TUCSON, Arizona, Aug. 17 -- Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: Arizona senior Senator Kyrsten Sinema visited the University of Arizona Cancer Center to tour the campus and hold a roundtable with the center's leadership and researchers. Sinema's visit follows her success in bringing together the entire bipartisan Arizona congressional delegation in a letter of support for the Cancer Center, securing renewal of its designation as a National Cancer Institute (NCI) C  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Aug. 17 (TNSfund) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: The University of Arizona has received a five-year, $500,000 matching grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to establish a new center to support economic growth in tribal communities in Arizona. Native FORGE will provide and facilitate high-quality entrepreneurship development and support services to underserved communities in Tucson and the 22 federally recognized Native Americ  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Aug. 17 -- Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona, issued the following news release and letter: The Federal Transit Administration awarded the City of Tucson a $12,112,400.00 grant to purchase new zero-emission buses for the city's Sun Tran public transportation system as well as supporting equipment. In May 2022, Rep. Grijalva wrote a letter in support of the grant to the FTA, highlighting the City of Tucson's efforts to modernize the public transportation fleet. "The transition to   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, issued the following news release and letter on Aug. 16, 2022: After working with Arizona water leaders as negotiations between Colorado River basin states have stalled, Senator Kelly wrote Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland pressing for the department to lay out options to implement drought mitigation measures in order to protect Arizona water resources and the Colorado River system. "Arizona has already reduced its consumption of Colorado  more