A roundup of upcoming Tucson-area political events: Early voting sites open Friday for special congressional election on Sept. 23; Sentinel team on the airwaves; City Council elections on the horizon; & more

  Information about STAR Village pilot program, a city-designated "safe sleeping site," drew strong reactions from a standing-room-only crowd at a Wednesday community meeting in Tucson.

  Secretary of State Adrian Fontes’ election manual had sought to ban certain activities at polling places. The judges said it would infringe on political speech.

  Updated: The developers of a planned Tucson data center say they're moving ahead after the City Council rejected a deal for reclaimed water for the site. Project Blue will instead use a "closed-loop" air-cooling system that will consume no water but use more power, the company said.

  Former Arizona legislator Austin Smith has been offered a plea deal in a multiple-felony criminal case that alleges he personally forged numerous voter signatures on his own petitions for reelection.

  The "Trojan Horse" argument that universities are dangerous must be dismantled and the motivations inside need to be exposed. The very people railing against higher education have built their careers on it.

  With the Sept. 23 special Congressional District 7 election less than a week away, campaign finance reports show that Democrat Adelita Grijalva has raised more than six times as much money as Republican Daniel Butierez.

  Cochise County officials want the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate a longstanding and disputed claim that the federal laboratories that test voting systems across the country weren’t properly accredited before the 2022 midterm election.

  Arizona has been selling its water, land and now electricity as if they were infinite. But what happens when that spark burns out, and Arizonans are left in a blackout? What protections stand between us and a deadly outcome?

  Some Democrats in the Arizona House of Representatives say they feel unsafe around a Republican lawmaker after he responded to a call for unity in the face of political violence with a misinformation-filled diatribe where he claimed that the Democratic Party “has woken the sleeping giant” following the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

  In state legislatures around the country, medication abortion has emerged as the central focus of the fight over abortion rights.

  Ahead of the first forum of the general election cycle on Monday night, the Republican candidates in this year’s City Council races are trailing the Democratic candidates on the fundraising front.