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New specialty license plates put Arizona's lineup over 80

Dec 30, 2021 Most of the plate's extra cost goes to charity or a non-profit.

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.

Flagstaff hotel cancels pine cone drops due to virus threat

Dec 30, 2021 Close to 6,000 new cases of COVID-19 were reported Thursday in Arizona.

Arizona State Rep. Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren and her husband at her graduation at Stanford University.

Bill allows Indigenous students to wear cultural clothing at graduation

Dec 30, 2021 Advocates say after a year of protests over racial injustice, it's a meaningful change.

Autonomous trucker TuSimple logs first no-human road test

Dec 29, 2021 The self-driving truck cruised through southern Arizona.

Arizona reports 3,411 additional COVID cases, 27 more deaths

Dec 29, 2021 Virus related hospitalizations are down.

Planes stored at AMARG in Tucson. April 2021

The Boneyard spends 75 years adding to history books

Dec 29, 2021 The planes at AMARG are a history of U.S. air power.

A Centers for Disease Control illustration of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Arizona hospital official: Avoid New Year's gatherings

Dec 28, 2021 The state added nearly 2,000 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday.

Craig Bal teaches at a Pima County construction training program. He says his students start with knick knacks, like this wooden figure of Arizona. October 26th, 2021.

Construction industry struggling to hire amid demand for housing

Dec 28, 2021 The number of construction workers in Arizona took a big hit in the financial crisis and still had not fully recovered when the pandemic set in.

A sign warning drivers of high pedestrian traffic on West St. Mary's Road in Tucson on a late October afternoon.

Traffic fatalities in Arizona on track this year to surpass 2020

Dec 28, 2021 The number of people killed in automobile crashes around Arizona during 2021 could reach the highest level in over a decade.

Arizona stadium, home field for the University of Arizona Wildcats football team.

Update: Arizona Bowl canceled

Dec 27, 2021 Boise State pulled out of the game due to the number of players with COVID.

New Arizona COVID-19 cases over 7,600 due to holiday lag

Dec 27, 2021 Daily numbers will be high for the next few days as reporting catches up after Christmas break.

Whitset Pump House on the California side of Lake Havasu. Lake Havasu reservoir is formed by Parker Dam on the Colorado River, on the border between San Bernardino County, California and La Paz County, Arizona. The Whitsett Intake Pumping Plant is at the beginning of the Colorado River Aqueduct, a 242-mile aqueduct, which transports water from Lake Havasu to Lake Mathews in Riverside County.

Leading water experts explore the future of managing a shrinking water supply from the Colorado River

Dec 27, 2021 New report says the best water policies are borne out of a few driving factors.

NASA launched the James Webb Telescope on 12/25/2021. The University of Arizona designed the Near-Infrared Camera that the telescope will use.

Space telescope launched on daring quest to behold 1st stars

Dec 25, 2021 The University of Arizona designed one of the instruments on board.

Agencies step up enforcement on highway known for chases

Dec 25, 2021 The road is the main route between Phoenix and Las Vegas

Clouds and rainbow over Tucson during 2021 monsoon.

Arizona sees wet, windy weather with rain, snow

Dec 24, 2021 Holiday travel impacted by rain and snow

Arizona reports 3,808 new COVID-19 cases, another 72 deaths

Dec 24, 2021 More than 2,000 people are in the hospital with COVID-19.

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