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  The Regional Transportation Authority is continuing its public engagement efforts with a series of open houses in December and January for the public to review a 20-year $2.46 billion plan for regional transportation improvements.

  Arizona’s recreational marijuana market showed signs of stabilization in October, with dispensaries selling $75.3 million in adult-use cannabis products, up from September’s $67.3 million, while the medical marijuana sector continued its long-term decline.

  Tucson's City Court, along with the Prosecutor's Office and Public Defender's Office, will be closed Friday.

  Tucson city workers may see a $1,000 one-time bonus in their paychecks this fiscal year but it's not necessarily good news. But it's not bad news, either.

  Arizonans who are seeking to purchase health insurance coverage via the Affordable Care Act must choose a policy by Sunday, Dec. 15, if they want coverage to begin on Jan. 1.

  Across the country, Native candidates fared well in the Nov. 5 general election with nearly 72 percent of the 176 Indigenous candidates seeking office having won their races, though Native candidates didn’t do as well in national races.

  The Colorado River Water Users Association concluded its three-day conference at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas on Friday with the needs and desires of Colorado River tribes and Mexico taking center stage.

  The Sun Stream Complex in western Maricopa County will soon generate enough power to supply over 200,000 homes, and the first phase has been transforming Arizona’s scalding sunlight into electricity for more than three years - but such projects may not be possible much longer.

The Downtown Parade of Lights winds through downtown Tucson this weekend with a slightly different route.

  President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Address to Congress: "Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."

  Brandon Judd, a retired Border Patrol agent and president of the National Border Patrol Union, will be nominated to become the U.S. ambassador to Chile, Donald Trump's transition team announced Thursday evening.

  Across the country, American and state flags will be flown at half-staff Saturday to mark the 83-year anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.