Tucson Politics

  The Flowing Wells Unified School District is taking a good look at how to handle federal education cuts, while rules and regs force more administrative work to comply; plus more from local government meetings around Tucson this week

  President Trump’s administration confirmed Friday that it’s releasing funds that support before- and after-school programs as well as summer programs, a portion of the $6.8 billion in withheld funds for K-12 schools that were supposed to be sent out two weeks ago.

  Hundreds of thousands of Arizonans will be receiving an unexpected surprise in the mail after state government funds were leveraged to pay off more than $400 million in medical debt.

  A federal judge dismissed three lawsuits filed by more than a dozen international students in Arizona who sued the federal government for suddenly terminating their visas, leaving them vulnerable to arrest and deportation.

  Nearly six months after Valentine's Day, NASA finally put out ROSES, but the total number of grant awards was cut by nearly three-quarters compared to last year. That puts Tucson's Planetary Science Institute in a tight spot.

  The three Arizona Republicans whose U.S. House seats the Democrats hope to nab next year hold comfortable fundraising leads, midyear campaign filings show.

  Tucson City Councilman Kevin Dahl faces challenger Sadie Shaw in the Aug. 5 Democratic primary

  A multistate coalition, including Arizona, sued the Trump administration challenging a proposal by the DHHS they warn would make it more difficult to receive health care though Affordable Care Act marketplaces and throw 1.8 million people off their health insurance.

  Arizona congressman Andy Biggs and Rep. Paul Gosar are among the many Republicans who stoked the Epstein conspiracy theory who have gone silent since July 7, while Sen. Ruben Gallego and other Democrats are enthusiastically exploiting the GOP fracture.

  The new state budget supports Tribal Nations in Arizona in two main ways: first, by giving Indigenous peoples increased access to traditional healing practices from specific health providers, and second, through secured funding for a new dialysis center on the Navajo Nation.

  The Justice Department is seeking the voter registration lists of Arizona and other states — representing data on millions of Americans — and other election information ahead of the 2026 midterms, raising fears about how the Trump administration plans to use the information.

  Arizona‘s elected leaders are calling for an end to ICE agents using masks and arresting people at their court hearings, saying the practices jeopardize public trust in law enforcement and flout the U.S. Constitution.

  Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly joined Kentucky Rep. Morgan McGarvey in calling the Republican plan to cancel $9 billion in spending on public broadcasting and foreign aid “devastating” to rural communities in their states.

  The U.S. Senate began debating changes to a bill that will cancel $9 billion in previously approved spending on public broadcasting and foreign aid — but with a deal for grants to some Native American radio stations that may help offset cuts to public media.

  Deja Foxx ran as a possible new Democratic phenom but when her primary challenge to the Grijalva legacy fell flat, so did she. The swagger disappeared. The pouting began.

  A coalition of 20 states including Arizona sued the Trump administration for shutting down a $4.5 billion grant program aimed at preventing natural disasters by strengthening local infrastructure.

  A Ninth Circuit panel appears split on two provisions of Arizona’s elections procedures manual enjoined by a federal judge after conservative groups challenged them over potential voter suppression.

  Veteran groups and an Arizona Democratic lawmaker, flanked by electric vehicles, urged federal lawmakers Tuesday morning to save a tax credit aimed at making the vehicles more affordable that is set to expire at the end of September.

  A federal judge considered whether pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline can discontinue a life-saving product to avoid Medicaid rebate payments under the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act.

  When Kaden Vitellaro joined the Arizona state prison system, he thought it would be a lifelong career. Instead, he says he was harassed, misgendered, and driven out — and the state used federal policy to justify it.

  The Republican Party is challenging the voting eligibility of some U.S. citizens who have always lived abroad, in what they’re calling a broader strategy ahead of next year’s midterms to clean up voter rolls and improve voter confidence.

  The Trump administration raised alarms last week about China snapping up farmland near U.S. military sites, but the latest federal data shows only a single Chinese-owned parcel in Arizona: 322 acres in Chandler, about 110 miles from the Yuma Proving Ground.

  The Trump administration raised alarms last week about China snapping up farmland near U.S. military sites, but the latest federal data shows only a single Chinese-owned parcel in Arizona: 322 acres in Chandler, about 110 miles from the Yuma Proving Ground.

  Updated: Adelita Grijalva was well ahead Tuesday in the five-way Democratic primary in the special election to replace her late father in the U.S. House of Representatives. Daniel Butierez was leading in the GOP primary.

  Updated: A monsoon storm knocked out power at Pima County's election headquarters on Tucson's South Side on Tuesday night, stopping the vote count in the Congressional District 7 special election for about an hour.