Tucson Politics

  A second person has filed to run as a write-in candidate for Pima County constable in JP9, which had no one listed on the ballot after the incumbent was booted from the race — but one may face a legal challenge.

  Voters can get a look at candidates in several Southern Arizona primary races next week.

  Updated: The Arizona Department of Health Services has dialed back on their announcement of a "recall" of  "Diamond Shruumz" mushroom-infused candies, which have been associated with several severe reactions across the country.

  Arizona’s unemployment rate fell in May to its lowest rate ever recorded, reaching a seasonally adjusted 3.4% and falling below the previous record of 3.5%, but the job boom has yet to translate into popularity for President Joe Biden.

  Voters in as many as nine states could sidestep legislators and directly decide whether to expand access to abortion through citizen-led ballot initiatives, though GOP lawmakers have tightened signature requirements or raised the percentage of the vote required for initiatives to pass.

  A judge on Thursday blocked the transfer of $115 million from the state’s share of the national opioid settlement that legislators approved less than a week ago as a key component of balancing a nearly $1.4 billion budget deficit.

  The Democrats’ House campaign arm plans to inject $2.8 million into two battleground districts in Arizona, targeting U.S. Reps. David Schweikert and Juan Ciscomani, who both won by narrow margins in 2022.

  As she promised, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has appealed a judge’s ruling that she violated state statute when she bypassed the Senate confirmation process for appointing directors of state agencies.

  Two Phoenix-area men face federal charges after investigators said they allegedly produced fake IDs, including Social Security cards and permanent residency documents, officials said Thursday.

  Pima County School Superintendent Dustin J. Williams has made four new appointments to three local school boards. All four of the new governing board members will serve until the November election, in which they will have the chance to run for re-election.

  The Tucson’s Housing First program is seeking volunteers to help put together care kits to be handed out to homeless residents across the city.

  Cooling centers set up to help people escape Tucson's summer days are made from two old cargo containers, part of an effort to repurpose dozens of the steel boxes used as part of former Gov. Doug Ducey's ad-hoc border barrier.

  Through the end of November, Arizona doctors can get temporary licenses to perform abortions in California for Arizona patients - but so far no Arizona doctors have signed up after the urgency subsided when the state Legislature repealed the 1864 ban.

  Migrants and their advocates welcomed President Joe Biden’s order protecting undocumented immigrants who are married to Americans, an order that will help roughly half a million immigrants will also benefit 50,000 of their noncitizen children under age 21.

  Pinal County Democrats Chair Lisa Sanor is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate a political action committee incorporated as a domestic nonprofit in December 2022 and tied to Republican senatorial hopeful Kari Lake.

  A write-in candidate has filed to run for constable in Justice Precinct 9, which had zero candidates for the office after the incumbent was booted from the ballot. Gerard Acuña filed paperwork to run on June 10 — but in April he tried to run for constable in a different precinct, raising questions about his residency.

  After U.S. Rep. Eli Crane got $900,000 worth of support from Kevin McCarthy when he won his Arizona congressional seat, he was one of eight Republicans who ousted McCarthy. Now Crane's camp has denounced his primary challenger as a “puppet” for the deposed House speaker.

  The Pima County Board of Supervisors left the total county tax rate right where it was for the current (about to end) fiscal year. But taxes were set to end up lower if the board took no action.

  Andrés Cano, a former Tucson-area lawmaker who resigned last year to undertake graduate studies at Harvard, has been named as the city government's director of Federal & State Relations. The position entails obtaining government grants for Tucson — a high-profile post in an election year in which the Biden administration is focused on Arizona.

  A state judge denied multiple motions to dismiss and remand charges against Cochise County supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd, accused of interfering with an election officer in 2022.

  Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has ordered flags at all state buildings to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Thursday, June 20, in remembrance of Scottsdale Police Detective Ryan So, who was killed in the line of duty on June 13.

  Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed into law a $16.1 billion state budget for the upcoming fiscal year on Tuesday, amid threats of a lawsuit from the state attorney general and disapproval from both sides of the political aisle.

  In a packed room, a full slate of candidates vying for two of the county's top positions — Pima County attorney and Pima County sheriff — answered questions during a forum Monday night.

  Two of Donald Trump’s attorneys and a former U.S. Senate candidate for Arizona pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning in connection to the 2020 Arizona fake elector scheme.

  Indigenous students enrolled in schools run by the Bureau of Indian Education will have access to more comprehensive, culturally relevant agricultural training and education as part of a new partnership the BIE established with the Native American Agriculture Fund.