Tucson Politics

  Dog bites in Pima County have decreased 22 percent in Pima County since 2010, according to a new report from Pima Animal Control Center, despite a dramatic reduction in euthanasia at the shelter.

  The committee behind a proposition to end partisan primaries is asking the Arizona Supreme Court to reconsider its order allowing a challenge to the initiative’s place on the ballot to move forward, calling the court’s action “unprecedented” and contrary to more than 80 years of case law.

  The Regional Transportation Authority is suddenly undead as the Tucson City Council entertains a compromise under a time crunch. If the Council goes for RTA Next, then they can move ahead with a city tax plan to deal with other needs.

  A judge signed off on an agreement between Gov. Katie Hobbs and Republican legislative leaders, in which she consented to nominate directors for several state agencies early next year.

  President Joe Biden will nominate Phoenix lawyer Sharad Desai to the federal bench, the White House said Wednesday, making him the second South Asian federal judge in Arizona – after his older sister.

  U.S. and Mexican officials have yet to take a 60-year-old Mexican man to a hospital after he was seriously injured when he plummeted from the border wall in the remote desert nearly a dozen miles west of Sasabe, Ariz., aid workers said.

  Pima County will receive more than $18.7 million in federal dollars to shelter asylum seekers, part of $47.3 million headed to Arizona, U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego said Wednesday.

  Long COVID and his gang of symptoms are the focus of a new Pima County Health Department campaign: a comic book with a main character who'll appear this weekend at Tucson Comic-Con.

  U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani and Democratic challenger Kirsten Engel will meet in a televised debate Thursday night.

  The Arizona Supreme Court sided with Arizona legislators over a trial court judge who concluded their description of a ballot proposition to end partisan primaries was “misleading,” overturning the lower court’s ruling and allowing the language to stand on the November ballot.

  Rounding up the endorsements in the CD 6 race between Republican incumbent Juan Ciscomani and Democrat Kirsten Engel:

  Two attorneys - Kurt Olsen and Andrew Parker - who represented Kari Lake in a bid to get tabulators banned from the 2022 election, will not face discipline for their claims in that case.

  A Colorado man charged with threatening elections officials in Colorado and Arizona on social media appeared in federal court on a single charge of making threats in interstate commerce.

  Attorneys battling over the proposed merger of the Kroger and Albertsons supermarket chains painted drastically different pictures in federal court on Monday about what would happen if the two giants combined, kicking off a trial that is expected to last until mid-September.

  Rudy Giuliani and Az GOP leaders argued that an indictment accusing them of conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election should be dismissed under Arizona’s newly amended anti-SLAPP statute, barring prosecutions intended to inhibit free exercise of First Amendment rights.

  Catalina Foothills Superintendent Denise Bartlett is set to lay out her to-do list. Plus: electric buses coming to TUSD, Flowing Wells kids to get cash incentives for honors math and more from local government meetings around Tucson.

  Applications are being accepted to fill a vacancy on the Pima County Superior Court bench created by the retirement of Judge Renee Bennett.

  Arizona voters will see a ballot proposition to end partisan primaries on their ballots in November, but whether their votes will actually count remains very up in the air.

  Showcasing the colors, geography and experiences of the state, the Arizona Office of Tourism unveiled “Vibrant Arizona,” a new brand highlighting the state’s diversity and vibrant culture.

  A judge has, for a second time, ordered Kari Lake and her husband to hand over documents to Stephen Richer that pertain to her defamatory statements about the Maricopa County Recorder, while Richer was order to pay $25k for documents submitted by Merissa Hamilton.

  Election experts say they’re confident that the system’s checks and balances will quash efforts to delay or avoid certifying results, but election officials are still concerned that the attempts could push the process close to strict deadlines and stoke doubts about the integrity of the election.

  U.S. Senate candidates Kari Lake and Ruben Gallego, the Arizonans facing each other in one of the most-watched races in the nation, have agreed to a televised debate.

  The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a ballot proposition to end partisan primaries will be allowed to appear on the November ballot, though the initiative is still facing another legal challenge to its place on the ballot that won't be settled for several weeks.

  Arizona voters will decide whether state judges should be awarded lifetime appointments, after the Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday cleared a proposal to do just that for the November ballot.

  Arizona voters will decide whether state judges should be awarded lifetime appointments, after the Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday cleared a proposal to do just that for the November ballot.