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A basketball hoop is silhouetted against the sunset.

Here are some numbers that will help you get your March Madness fix for the Sweet 16

Mar 27, 2024 Notable facts and stats about each team in the round of sixteen.
Children peer through the border fence in Nogales, Sonora during a march led by migrants on April 30, 2021 who wanted to call attention to immigration policies in the United States that have prevented them from entering the country while they seek political asylum.

Number of families and children in Border Patrol's Tucson Sector grows

Mar 27, 2024 New federal data shows that the number of migrants apprehended by Border Patrol last month grew, including the number of families and children.
People wait for assistance at a shelter that's part of the Casa Alitas program on March 1, 2024.

Pima County to continue migrant services

Mar 26, 2024 County will avoid street releases at the end of the week, anticipating federal funding from the $650 million, in the border security funding bill, for shelter and services to asylum seekers.
Gethsemani Baptist Church in San Luis, Ariz.

An Arizona church known for feeding migrants now says the city is blocking its work

Mar 26, 2024 In a recent lawsuit, Jose Manuel Castro, pastor of the Gethsemani Baptist Church, says friction with the city of San Luis has forced the church to cancel multiple events.
The University of Arizona men's basketball team battles against USC in their Pac-12 Tournament game.

Pac-12's remaining schools finalize financial agreement with 10 departing members

Mar 25, 2024 The departing schools will have $5 million withheld during the 2024 fiscal year for a total of $50 million under the deal announced Monday.
Border officials in Nogales seized more than a dozen assault rifles, a record for the year, and nearly 10,000 rounds of AK-style ammunition during the second week in June. The weapons and ammunition were being smuggled into Mexico.

Judge allows Mexico’s case against Arizona gun dealers to proceed

Mar 25, 2024 A federal judge in Tucson ruled Monday that Mexico’s case against five Arizona gun dealers is allowed to proceed. The gun dealers sought to have the entire case thrown out.
A mail-in ballot from the 2023 Pima County Election.

Ohio man gets 2.5 years in prison for death threats made in 2022 to Arizona’s top election official

Mar 25, 2024 The judge read the profanity-laden threats aloud in court.
Arizona guard Caleb Love (2) brings the ball up court while guarded by Dayton guard Enoch Cheeks (6) during the first half of a second-round college basketball game in the NCAA Tournament in Salt Lake City, Saturday, March 23, 2024.

Caleb Love scores 19, leads Arizona past Dayton 78-68

Mar 23, 2024 Wildcats earn their second trip to the Sweet 16 in 3 seasons.

Arizona expects to be back at the center of election attacks

Mar 23, 2024 Top officials are going on the offense.
Gabrielle Cardenas, Brian Eller, and Bishop Edward Weisenburger sit on a panel discussion moderated by Ellen Fisher, on Monday, March 18, at the St. Thomas More Newman Center in Tucson, Ariz. Fisher (left) is the assistant director of the Catholic University of America in Tucson.

Bishop Weisenburger and Catholic leaders champion environmental justice in panel discussion

Mar 23, 2024 Uniting faith and environmental stewardship to address the moral imperative of climate change.
George Alan Kelly during opening statements, on March 22, 2024, at trial where he's being charged with second degree murder and aggravated assault.

Attorneys make opening statements in case of rancher accused of killing migrant

Mar 22, 2024 Friday was opening arguments in the trial of George Alan Kelly, the 75-year-old rancher being charged in the shooting death of a Mexican citizen, who prosecutors say was on Kelly’s property while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border undocumented.
Immigrants take their official oath of citizenship in front of Tucson Magistrate Michael Ambri on Friday, March 22, 2024.

Tucson officially honors 23 new citizens at a TUSD middle school

Mar 22, 2024 The naturalization of an all female group of immigrants was in celebration of Women’s History Month.
The Arizona state Capitol on March 3, 2020.

AZ House Committee rejects sober living homes regulation bill despite Senate support

Mar 22, 2024 The bill passed the Arizona Senate unanimously.
The Buzz (and the Davis Monthan Air Force Base) says goodbye to the A-10 warthog.

The Buzz: Bidding farewell to the A-10

Mar 22, 2024 As the longtime Air Force planes move from Davis Monthan to the Boneyard, we look at their legacy.
A graph showing the drop in job openings from 4.9% in December 2023 to 4.3% in late January 2024.

February employment statistics show hiring slowdown

Mar 21, 2024 The Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity have released February’s employment report.
One of the pits at the Morenci Mine in eastern Arizona, which has one one of the largest copper reserves in the United States.

Federal government allocates $475 million for clean energy projects on mine lands nationwide

Mar 21, 2024 The Morenci and Safford copper mines will recieve some of the funding.

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