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Lingering drought and demand from growing cities have lowered water levels on Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam. The U.S. Interior Department could declare a shortage on the Colorado River as early as 2017. (U.S. Geological Survey Photo)
Apr 15, 2014

Arizona’s long-term water future: Is the state ready to make hard decisions?

Residents of the Sun Corridor stretching through the Valley and Tucson turn on faucets, water lawns and fill swimming pools without any doubt that the state’s most precious resource will always be there.

An A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft from the 124th Operations Support Flight flying over Utah in early 2012. The Pentagon wants to retire the 40-year-old close-support fighter jets as part of its budget-cutting. (Photo by Staff Sgt Stephany Richards/U.S. Air Force)
Apr 11, 2014

Arizona lawmakers blast ‘ridiculous’ plan to retire A-10 fighter jets

Arizona congressmen Thursday renewed calls for the Pentagon to drop its “absolutely ridiculous” plan to retire the A-10 fighter, saying the replacement F-35 is 10 times as costly and does not protect ground forces as well.

Apr 11, 2014

Tucson, Tubac, Tumacacori, ‘Tohell’

Southern Arizona rancher Pete Kitchen was best known for his choice hams and his humor.  His hams graced tables from Nogales to Santa Fe, and his humor was part of... […]

Apr 10, 2014

State’s next crisis could be backlog of adult abuse cases

While all eyes are on the reconstruction of the state’s child-welfare agency, a growing backlog of abuse and neglect cases involving adults who can’t care for themselves threatens to become the next big crisis.

Apr 10, 2014

Planned Parenthood challenges medication abortion law in state court

Planned Parenthood and a Tucson clinic owner have gone to Maricopa County Superior Court to challenge a state rule requiring doctors to use federal standards in administering abortion medication.

Apr 8, 2014

Court delays enforcement of medication abortions law at least until May

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is going to keep a temporary hold on a state rule regulating medication abortions and put an appeal of a lower court’s ruling on the fast track.

Apr 8, 2014

White House cites Tucson shooting survivor for work against gun violence

WASHINGTON – Pam Simon said she remembers only part of what happened that January day in the parking lot of a Tucson supermarket.

Louis Killeen and friends at the Hotel Modesti outside Gila Bend.
Apr 7, 2014

Agua Caliente

In 1915, Louis Killeen outfitted two cars and left Phoenix for a two-day drive through the desert to Agua Caliente Hot Springs resort, the ruins of which still stand 30 miles west of Gila Bend, off Interstate 8.

Apr 3, 2014

So near yet so far: Budget stalemate stymies lawmakers

The Arizona Senate pushed budget negotiations into next week, declining to appoint senators immediately to a conference committee to hash out differences between budget proposals despite a signal that the House has enough votes for a compromise.

Arizona Sen. Steve Gallardo (AP Photo)
Apr 1, 2014

Dem senator tells gay colleague to ‘act more gay’

Sen. Olivia Cajero Bedford questioned Sen. Steve Gallardo’s honesty in regards to his sexual orientation in a closed-door caucus meeting on Tuesday and said Gallardo should “act more gay.”

Senate Minority Leader Anna Tovar (Photo by Evan Wyloge/Arizona Capitol Times)
Apr 1, 2014

Senate Dem leaders survive coup attempt, but caucus remains fractured

Senate Democrats held a closed-door meeting Tuesday afternoon that spiraled out of control, resulting in a bungled attempt at a vote to oust caucus leaders.

Mar 31, 2014

UA vet school money yet to materialize

Plans to create a veterinary school at the University of Arizona have hit a roadblock as state lawmakers approved just enough money to tease the idea but not enough to actually make it happen.

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