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  An inmate punched multiple times by a corrections officer at the Pima County jail in August has filed a lawsuit against Sheriff Chris Nanos and the five officers involved.

  Thomas Steres, an inmate in Arizona, founded the Linguistic Legacies Initiative to teach endangered languages such as Welsh, Nahuatl and Guosa while incarcerated in a state prison in Buckeye, Ariz.

  City of Tucson officials filed a lawsuit against the federal government, arguing Davis-Monthan Air Force Base has "taken inadequate action" to stop PFAS "forever chemicals" from contaminating Tucson's water.

  Thomas Steres, an inmate in Arizona, founded the Linguistic Legacies Initiative to teach endangered languages such as Welsh, Nahuatl and Guosa while incarcerated in a state prison in Buckeye, Ariz.

  The ability of trans kids in Arizona to be who they are at school is once again under attack, as Republican lawmakers, buoyed by November’s electoral wins, revive bills restricting preferred pronouns and prohibiting the use of school facilities based on gender identity.

  With a second Trump administration on the horizon, the union representing U.S. immigration judges is engaged in two separate legal fights this week.

  The Pima County Democratic Party elected new leadership last weekend. Eric Robbins will continue to chair the local political organization.

  Several advocacy groups on Wednesday called on Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs to finish and release an investigation into the state’s death penalty practices after she abruptly fired the commissioner who was hired to examine how the corrections department carried out executions.

  President-elect Donald Trump announced that he had picked Kari Lake, a former newscaster who lost two statewide races in Arizona in 2022 and 2024, to helm of the taxpayer-funded Voice of America.

  On Wednesday, the day after a federal judge in Oregon and a state judge in Washington blocked a merger between two supermarket giants, Albertsons canceled the $24.6 billion merger agreement and sued Kroger.

What's going on in Tucson, Arizona: Fourth Avenue Street Fair, Downtown Parade of Lights, Winterhaven and lots more holiday festivities in Tucson, Marana and Oro Valley.

  Gov. Katie Hobbs will pick Arizona’s newest Supreme Court justice from five nominees — including two judges and three attorneys — recommended to her by a judicial screening panel.