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Allie Young, the founder of Protect the Sacred, leads voters to the polls within the Navajo Nation on Election Day 2020.

A survey for and by Indigenous peoples is asking for Native Americans to share their political priorities

Jan 19, 2022 The deadline for the Indigenous Futures Survey is March 1.

Pima County COVID-19 testing at the Kino Events Center, July 13.

Pima County adds testing site to meet surge

Jan 18, 2022 Board of supervisors also okays 5-year test supply.

A large fishing boat in the Sea of Cortez.

U.S. puts restrictions on Mexican boats over illegal fishing

Jan 18, 2022 Environmental groups have applauded the move, calling it a “clear message” to Mexican leaders that they must improve enforcement of fishing practices.

Better understanding the motivations of top-dollar donors.

Here's how much money candidates for governor have raised and spent so far

Jan 17, 2022 Leading candidates spent more than $5 million before 2022 even began.

Items scattered about at a homeless encampment near Golf Links Road in Tucson.

Tucson prepares to move homeless into newly purchased hotel

Jan 17, 2022 The hotel was bought with federal Cares Act money

Since the year 2000, the Pima County Medical Examiner has received nearly 4,000 sets of human remains from people who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Arizona. Here, a cross marking the place where a man in his 30s died in 2009 lays a few hundred yards from one of the water stations the nonprofit Humane Borders sets out for migrants crossing the desert.

Arizona data shows another deadly year for migrants along the border

Jan 16, 2022 More than 220 sets of remains were recovered in counties around the state last year, according to a count by the Arizona advocacy group Humane Borders.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey speaks to members of the media Oct. 4, 2017 on the University of Arizona campus.

Gov. Ducey proposes $14.25 billion state budget

Jan 14, 2022 Plan calls for earned income tax credit and socking an additional $425 million in the state's rain day fund.

File image of a voting sign outside of a polling place in Tucson.

Pima County attorney closes investigation of 151 voters who cast multiple ballots

Jan 14, 2022 Investigation revealed ‘genuine confusion,’ not ‘conspiratorial acts,’ county attorney says.

Children at school during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Treasury: Arizona risks relief funds over anti-mandate rules

Jan 14, 2022 At issue are two state programs that are meant to help schools and students but that direct funding away from jurisdictions with mask requirements.

COVID testing site near the University of Arizona student union on Dec. 14, 2022.

University of Arizona gives students money for COVID-19 testing, vaccinations

Jan 14, 2022 Organizers of the Star Rewards Program say the effort has led to an increase in testing and vaccine document uploads.

Saguaro National Park

Getting outdoors in the Arizona winter

Jan 14, 2022 This week, The Buzz heads outside with visitors and locals alike.

St. Joseph's Hospital in Tucson.

Tucson nurses call for hospitals to do more to fix staffing shortages

Jan 13, 2022 A nurses' union held a rally Thursday to call for more competitive salaries and bonuses.

Interfaith Community Services' new mobile food bank.

New mobile food bank plies Tucson neighborhoods

Jan 13, 2022 The new refrigerated truck brings directly to the neighborhoods that need it most.

John Farley, director of fire test operations at the Naval Research Laboratory, tests the effectiveness of aqueous film-forming foam by spraying it on a gasoline fire. The test took place at the laboratory in Chesapeake Beach, Md. Oct. 25, 2019.

PFAS water pollution pilot project opens in Tucson

Jan 13, 2022 State funded project is designed to combat ground water pollution north of Air Force base.

This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S.

Arizona passes grim pandemic milestone with 25,000 deaths

Jan 13, 2022 The state reported 18,573 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday.

This photo distributed by NextEra Energy Resources shows the 100-megwatt Borderlands Wind Project, which entered service in late 2021. Its 34 turbines will provide enough energy for Tucson Electric Power to supply 26,000 average homes.

TEP brings new wind farm online

Jan 12, 2022 Utility says it can now power 260,000 homes with renewables.

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