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More than one-third of households in Tucson are considered housing cost burdened.

UA professor maps Tucson's racist covenants

May 1, 2023 Professor Jason Jurjevich joined city employees Friday afternoon to discuss the project.
Clyde Martin's daughter test rides the 45-foot wood slide in April 2023.

Precision carpentry and fun combine for slides in Sierra Vista

May 1, 2023 A Sierra Vista man builds massive wooden slides.
An aerial view of the Molino 2 Fire on Catalina Highway in the Coronado National Forest. April 30, 2023

Fire on road to Mt. Lemmon

Apr 30, 2023 The fire closed the Catalina Highway.
The sun shines harshly behind a saguaro cactus.

The ice is broken: temps climb to 100

Apr 30, 2023 The last day of April was the first day in 2023 Tucson hit 100

Arizona’s veterinary medicine grads aid shortfall of vets in nation, state

Apr 30, 2023 Employment of veterinarians is projected to grow 19% from 2021 to 2031.

Arizona increase in drunken driving deaths among highest in nation in 2021

Apr 30, 2023 While Arizona was an outlier, it was not unique.
A car travels near a pothole on a Tucson-area street.

Arizona plans to sink more than $85 million into potholes, other repairs

Apr 29, 2023 The cold weather in northern Arizona and wet weather in lower elevations, plus heavy traffic on Arizona’s highways are a recipe for potholes.
One of the U.S. Border Patrol's integrated fixed towers built on a hill in Cochise County.

Map of border surveillance towers shows growing ‘virtual wall’ along US southern border

Apr 29, 2023 Arizona was an early adopter of surveillance towers when the CBP program was launched in the 2000s.
Astronaut Mark Kelly (right) photographed with his twin brother Scott, March 2011.

Mark Kelly set for Astronaut Hall of Fame honors

Apr 28, 2023 The Arizona senator will be recognized for his NASA career.
University associate professor and author, Tim Z. Hernandez, visits the headstone in Fresno where most of the 1948 airplane crash victims were buried.

Airplane Crash from 1948 is Revisited and Researched

Apr 28, 2023 A professor and author is trying to find the families of all 32 victims.
Mission medical officer Eiman Jahangir enters the Space Analog for the Moon and Mars as mission communications officer and accessibility officer Sheri Wells-Jensen walks up to the habitat at Biosphere 2 in north Tucson on Thursday, April 27, 2023. Jahangir is a two-time NASA astronaut candidate finalist.

Four-person crew sealed into pressurized habitat to learn about space living

Apr 28, 2023 The crew will be locked in for six days.
The Bighorn Fire burns on Sunday, June 7, 2020 near Oro Valley, Arizona.

The Buzz: A wet winter brings increased wildfire danger

Apr 28, 2023 Experts give a fire outlook and talk about recovery.
Supporters of the effort to recall Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby gather petitions to get the recall on the ballot. April 2023

Crosby recall efforts race to the finish line

Apr 28, 2023 Volunteers are hoping to get enough signatures to force a recall vote in Cochise County by the deadline next week.
A set of four tubes known as the "river outlet works" allows extra water to flow through the Glen Canyon Dam. The flows are designed to take advantage of extra wet years and help wildlife habitat downstream of the dam.

An extra pulse of water is flowing into Grand Canyon after a wet winter

Apr 27, 2023 This experiment is the first since 2018 and comes in response to forecasts for an above-average spring snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains.
Bob Nilson, the Tourism Supervisor at the Benson Visitor’s Center, shows off the train simulator, which is a fan favorite at the visitor's center.

Benson Visitor Center certified as an Autism Center

Apr 27, 2023 The location is the first in Cochise County.
A woman and child embrace along the border in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora where migrants seeking asylum formed an encampment along the sidewalk as they waited to make formal requests with U.S. Customs officers at the San Luis Port of Entry in December 2018.

Sinema, Southern Arizona mayors and county officials discuss impact of immigration on border communities.

Apr 26, 2023 The U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee comes weeks before Title 42 expires.

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