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Sahuarita Unified · Governing Board

The Sahuarita Unified School District Governing Board on Wednesday approved a $1,802,961 contract amendment to replace fire alarm systems at four schools. The state's School Facilities Division will…

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Oro Valley · Town Council

The Oro Valley Town Council voted 7-0 Wednesday, Oct. 28, to adopt a zoning code amendment that eliminates standalone data centers from the town's zoning districts. The council set aside a Planning…

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TUSD · Governing Board

Tucson Unified School District administrators on Tuesday, Oct. 27, detailed plans to close four elementary schools and move Magee Middle School into Sabino High School for the 2027-28 school year.…

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Rio Nuevo · District Board

The Rio Nuevo Multipurpose Facilities District board learned Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, that its August tax revenue came in far below budget, and board members called for spending cuts and a strategic…

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Pima County · Board of Supervisors

The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 on Tuesday, Oct. 27, to name Deputy County Administrator Carmine DeBonis, Jr. the county's next administrator, effective Jan. 8, 2027. He will succeed…

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Oro Valley · Planning and Zoning Commission

The Oro Valley Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday, Oct. 27, voted 4-1 to recommend zoning code changes that would ban data centers using 20 megawatts of power or more. The changes would also…

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Oro Valley · Town Council

The Oro Valley Town Council voted 7-0 on Wednesday, October 21, to raise council salaries to $17,260.81 and the mayor's salary to $21,863.70. The council also tied future pay to the across-the-board…

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TUSD · Governing Board

The Tucson Unified School District Governing Board voted 4-1 on Tuesday, Oct. 20, to hold its first public study session on the administration's school closure and consolidation proposals on Oct. 27…

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Tucson · Mayor and Council

The Tucson City Council on Tuesday, Oct. 20, unanimously renewed the Tucson Police Department's participation in a statewide vehicle theft task force but added a condition: police must report back at…

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Marana · Town Council

The Marana Town Council on Tuesday, Oct. 20, voted 5-1 to tighten noise limits on data centers and to require operators to post financial guarantees covering the cost of dismantling abandoned sites.…

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Marana Unified · Governing Board

Marana Unified School District will stop running its own water system and connect several campuses to the town of Marana's supply, after testing in 2023 and 2024 found PFAS above the federal limit.…

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Sahuarita Unified · Governing Board

The Sahuarita Unified School District Governing Board on Wednesday, Oct. 14, approved the district's 2025-26 Annual Financial Report, which showed average daily membership down about 125 students…

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Pima County · Board of Supervisors

The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 on Tuesday, Oct. 13, to spend surplus money from last fiscal year on employee pay raises, recruitment and other county priorities. The plan raises the…

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Oro Valley · Town Council

The Oro Valley Town Council on Wednesday started an expedited code change to bar data centers from being allowed by right in any zoning district, with a moratorium "to the degree possible" while the…

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TUSD · Governing Board

Tucson Unified School District administrators will present their school closure and consolidation proposal to the Governing Board on Oct. 27, Superintendent Gabriel Trujillo said Tuesday, Oct. 6…

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Tucson · Mayor and Council

The Tucson City Council voted 5-2 on Tuesday, Oct. 6, to raise City Manager Timothy Thomure's salary to $375,000 and give his contract a two-year term that renews automatically unless the council…

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Marana · Town Council

Residents opposed to a federal immigration detention center planned for the former Marana prison filled the Town Council's call to the public Tuesday, Oct. 6. Council Member Patrick Cavanaugh said…

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Marana · Planning Commission

The Marana Planning Commission on Wednesday, Sept. 30, recommended without dissent that the Town Council approve new noise limits for data centers and require operators to set aside money to clean up…

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Sahuarita Unified · Governing Board

The Sahuarita Unified School District Governing Board on Wednesday, Sept. 23, adopted revised purchasing-ethics and conflict-of-interest policies that put the state's updated school accounting rules…

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Tucson · Mayor and Council

The Tucson City Council voted 4-3 on Tuesday, Sept. 22, to lower the point at which the city's large quantity water user ordinance applies, from 10,000 to 8,500 hundred cubic feet (CCF) of water per…

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Rio Nuevo · District Board

The Rio Nuevo Multipurpose Facilities District has about $725,000 left to commit over the next 12 months after $22 million in project promises, its chief financial officer told the board Sept. 22…

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Pima County · Board of Supervisors

The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday, Sept. 22, to impose a 120-day moratorium on new data center development in unincorporated Pima County. Supporters said the county needs time…

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Oro Valley · Town Council

Oro Valley collected $3.64 million less in local sales tax than it budgeted for the fiscal year that ended June 30, with construction sales tax down 30% from the year before, the town's finance chief…

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Marana · Town Council

The town has been operating as though it were in a Stage 2 drought without formally declaring one, and its Colorado River deliveries will be cut 14% in 2027 and 2028, water staff told the Town…

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Tucson · Mayor and Council

The Tucson Mayor and Council voted 4-3 Wednesday to put an immediate moratorium on naming and renaming city assets, setting aside a proposal to rename Joaquin Murrieta Park for Westside activist…

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Pima County · Board of Supervisors

The Pima County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, rewrote two economic development policies written in the wake of Project Blue so that any project drawing large amounts of water or…

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Oro Valley · Town Council

The Town Council voted 6-0 Wednesday to appeal a planning and zoning administrator's Aug. 21 decision on what can be built in the Rancho Vistoso Planned Area Development, after two executive sessions…

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Marana · Town Council

The Town Council voted Tuesday to rezone 28.1 acres at the southwest corner of Twin Peaks Road and Desert Falcon Lane from single-family residential to a specific plan, clearing the way for the Oro…

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Sahuarita Unified · Governing Board

The Sahuarita Unified School District Governing Board on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, approved its annual FY 2027 capital plan, touching off a pointed exchange over a state funding formula that counts…

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Rio Nuevo · District Board

The Rio Nuevo Multipurpose Facilities District board approved a $2.5 million investment package for the Friedman Block development and voted unanimously to extend the Tucson Children's Museum…

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Pima County · Board of Supervisors

The Pima County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Aug. 25, approved a $122,000 contract with the Southern Arizona Education Council over one dissenting vote, reversed its procurement director's…

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Tucson · Mayor and Council

The Tucson Mayor and Council voted 4-2 Tuesday, Aug. 18, to convey 212 acres of city-owned land to the U.S. Air Force at no charge, paving the way for potential expansion of Raytheon's operations — a…

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Marana · Town Council

The Marana Town Council on Monday unanimously approved paying a developer $319,265.89 in long-owed reimbursements and shared water costs for the Marana Main Street development, and in a separate vote…

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Pima County · Joint meeting with Tucson Mayor and Council

The Pima County Board of Supervisors and the Tucson City Council met jointly Thursday, Aug. 13, to advance the Prosperity Initiative, a shared framework targeting intergenerational poverty across…

Oro Valley · Town Council

Early voters in Oro Valley will have a ballot drop box at the town's public library this fall. The Town Council voted 7-0 on Aug. 12 to approve a license agreement with the Pima County Recorder's…

Pima County · Board of Supervisors

The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 Tuesday to direct county staff to draft a resolution imposing a 120-day moratorium on data centers in unincorporated Pima County, a move that followed a…

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Tucson · Mayor and Council

The Tucson Mayor and Council voted 6-1 Wednesday to adopt Ordinance 12268, a Unified Development Code amendment establishing regulations for large-scale data centers, making the city one of the first…

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Oro Valley · Town Council

The Oro Valley Town Council voted unanimously Wednesday to certify the results of the July 21, 2026, primary election and then moved into a closed-door executive session to receive legal advice on a…

Marana · Town Council

The Marana Town Council on Aug. 4 certified the results of the town's July 21 primary election and amended its 2022 wastewater plan, shifting roughly $1.6 million between two sewer projects to…

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Pima County · Board of Supervisors

Pima County issued 349,885 early ballots for the July 21 primary. Just 161,016 came back to be counted — a 46% return rate, the lowest for any primary in the three decades of statistics the county…

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Pima County · Board of Supervisors

The Pima County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday removed all five members of the county's Industrial Development Authority without cause and seated three replacements, declining to reinstate two…

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Tucson · Mayor and Council

Twenty Tucson police officers, two community service officers, five sergeants and a force commander were already stationed in downtown Tucson when a shooting erupted there last Sunday, City Manager…

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A 21-year-old man who court records show was already on probation for a 2024 aggravated assault has been charged with 19 felonies in a shooting that wounded nine people outside Empire Pizza in…

Pima County · Board of Supervisors

The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to reaffirm its opposition to construction of a border wall on Tohono O'odham Nation lands, backing the tribe's federal lawsuit against the U.S.…

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Tucson · Mayor and Council

The Tucson City Council on Monday unanimously passed the fiscal year 2027 primary and secondary property tax levy ordinance and approved a University of Arizona contract to independently evaluate a…

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Pima County · Board of Supervisors

The Pima County Board of Supervisors approved a $1.809 billion final budget for fiscal year 2026-27 on a 4-1 vote Monday, including a last-minute amendment directing $1,000 one-time bonuses for…

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Oro Valley · Town Council

The Town Council voted 4-3 Wednesday to reapprove a 2.5% local use tax set to take effect July 1, after the Arizona Department of Revenue failed to update the town's model city tax code within the…

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Pima County · Board of Supervisors

Federal cuts to food assistance and Medicaid under HR 1 have already pushed nearly half of Pima County's SNAP households off the program and could force 25,000 to 35,000 adults to meet new Medicaid…

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Pima County · Board of Supervisors

The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to hire a professional recruitment firm to lead the search for a new county administrator, acknowledging that an initial open application period…

Oro Valley · Town Council

The Oro Valley Town Council unanimously approved a $127,990,000 tentative budget for fiscal year 2026-27 at its June 3 meeting, even as finance staff warned that local sales tax revenue has fallen…

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Marana · Town Council

The Marana Town Council on Tuesday unanimously approved amendments to the town's public art policy, canvassed election results for a new Community Facilities District, and received an update on state…

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Pima County · Board of Supervisors

The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to adopt a $1.81 billion tentative budget for fiscal year 2026-27, setting the maximum spending ceiling ahead of final adoption scheduled for…

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Oro Valley · Town Council

The Oro Valley Town Council voted 6-1 Wednesday to approve a zoning text amendment allowing Sun City Oro Valley to restore its long-dormant Lion's Head Fountain, overriding staff recommendations for…

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Tucson · Mayor and Council

The Tucson City Council on Tuesday adopted a tentative budget for fiscal year 2026-27 and passed four fee-increase packages covering planning, water, transportation and environmental services. The…

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Marana · Town Council

The Marana Town Council unanimously adopted a $560.2 million tentative budget for fiscal year 2026-2027 at its regular meeting Tuesday, a $57.3 million increase over the previously recommended figure…

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Pima County · Board of Supervisors

Pima County health officials told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday that indoor heat-related deaths have decreased in recent years, a trend they attributed to expanded community outreach and…

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Pima County · Board of Supervisors

The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 Tuesday, with one abstention, to ask the Arizona Attorney General's office to review allegations of potential perjury by Sheriff Chris Nanos — while…

Oro Valley · Town Council

The Oro Valley Town Council voted 6-0 Wednesday to adopt the town's "Path Forward" General Plan — a document three years in the making — clearing the way for the measure to go before voters on the…

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Tucson · Mayor and Council

The Tucson City Council voted 7-0 Tuesday to oppose a proposed federal immigration detention facility in Marana and 7-0 to oppose the Hudbay Minerals Copper World open-pit mine in the Santa Rita…

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Pima County · Board of Supervisors

The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 2-1 Monday to approve Resolution 2026-25, formally opposing Tucson Electric Power's proposed 14% rate increase before the Arizona Corporation Commission and…

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Marana · Town Council

The Marana Town Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a second amendment to the Vanderbilt Farms development agreement — now known as the Monarch development — authorizing up to $9.5 million in…

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Oro Valley · Town Council

The Oro Valley Town Council voted 6-1 Wednesday to authorize $461,399 in additional funding from the general fund contingency account to complete the Vistoso Trails Nature Preserve pond restoration…

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