Tucson Local Media is excited to bring you the fifth annual Influential Health and Medical Awards to recognize the outstanding leaders in the medical field on Wednesday, June 12, at the Desert Diamond Casino & Hotel.

Every day, Dr. Sheldon Marks, founder of the International Center for Vasectomy Reversal, receives pictures of babies from his patients. The small mementos serve as confirmation of a successful career and business dedicated to a single task. 

LeAnn Richards put herself through college and had a dream of becoming a teacher. But when her in-laws (who owned two McDonald’s restaurants in Southern Arizona) decided to retire, she quit her new teaching job and decided to take the reins.

After months of neighborhood meetings and several modifications from the Oro Valley Town Council, a local landowner has received the green light to build 77 residential homes near North Oracle Road and West Pusch View Lane.

Early in the morning of Tuesday, May 28, the Arizona Legislature officially wrapped up its work, capping an extraordinary 135 days of legislating that produced some of the biggest policies in recent years. Most notably was the passage of the Drought Contingency Plan, completed against a dead…