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  The Pima County Department of Environmental Quality issued a Dust Action Day for coarse particulate matter air pollution Tuesday for for all of Pima County, due to high winds and dry conditions.

  Hunters, hikers and outdoors lovers of all stripes mounted a campaign this month against a Republican proposal to sell off millions of acres of federal public land - but experts say federal lands face a slew of other threats from President Donald Trump’s administration.

  In a bipartisan compromise between state lawmakers and the executive branch, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs approved a program estimated to conserve nearly 10 million acre-feet of water and facilitate thousands of new housing developments across central Arizona.

  Hundreds of residents in several communities on the Navajo Nation are under evacuation orders as the Oak Ridge Fire burns with zero containment near Window Rock.

  "The University of Arizona’s recent decision to consolidate its seven cultural and identity-based centers into a single “multicultural hub” is not just a bureaucratic restructuring—it is an erasure." — Councilmembers Lane Santa Cruz & Rocque Perez

  Pima County's homeless population increased slightly from last year, leaving just over 2,000 people living outside, in shelters, or transitional housing, according to a January point-in-time count. But the number without any shelter has dropped by nearly 25 percent.

  As longtime advocates for people with disabilities, the ACLU of Arizona and Disability Rights Arizona are appalled by this reckless attack on a lifeline that millions of Arizonans depend on.

  A wildfire that erupted over the weekend on the Navajo Nation near the New Mexico border has grown to more than 6,200 acres, the biggest on the Navajo Nation since June 2020.

  Pima Animal Care Center, the county’s pet shelter, plans to open a satellite adoption site on Tucson’s East Side to reduce overcrowding at its main shelter on North Silverbell Road.

  A roundup of upcoming Tucson-area political events: Ward 6 hopefuls make their case at League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson event; Request your CD7 early ballot by July 7; Voter registration deadline for City of Tucson primary election looms; Sentinel team on the airwaves & more

  Before ending Arizona’s legislative session for the year, the state Senate voted to pass several lingering pieces of legislation that would do things like provide compensation for people who’ve been wrongly incarcerated and create more oversight for the state’s prisons.

  But babies born to immigrants in Arizona will continue to enjoy the protections of the U.S. Constitution - at least for now - and immigrant rights advocates are working to both extend that legal shield for children in the entire country and make it permanent.