With grant gone, Pima County sheriff hints he’ll need local dollars for border efforts
TUCSON – After the Pima County Board of Supervisors rejected to approve a federal grant aimed at border patrolling, Sheriff Mark Napier has to find another way to get funding for his department.
They also serve: 4,254 volunteers keep Arizona national parks humming
WASHINGTON - Last year, 4,254 people donated more than 200,000 hours of volunteer work at 16 national parks in Arizona, orienting visitors, maintaining historical collections, monitoring wildlife and more. And despite reports of friction at an East Coast park, Arizona staff and volunteers seem to get along fine.
Flake joins other senators, wins delay on Kavanaugh after allegation
WASHINGTON - Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake and a handful of other Republican senators broke with leadership Monday and won a delay of a scheduled vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, after allegations of a decades-old sexual assault surfaced.
More play: New Arizona law requires schools to provide two recesses
GILBERT – A new Arizona law requires district and charter schools to expand recess from once a day to twice a day for kindergarten through third grade. It will extend to Grade 5 by August 2019.
Free thinkers: Advocates tout universal basic income, despite critics
WASHINGTON - Despite reports showing rising incomes and falling poverty, advocates of universal basic income - regular govenment payments to citizens, with no preconditions and no strings attached - say it's as timely now as ever. But critics say UBI is too costly and too impractical to ever come to be.
Pat Tillman’s legacy to be honored in football game between alma mater, Liberty High
PEORIA - The late Pat Tillman's legacy will be honored when his alma mater, Leland High School, plays Liberty High in Peoria for a football game.
Grijalva, Bishop craft surprise deal to save fund for public lands
WASHINGTON - A House committee unanimously approved a surprise, bipartisan plan to save a popular land conservation fund Thursday, just weeks before the $900 million Land and Water Conservation Fund was set to expire, a victim of partisan feuding.
ACLU lawsuit: Phoenix police wrongfully used tear gas, pepper bullets against anti-Trump protesters
The ACLU and activists have filed a class-action lawsuit against Phoenix, claiming police overreacted with projectiles and pepper spray at an August 2017 rally near the Phoenix Convention Center.
Policing the jails: Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office works to diversify ranks of detention officers
Spanish speaking detention officers like Valeria Cazares are part of efforts by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office to bridge a communications and cultural divide with inmates.
Appeals court rejects Democrats’ challenge to Arizona’s voting laws
WASHINGTON - A divided federal appeals court rejected Democratic challenges to two Arizona voting laws, upholding a lower court that said the rules put a minimal burden on voters and there was no evidence they were aimed at minority voters.
Democrats push back against GOP plan to change Endangered Species Act
WASHINGTON - Democratic lawmakers said that efforts by House Republicans and the Trump administration efforts to revamp the Endangered Species Act disregard science and ignore the impact that climate change is having on wildlife and their habitats.
Maricopa County to rely ‘completely on county employees’ for Nov. 6 election
PHOENIX – Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes addressed the polling problems faced during the 2018 primary election and steps the county is taking to improve for the general election.
