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Posted Jul 1, 2022, 5:49 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
Pima County residents should stay safe and wear masks indoors in public for the July 4 weekend, the Health Department warned, as COVID cases and hospitalizations remain "high" in Maricopa and Pinal counties and "medium" closer to Tucson.... Read more»
Posted May 16, 2022, 5:34 am
Blake Farmer
/Nashville Public Radio
In April 2021, FEMA offered to reimburse funeral expenses for COVID victims - up to $9,000 - and though the federal government has paid more than $2 billion to cover funeral costs, fewer than half of eligible families have started applications.... Read more»
Posted Mar 10, 2022, 3:33 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The federal government will allocate more than $8.6 million to mitigate flash flooding in the Nogales area, U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva announced.
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Posted Mar 1, 2022, 8:06 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Over the last few months, Pima County spent around $1.3 million per month to shelter migrants released by Homeland Security officials, and the county faces a funding crunch as federal grants that helped cover theses expenses are held up in Congress.... Read more»
Posted Feb 25, 2022, 4:32 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
Local governments are wading into dicey political territory with potentially unpopular agenda items on water rate hikes, raises for elected leaders and payouts of unused COVID leave.... Read more»
Posted Feb 1, 2022, 3:23 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Wind and rain predicted for Wednesday will force Pima County officials to close the COVID-19 testing site at Pima Community College's West Campus for the day.... Read more»
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Posted Jan 31, 2022, 4:28 pm
Sara Edwards
/Cronkite News
Two COVID-19 testing sites funded by Federal Emergency Management Agency opened last week to mitigate the shortage of rapid testing in Pima County, a problem that’s especially acute for businesses and public schools. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 30, 2021, 1:09 pm
Ulysse Bex
/Cronkite News
Almost two years after the first case of COVID-19 was discovered in Arizona, new infections in the state have reached a “bizarre plateau,” rising from summertime lows in the hundreds to more than 3,000 new cases a day through the fall.... Read more»
Posted Dec 21, 2021, 9:25 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
President Biden will announce new actions to fight the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, measures that include dispatching 500 million at-home tests to Americans, creating new federal testing sites and deploying 1,000 service members to hospitals across the county. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 14, 2021, 10:11 am
Clay Jones
/Claytoonz
Fun fact: Rand Paul is a jerk. When Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul isn’t screaming lies and conspiracy theories at Dr. Anthony Fauci, he’s blocking disaster relief…at least to states that are not Kentucky. ... Read more»
Posted Oct 29, 2021, 12:22 pm
Cecelia Vieira
/FactCheck
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is deploying contracted medical workers to understaffed hospitals who are required to comply with COVID-19 vaccine mandates, despite false social media posts claiming the workers sent by FEMA are “exempt.”... Read more»
Posted Jul 23, 2021, 1:46 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Border Patrol agents encountered more than 660 people traveling in large groups in the desert southwest of Tucson in July, while the migrant shelter supported by Pima County is preparing to serve a dramatic increase in people in the coming weeks.... Read more»
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Posted Jun 30, 2021, 2:20 pm
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Gov. Doug Ducey was one of just three Western governors that the White House didn’t invite to a meeting on wildfires that the Biden administration convened, despite the particularly nasty fire season that Arizona is currently facing.... Read more»
Posted Jun 22, 2021, 7:18 pm
Jane Norman
/Arizona Mirror
President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he will host a meeting next week of Western governors, Cabinet members and Federal Emergency Management Agency officials "to prepare for heat, drought and wildfires in the West."... Read more»
Posted Jun 10, 2021, 7:25 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
Triple-digit afternoon heat means Pima County mobile COVID-19 vaccination sites will pause in the afternoons, with early morning and late evening shots available instead.... Read more»
Posted Jun 7, 2021, 7:12 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
Las vacunas ahora están disponible en las tres principales clínicas de salud del condado de Pima y ofrecen vacunas de lunas a viernes a partir del lunes con la expectiva de extender las horas más tarde en el mes. ... Read more»