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The cost to hold a Charlie Kirk memorial at a state-owned stadium while keeping safe mourners, the president and other top officials is unknown. Community members continue to push back on potential school closures in the Kyrene School District. Pima County health officials will now offer COVID vaccines at county clinics. Plus the latest business, metro Phoenix, and Fronteras Desk news.

Water officials in Tucson say the city has started receiving settlement funds from a class action lawsuit against major manufacturers of a firefighting foam that contains PFAS. The Arizona Supreme Court has rejected a bid by state schools chief Tom Horne to keep one of its justices from deciding whether he can sue schools over English instruction. Plus, the latest Tiny Desert Concert.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne are in a dispute over the management of school voucher funds. Federal tax credits for electric vehicles or home energy efficiency upgrades are set to expire soon and state officials are urging Arizonans to take advantage while they still can. Plus from KJZZ's The Show, much like certain songs and movies come to define the zeitgeist every summer, so too do colors.

An ongoing controversy swirling around the state’s school voucher program has reignited an internal feud in the Arizona Republican Party, leading two GOP officials to call on party Chairwoman Gina Swoboda to resign. One Native American tribe is trying to give the Colorado River the same legal rights as a person. Plus, the latest Soapbox from KJZZ's The Show.

Local leaders have voted to block a massive data center proposed for a 290-acre stretch of land southeast of downtown Tucson. Law enforcement is investigating the parent teacher network at a charter school in Queen Creek. Plus, the latest Tiny Desert Concert.

Local leaders in Tucson have voted not to allow a proposed data center with ties to Amazon known as Project Blue to move forward. The Arizona Department of Water Resources was slapped with a lawsuit this week by an environmental group, the Center for Biological Diversity. Plus, Americans are desperate to get more sleep. But are they taking it too seriously?

The Dragon Bravo Fire has burned over 111,000 acres and is threatening the Kaibab Lodge. The Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans is warning that hundreds of billions of dollars will be cut from Medicaid and Medicare over the next 10 years. Plus, from KJZZ’s original production The Show, a conversation with a specialist about how Maricopa County became an HIV hotspot, and how funding cuts will make it worse.

The Department of Interior is transferring public land along the Arizona-Mexico border to the U.S. military. The so-called “Epstein files” have become a divisive issue for Republicans in Arizona’s congressional delegation. Plus, from KJZZ’s original production The Show, a conversation with local researchers who are working on a faster way to diagnose Valley fever.

Though former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema isn’t running for public office, she continues to use hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds to pay for plane tickets, hotels and meals. A new sports bar in Phoenix's Melrose District prioritizes women's sports. Plus, from KJZZ’s original production The Show, Arizona wants to boost water supplies but is cutting funding.