a meeting with Tom Perez, a senior advisor to President Joe Biden and director of the White House Office...

The CD-ROM will go the way of the VHS and the cassette tape at the Pima County Public Library starting next year. CDs will be removed from circulation, with a handful of exceptions, beginning January 2, 2025, the library system announced Wednesday. Library officials said 51 percent of the CD...

Votes will be counted for an open primaries ballot initiative that has been the subject of whiplash-inducing court challenge, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled just 31 days before the election. The high court ruled on Friday, affirming the Sept. 19 decision of a trial court that backers of Proposition 140...

Heather Lappin's campaign style is consistent: Project unsubstantiated, false claims, and presents herself as the solution with no specific platform or ideas about how to be sheriff. It is tiring to hear what her favorite slights are: "corruption," "cronyism/good ol' boys," "backroom deals," and references to mysterious investigations. The reality...

More than 500 voters in Pima County are being sent new registration cards after a constituent alerted officials about errors. A "mapping error" assigned some voters to the wrong school district — mostly in the Continental Elementary School District. In that district in the southern part of the county,...

Highlighted in Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign as one of the major crises facing the country, climate change has received much less attention in the 2024 race for the presidency. The candidates, Republican former President Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, share the twin goals of lowering energy costs and increasing U.S. jobs in the sector, but diverge widely in their plans to get there.

Violent crime and property crime in the United States dropped in 2023, continuing a downward trend following higher rates of crime during the pandemic, according to the FBI’s latest national crime report. Murders and intentional manslaughter, known as non-negligent manslaughter, fell by 11.6% from 2022. Property crime dropped by...

Calling former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters a charlatan peddling snake oil, a Colorado judge on Thursday sentenced her to nine years in jail for committing four felonies and three misdemeanors related to a 2021 leak of voting machine data. “I’m convinced you would do it all over...

In the months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion, there was a spike in the number of women seeking sterilizations to prevent pregnancy, a recent study shows. Researchers saw a 3% increase in tubal sterilizations per month between July and December 2022 in...

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Arizona election officials who suddenly discovered that they hadn’t obtained proof of citizenship from nearly 100,000 registered voters were relieved last month when the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that they wouldn’t be required to ask for it before the November election.

The Indian Citizenship Act was signed into law in June 1924, granting Indigenous people born in the United States citizenship and the right to vote. Although this was 100 years ago, today Indigenous people in Arizona still face many challenges when it comes to the electoral process at the federal, state and local levels.

Last month, experts examined cancer in medically underserved communities at the 17th annual American Association for Cancer Research Conference in Los Angeles. One panel was dedicated to the intersections of climate change and cancer disparities. The panelists said there is a need for a more equitable approach to environmental justice...

A GOP candidate whose state Senate race could determine which party controls the legislature embraced a racist lie demonizing a group of legal immigrants, telling a room of gay Republicans last month that Pima County’s stray dogs would be fed to Haitian people if Democrats win elections. Vince Leach...

Anyone wishing to cast a ballot in the Nov. 5 presidential election must register to vote by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 7. Voters should double-check their registration before the deadline to make sure they're squared away, officials advised. Besides the presidential race, Pima County voters can make their choices...

An exhibit of miniature models of Broadway stages by renowned creative director and designer David Korins opened in the Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures in Tucson, titled "Stages of Imagination: The Iconic Broadway Designs of David Korins." "I get a chance to work on projects and help institutions and...

Arizona's Medicaid system — the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System — announced a statewide program Tuesday that will provide housing support and health care for homeless patients who have a serious mental illness. The initiative will receive $110 million in funding over five years. The Housing and...

Two Arizona men are facing up to life in prison after a jury found them guilty Wednesday afternoon of aiding and participating in a polygamous child sex abuse ring for three years across multiple states. LaDell Bistline Jr., a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...

Homelessness is a rare issue in American politics that does not cut neatly along party or ideological lines. It can be hard to predict who will support or oppose measures to expand affordable housing and services for people without homes. San Francisco, for example – one of the most progressive...

As the 2024 presidential election approaches, women of color are emerging as one of the most influential voting blocs in the United States. Their growing political power is reshaping policy debates and driving grassroots activism across the country. Arizona, a battleground state, has seen substantial change to the racial and...

This story was originally published by The 19th. Nearly a quarter of women voters who think abortion should be legal all or most of the time plan to cast their votes for former President Donald Trump, according to analysis of the latest 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll. For these women, other issues...