Tucson Politics

  "Christian Nationalism can be seen not so much as a more traditional political Christian movement but rather an authoritarian anti-democratic movement within a religion." — Tucson resident Gary Jones

  Four weeks before the November election, vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz will hold competing events in Tucson on Wednesday.

  The Tucson City Council has to hold a closed-door meeting with county officials to discuss protection of poll workers, former Jerry's Lee Ho Market to get new small biz center, and more from government meetings around Tucson.

  Four weeks before the November election, vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz will hold competing events on Tucson on Wednesday.

  The threat of a government shutdown thrust noncitizen voting, a long-standing Arizona political flashpoint, into the national spotlight, and although Congress passed a new spending package without the SAVE Act, its original inclusion points to the popularity of voter-fraud narratives.

  The Supreme Court agreed to review Mexico’s lawsuit seeking to hold U.S. gun manufacturers liable for selling weapons to cartel-linked traffickers.

  A week after getting funding for three major water conservation projects, the Gila River Indian Community has already broken ground on the first two projects — the Lining of Blackwater Irrigation Canals and the Efficiency Improvements to Gila River Farms.

  Arizona's ballot Prop. 314 would further criminalize migration. It has both ample voter support, according to polls, and staunch opposition from business groups, law enforcement and activists, who call it "SB 1070 on steroids."

  As the lone Republican on the five-member Pima County Board of Supervisors, Steve Christy sees himself as offering a counterbalance to the Democratic majority.

  Pima County’s District 4 has been Republican territory ever since the modern version of the Southeast Side district was first drawn back in the early 1970s. This year, Democrat Vanessa Bechtol hopes to change that as she challenges Republican incumbent Steve Christy.

  A profile of Vanessa Bechtol, who is running against Steve Christy for the District 4 seat on the Pima County Board of Supervisors.

  The CD-ROM will go the way of the VHS and cassette tapes at the Pima County Public Library next year. CDs will be removed from circulation, with a handful of exceptions, at the start of January.

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

  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.

  " How can a candidate for sheriff who is willing to skew facts, advance wild allegations with no evidence, and use inflammatory and distorted language ever be trusted to lead law enforcement investigations that matter to the community?" — retired Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik

  Arizona officials who discovered they hadn’t obtained proof of citizenship from nearly 100,000 registered voters were relieved when the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that they wouldn’t be required to ask for it, but new details are raising questions about the state’s handling of the error.

  GOP state Senate candidate Vince Leach 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.

  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.

  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.

  Arizona's Medicaid system AHCCCS announced a program that will provide housing support and health care for homeless patients who have a serious mental illness. The H2O initiative will receive $110 million in funding over five years.

  A conversation with U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, who announced this week he would not seek another term in 2026.

  Arizona can’t suspend someone’s driver’s license because they have THC in their bloodstream unless they are actually impaired while behind the wheel, the state Court of Appeals ruled, upholding a provision in a marijuana legalization law that voters passed in 2020.

  Abortion rights are emerging as a major issue in the race for Southern Arizona’s Congressional District 6, where U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani is facing a rematch from Democrat Kirsten Engel.

  The fate of two Arizona men accused of aiding and participating in a polygamous child sex abuse ring now lies in the hands of 12 jurors.

  Tucson's U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, diagnosed with cancer early this year and absent from the U.S. Capitol since February, says his next term will be his last.