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Gov. Doug Ducey is telling barber shops, salons, spas and businesses that offer tattoos and massage to close by Saturday at 5 p.m..

City officials and police departments are figuring out how to best enforce Gov. Doug Ducey’s stay-at-home order and help clear up confusion about the order’s baby teeth enforcement provision that leaves cracking down discretionary and up to local police.

The City of Tucson is ordering all businesses not considered “essential” by Gov. Doug Ducey’s recent “essential services” executive order to close starting Saturday morning.

In apparent defiance of Gov. Doug Ducey’s recent executive order defining “essential services,” Flagstaff Mayor Coral Evans is expanding the types of businesses closed in the city for now.

Arizona’s health director said today statewide cases of COVID-19 will peak in mid to late April and hospitalizations will peak in May.

In an attempt to relieve some economic anxiety from the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Doug Ducey issued an executive order delaying the enforcement of eviction orders for renters impacted by it.

Although Arizona is “not at this time” ready to implement a stay-at-home order, Gov. Doug Ducey issued an executive order Monday that lists which businesses could remain open.

In an executive order, Ducey allowed people out of a job or facing economic hardship because of the pandemic to access unemployment benefits. He also unveiled an administrative action from the Arizona Department of Revenue to extend the income tax filing deadline to July 15, mirroring the new federal deadline.

Gov. Doug Ducey and Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman are extending their closure of Arizona schools by another two weeks, until Friday, April 10, to protect students from the spread of COVID-19.

As some grocery store shelves lay as bare as Cactus League stadiums and restaurant dining rooms, lawmakers in the Arizona Legislature are scurrying to wrap up their business, begin their social isolation and hunker down for a storm. Their rainy day is here.