Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing another manufactured home park and its owners in her latest effort to bring accountability to an industry that has long had little concrete oversight. Mayes filed a consumer fraud lawsuit against Palo Verde Mobile Home Park, LLC;  Landon Asset Management, LLC, the owner of 18 homes at the […]

Voter guide to Props 414, 415, 416 on Nov. 4; TUSD override, Flowing Wells and Sunnyside bonds for teacher pay, building repairs and student programs

In late summer, a jaguar padded somewhere near the San Rafael Valley, a pristine grassland nestled between the Patagonia and Huachuca Mountains southeast of Tucson. Trail cameras monitored by Sky Island Alliance confirmed its presence in the “impact zone” of a new 27-mile border wall slated for construction in that high country grasslands.  For conservationists […]

Pima County voters support schools, statistics show. Every school-related bond and override on a ballot has passed within Pima County since 2020. Since 2016, our pass rate has been 83%, according to the Pima County School Superintendent’s office. But public school administrators, teachers, staff and many of the students they support don’t necessarily feel that […]

Amphitheater Public Schools will close up to five elementary schools next school year because of declining enrollment, the superintendent said in a letter to staff and parents this week. Amphi will decide which schools to shutter by the end of December. The declining enrollment is due to two main factors, Amphi administrators say: The dropping […]

A federal judge formally ordered changes Friday to community meetings tied to a nearly 20-year-old racial profiling case and ongoing oversight of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.  The decision by U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow officially moves all future quarterly meetings to a special proceedings courtroom at the Sandra Day O’Connor Courthouse in […]

John Galgiani has been waiting for this call. The 79-year-old physician is sitting on a chair in a side office at a health clinic in Phoenix, long legs crammed under the table in front of him, hands folded at his stomach, when his cell phone rings. “There’s my guy,” he says.

The Trump administration is offering nine prominent U.S. universities preferential access to federal funds if they pledge to take a series of steps that align with the Republican administration’s goal...

Pima County agreed to keep Amazon Web Services’ role in Project Blue secret for five years, according to a non-disclosure agreement obtained by Arizona Luminaria. The deal, signed in 2023, sheds new l...

Southern Arizona has gone without representation in Congress for 201 days, and it seems residents will have to wait a little longer. After being elected last week to represent Arizona’s District 7 in Congress, Adelita Grijalva has yet to be sworn in. “I came to the Capitol today, ready to be sworn in and get […]

NOGALES, Sonora — Francisco Trujillo ran through the anatomy of a prosthetic using a young man’s discarded leg. A sawed-off plastic jug served as the socket — the part connecting the prosthesis to the body — fastening a partial-metal crutch to a shoe. Trujillo set down the make-shift prosthetic leg along the wall, where other […]

Before becoming Pima Community College’s new provost and executive vice chancellor this week, Ian Roark was a music teacher who later taught social studies — a winding path that shaped his vision for education. Roark has been at Pima for almost 11 years. We caught up with him just after his official appointment. The 47-year-old […]

Arizona Luminaria has been named Community News Outlet of the Year by the Arizona Press Club, capping a banner year of recognition that also includes awards for political reporting excellence and jour...

Tucson City Council agreed to explore a new city ordinance criminalizing public drug use during Tuesday’s study session. Ward 4 councilmember Nikki Lee introduced the item and led the discussion. Lee ...

Live results and updates from Arizona's Congressional District 7 special election. Adelita Grijalva (D) beat Daniel Butierez (R) for Raúl Grijalva's former seat.

Live results and updates from Arizona's Congressional District 7 special election. Adelita Grijalva (D) vs Daniel Butierez (R) compete for Raúl Grijalva's former seat.

Live results and updates from Arizona's Congressional District 7 special election. Adelita Grijalva (D) vs Daniel Butierez (R) compete for Raúl Grijalva's former seat.

The single-largest source of federal funds for the Tucson Unified School District is under threat for next budget year as the clock winds down on passing a new federal budget. The federal budget deadl...

Data center developer Beale Infrastructure says it is moving forward with Project Blue, this time promising a greener, slimmer proposal that will use a new low-water air-cooling technology.  The compa...

Around the halls of Tucson High and in classes — every subject from calculus to P.E. —  Jerry Schuster’s former students remember one main thing: “You can call me Jerry after you graduate,” they recal...

Pima County Supervisors voted unanimously to extend the county’s contract with NaphCare, the private, for-profit provider of medical care in the Pima County jail Tuesday — but the deal includes a new ...

At Arizona Luminaria, we don’t do this work alone. Your feedback guides the stories we tell and the communities we serve. Last year, readers like you helped us expand coverage of housing, education, v...

Just a few feet off the corner of Sixth Street and Warren Avenue, a black pole with a solar panel and sleek oval black camera rises between two full desert holly bushes. On the oval camera is a small ...

A $10 million reduction in federal funds, plus little financial support from the state could lead to program cuts, fewer students and employees at Pima Community College, officials say. The frozen and...