Pima County is sponsoring a discount prescription card designed to provide families and individuals with significant savings on prescription drug costs.

After years of dispute over control of the Marana Wastewater Reclamation Facility, the Pima County Board of Supervisors is calling for an end to further litigation with the Town of Marana, recently extending two separate settlement offers.

With the high number of provisional and mail-in ballots last week, the state had more than 600,000 votes to count after the Nov. 6 General Election. In Pima County, election crews spent the last week going through nearly 80,000 ballots.

On Tuesday, Arizona voters will be voting on the primary candidates they want to see move on to the General Election, and based on early numbers, many residents have already spoken.

We are a society reliant on convenience, and judging by the increasing number of mail-in ballots being processed by election offices across the nation, voting is no exception.

Five candidates are competing to become the supervisor for District 1 in Pima County after current supervisor Ann Day steps down later this year.

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The first meeting of the five-member Pima County Redistricting Advisory Committee is set for May 26 at 9 a.m. It will take place in the Board of Supervisors’ hearing room on the first floor of the Pima County administration building, 130 W. Congress St.

Candidates for Marana Town Council offices agree the town must continue its legal and legislative battle to assume control of wastewater treatment services — and the valuable effluent that results — from Pima County. Their responses to wastewater litigation with the county, and legislation intended to force the county to negotiate, are compiled from two candidate forums, held on Jan. 26 at Heritage Highlands at Dove Mountain and on Feb. 3 at the Wheeler Taft Abbett, Sr., Branch Library.

Following Ventana Medical Systems' announcement to add as many as 500 jobs in Southern Arizona, state and local governments have made public their plans to provide incentives to the company.

Ventana Medical Systems Inc., the Oro Valley leader in cancer diagnostics, is investing $180 million over five years to expand its operations in Oro Valley's Innovation Park, adding up to 500 new jobs.

Pima County has changed its position on the future of its Tangerine Landfill, prompting strong response from Marana Town Manager Gilbert Davidson.

Officials from Cox Communications and the Pima County Board of Supervisors have been chosen to lead a public/private economic development partnership through Tucson Regional Economic Opportunities.

The Pima County Board of Supervisors passed a $1.431 billion budget for the 2010-'11 fiscal year that begins July 1.

Pima County officials last week set a spending limit of $1.43 billion for next fiscal year.

A proposed budget before the Pima County Board of Supervisors has received mixed reviews from those members who represent the Northwest.

Pima County Supervisors are asking the Town of Marana to slow down its consideration of a landfill proposed for ground between Silverbell and Avra Valley roads west of the town limits.

At the request of the Pima County Attorney’s office, the Arizona Attorney General has agreed to investigate possible improprieties in the awarding of contracts to run a Pima County sports complex.

An effort to recall Pima County Supervisor Sharon Bronson will be dropped, according to Allie Miller, the coordinator of the Recall Sharon Bronson Political Committee.

Albuquerque taught lessons about economic development, incentives

Pleas from Oro Valley residents for a larger reimbursement for the town library were shot down by the Pima County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.

You can't write about the late Lou Benson without telling the story of Tortolita. Louie would want it that way.

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If built, the $6 billion to $8 billion roadway would skirt some of the region’s most important environmental areas. Detractors say a proposed Interstate 10 bypass would fracture the landscape west of town, including the sensitive Ironwood Forest National Monument and Saguaro National Park West.

Vote totals for races and ballot questions of interest to Northwest readers