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Arizona State Capitol building.

With 1864 abortion ban repealed, Arizona doctors don’t need emergency licenses in California and none have signed up

Jun 20, 2024 Arizona abortion providers and abortion rights advocates voiced appreciation for the neighborly gesture.
<a href="https://map22.epa.gov/cimc/superfundZoom&params=0900684&15" target="_blank" style="font-weight:700;margin-right:6px">VIEW THIS MAP FULLSCREEN IN A NEW WINDOW</a>The ten square-mile Tucson International Airport Area Superfund Site is depicted using orange diagonal lines. The site includes Tucson International Airport, Sections of the Tohono O'odham Nation (San Xavier District), Tucson and South Tucson residential areas, and Air Force Plant #44 Raytheon Missile Systems Company (AFP44). The site has contaminated groundwater and soil from former aircraft and electronics manufacturing and aircraft maintenance, fire drill trainings, and the leaking of chemicals from unlined landfills.

EPA Orders Air Force, AZ National Guard to address PFAS contamination at Tucson Superfund Site

Jun 19, 2024 Emergency directive aims to mitigate health threats from toxic chemicals in Tucson’s groundwater, pushing for immediate cleanup action and cost sharing.
City crews are preparing barricades to direct motorists away from flooded roads.

Tucson braces for potential monsoon storms

Jun 19, 2024 City crews are preparing barricades to direct motorists away from flooded roads.
Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs arrives to give the state of the state address at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023.

Arizona governor signs budget into law after fierce negotiations to make up a massive shortfall

Jun 19, 2024 The spending plan is the result of weeks of negotiations between the Democratic governor and Republican legislative leaders.
Tucson City Hall

Tucson special election for proposed sales tax canceled

Jun 18, 2024 The city's mayor and council unanimously moved to cancel the election during a Tuesday meeting.
Cochise County Supervisors Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby. November 28, 2023

Criminal charges against two Cochise County Supervisors stand

Jun 18, 2024 Maricopa Superior County Judge Geoffrey Fish denied their motions to dismiss and remand.
From Nogales, Arizona, a view of the city and its border wall with Nogales, Sonora.

Change in asylum rules creates influx of migrants in Sonora shelter

Jun 18, 2024 A migrant shelter in Nogales, Sonora, is having a large increase in migrants being returned to Mexico after crossing the border into Arizona, including many families and children.
White flowers are planted around the historic fountain in front of the Old Main building on the University of Arizona campus.

UA search committee finalizes evaluation criteria for its next president

Jun 17, 2024 Some of the criteria includes financial literacy and trust building skills.
The vaquita is a critically endangered porpoise that lives in the northern part of the Sea of Cortez. It is considered the smallest and most endangered cetacean in the world.

Even fewer critically endangered vaquitas sighted in Mexico this year

Jun 17, 2024 Researchers say only six to eight of the porpoises were sighted.
Strong Arm, a well-known saguaro cactus in the Tortolita Preserve near Marana, was estimated to be 150 to 200 years old and 40 feet tall when it toppled during an August storm. But the actual cause of death was Erwinia cacticida, a bacteria that causes saguaros to rot and ooze a thick, black liquid.

More than 70 million people in the US are under heat alerts

Jun 17, 2024 Officials again are warning residents to take precautions, go indoors and hydrate.
Monsoon clouds hover above a southern Arizona neighborhood.

UA Monsoon Madness returns for 2024

Jun 17, 2024 Hundreds are expected to enter the annual online contest to predict stormy weather.
A home for sale in the Sam Hughes neighborhood in Tucson, Arizona.

Report: Tucson-area housing market at low risk of downturn

Jun 17, 2024 The report ranked Pima County among the least vulnerable to price drops in the country.
A view of the dome atop the Arizona Capitol Museum at the State Capitol in Phoenix. January 2021.

Arizona lawmakers pass budget closing $1.4 billion deficit

Jun 16, 2024 The spending plan is the result of weeks of negotiations between Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and Republican legislative leaders.
Romaine lettuce grows in neat rows on a farm in Yuma, Arizona. About 80% of the nation's wintertime vegetables come from the area.

As farmers age and the number of farms shrinks, new growers struggle to get started in the agriculture industry

Jun 16, 2024 The average American farmer was 58 years old the last time the U.S. Department of Agriculture checked.
Trucks drive on SR-189, near Nogales, on March 10, 2022.

Arizona troopers warn Congress that lifting weight limit on trucks will make highways more dangerous

Jun 15, 2024 Backers say the idea would improve the supply chain.
Migrants re-enter Guatemala after getting deported from the United States. The number of Central Americans removed from the U.S. is going up.

At the border, Biden's plans for fast deportations collide with international politics

Jun 14, 2024 Most migrants being apprehended now are barred from applying for asylum, despite U.S. laws and international agreements that require it.

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