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Jan. 6 panel wants answers from GOP's Biggs

May 2, 2022 The panel is asking for testimony about their involvement in meetings at the White House, conversations with Trump as well as the planning of rallies on Jan. 6, 2021.

Kathy Short in the Worlds of Words library at UA's Department of Education.

International exhibition focuses on children's pandemic self-portraits

May 2, 2022 Tucson is the show's first stop outside of Germany.

Old Main on the campus of the University of Arizona.

Universities partnering to end addiction

Apr 29, 2022 The University of Arizona and Oklahoma State University are working together to combat pain and addiction.

The shoes of children as they sit in a row inside a kindergarten classroom.

Childhood vaccination rate continues to decline in Arizona

Apr 29, 2022 The share of kindergarten students with personal belief exemptions rose to 6.6% this school year, up from 5.4% in the 2019-2020 school year.

Sahuarita to partner with growing water management company

Apr 28, 2022 The mayor and council decided against using eminent domain to block the company from acquiring infrastructure in town.

Migrants march toward the Deconcini Port of Entry in Nogales, Sonora in a demonstration asking President Joe Biden to restore the U.S. asylum process.

Judge halts preparations for end of US asylum limits

Apr 27, 2022 The Biden administration plans to end the policy on May 23.

Organic marijuana being grown at an Arizona farm for processing into medical marijuana.

Cannabis courses offered by University of Arizona

Apr 27, 2022 Voters made the recreational marijuana business legal, but they didn't make it easy.

New structures going up in Tucson, July 2018.

Tucson brings in few affordable housing programs through federal tax credits

Apr 27, 2022 Officials say the city is at a disadvantage for the competitive program.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey at an April 2 town hall on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ducey signs bills limiting school mask, vaccination rules

Apr 26, 2022 The Republican governor signed the two bills on Monday.

OSIRIS-REx on its return journey to Earth.

NASA to extend OSIRIS-REx spacecraft for a mission to a second asteroid

Apr 25, 2022 The University of Arizona-led mission will rendezvous with the Asteroid Apophis in 2029

A group of migrants and Border Patrol agents along the border fence in Yuma County. June 2021.

Federal judge keeps Title 42 in place

Apr 25, 2022 A suit brought by Arizona and other states keep the policy in effect.

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez was a featured speaker at the Democratic National Convention this summer.

Navajo President Jonathan Nez says he'll seek reelection

Apr 25, 2022 The primary election is in August.

Apollo 16 lunar exploration, April 1972.

Tucson-based scientists giving moon rocks a second look

Apr 25, 2022 NASA's Apollo 16 crew originally collected the samples 50 years ago.

Sonoran Governor Alfonso Durazo at an event in Guaymas announcing the project

$2.1 billion natural gas facility planned in Guaymas, Sonora

Apr 25, 2022 The $2.1 billion natural gas liquefaction plant will be built on roughly 250 acres of state-owned land.

A detention facility in McAllen, Texas, June 2018.

Report documents harm asylum seekers face in detention facilities

Apr 23, 2022 Tens of thousands of asylum seekers have faced prolonged detention in the U.S. in the past year, according to the report.

Water levels in Lake Powell are dipping dangerously close to "dead pool," at which point it becomes impossible to generate hydropower at the Glen Canyon dam. Experts think the reservoir could reach those levels within a year.

Colorado River basin give approval to proposed water cutbacks

Apr 22, 2022 The plan would cut flows to Arizona, Nevada and California by 480,000 acre-feet, enough water to supply more than half a million homes for a year.

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