Tucson Politics

  U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva's office announced Thursday that he is collecting reports about how the loss of federal funding is affecting Southern Arizona organizations and companies.

  Tucson election officials are urging voters to mail their Prop. 414 ballot back by Wednesday, March 5, so they are received by the deadline of next Tuesday.

  Doctors and women now have the final say about when an abortion should be performed, after a Maricopa County Superior Court judge struck down the state’s 15-week ban following last year’s vote to enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona Constitution.

  Although the CARE program at NAU worked mainly with Indigenous students, the program welcomed everyone - but after President Trump issued several executive orders banning DEI, CARE has scaled back significantly and is in danger of shutting down.

  Maricopa County’s new recorder is rejecting an agreement that splits control of the county’s elections between his office and supervisors, and is threatening to sue the supervisors if they don’t give him more power.

  Mexico received little sympathy from the Supreme Court as it fought to hold U.S. gun manufacturers accountable for cartel violence, which is fueling border tensions.

  A roundup of political activity in the coming weeks, including the culmination of the Prop. 414 election.

  The Arizona Senate gave preliminary approval to Senate Bill 1164, which would force public schools to open their doors to ICE agents, amid a growing wave of school officials issuing guidance or passing rules against doing so.

  As President Donald Trump’s administration moves to shut down federal office spaces, several tribes across the country will be left without a Bureau of Indian Affairs office space, including in Arizona.

  After six weeks of throwing the economy, federal agencies and relations with allies into turmoil, Arizona Democrats say, nothing President Donald Trump tells Congress on Tuesday night could unify the country behind him.

  Republicans in Congress have gotten a crash course in Medicaid during the last few weeks, as they eye the health care program for lower-income Americans as a source for hundreds of billions of dollars in savings to pay for tax cuts.

  While advocates advised families of queer youth to stop showing up at the Arizona Capitol for fear of being sought out and investigated, others continue to have their voices heard in hearings.

  The nation’s largest community college system, Maricopa County Community College District, announced that Equality Maricopa, the college’s largest affinity group for LGBTQ+ staff, students, and teachers, is being disbanded to comply with an end-of-the-day deadline.

  Tucson residents can drop off old cleaning products, batteries, paint and paper documents at Pima Community College West, during the city's monthly household hazardous waste collection event, set for Saturday morning, March 8.

  GOP lawmakers - including Az Rep. Eli Crane - are eyeing impeachments against as many as a dozen judges who have issued temporary holds on some of President Donald Trump’s ambitious executive actions - but it remains unclear whether House leadership is on board.

  The Ninth Circuit upheld a ruling Tuesday that finds Arizona’s requirement for direct-shipping wine to customers doesn’t violate the U.S. Constitution’s commerce clause.

  Republican lawmakers want to make it impossible for Arizonans to let local voters challenge development projects at the ballot so that Axon can build a massive new headquarters and housing project in Scottsdale without opposition.

  Some mayors in northern Arizona attribute a host of problems affecting their cities to a 2016 law preventing them from regulating short-term rentals, and are asking state legislators to return local control to cities so they can create rules that suit their individual needs.

  Arizona’s Department of Water Resources released a draft proposal that it says will conserve water and promote new housing construction by converting farmland into urban developments.

  Gov. Katie Hobbs and Republicans who control the Arizona legislature have spent weeks trading barbs over who’s at fault for an impending lapse in funding for disabled services. Meanwhile, people with disabilities are caught in the middle.

  Updated: The city of Tucson's financial team is warning of a $13 million budget shortfall; Marana residents could pay a couple bucks more for water, Oro Valley does without consultants and more in local government meetings around Tucson.

  U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva can't make votes in Washington and so he needs to resign ASAP and let Gov. Katie Hobbs call a special election — so voters can choose a representative capable of doing a job that desperately needs to be done.

  Furious with Elon Musk and the Trump administration's treatment of federal employees, around 1,000 people protested on Saturday at Tucson's Tesla dealership. Another demonstration was held at Saguaro National Park.

  A Texas measles outbreak has killed an unvaccinated child. Pima County’s decreasing immunization rate puts our community at risk if the highly contagious virus spreads.

  Many LGBTQ+ people fleeing are Arizona, where LGBTQ+ rights are hotly contested, and though their reasons for leaving vary - from health care to protecting their marriages - there was one common thread: Arizona is no longer safe.