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Housing units going in near First and Fort Lowell in Tucson, July 2018.

City invites non-profits and businesses to apply for COVID-19 relief program grants

Dec 15, 2021 The money will go towards affordable housing, workforce development and other projects.

Vials of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in Tucson. January 2021.

Surcharge for unvaccinated Pima County employees challenged

Dec 15, 2021 A law enforcement union has filed a lawsuit challenging a $45 health insurance surcharge on Pima County employees who haven’t received the coronavirus vaccine.

A Pima County correctional officer glances inside a cell at the county jail.

Pima County Attorney's Office will not prosecute minor drug possession cases

Dec 15, 2021 Policy from start of the pandemic is revived as vaccination rate levels off and COVID cases spread inside the jail

Caution over the coronavirus is expected to last for a while.

COVID-19 creating another holiday of concern

Dec 14, 2021 Omicron variant and vaccination worries are making gatherings difficult again.

A sign outside the east entrance to Banner University Medicine directing visitors and patients to the emergency room.

Banner says Tucson hospital pushed to capacity

Dec 14, 2021 "If the forecasted trend continues, we will soon be unable to meet the health care demands of Arizonans," chief clinical officer warns.

The west facade of United States Supreme Court Building at dusk in Washington, D.C., USA. From October 2011.

Justices asked to let Arizona enforce ban on some abortions

Dec 14, 2021 The request from Attorney General Mark Brnovich comes as the high court is weighing rolling back abortion rights nationwide.

Surge of federal funds planned to expand broadband access across Arizona

Dec 14, 2021 Most of the money will go to Arizona's rural counties.

Researcher: More could be done to protect farmworkers from COVID-19

Dec 13, 2021 For the study, more than 30 farm workers in Sonora and Baja California were interviewed from mid- to late-2020.

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 reports 2,391 new COVID-19 cases but no deaths

Dec 13, 2021 Hospitals are more crowded because of large numbers of patients being treated for non-virus-related reasons.

Aeration tanks at the blue plains sewage treatment plant on the Anacostia River. April 1973.

Sewage crisis hits Mexico beach community

Dec 13, 2021 Sonora's governor promises aid

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

Yuma mayor: US responding to border, emergency easing

Dec 12, 2021 Asylum seekers picked up sooner in Yuma.

Bill to extend deadline for tribal use of CARES Act funds has passed the House

Dec 11, 2021 The date proposed in the bill moves the deadline to use CARES Act funds from the end of 2021 to December 2022.

Jessica Wittner (L) and Christina Birch are part of NASA's newest astronaut trainee class.

New astronaut list includes trainees with UA ties

Dec 11, 2021 They could be in line for upcoming missions to the ISS and maybe the moon.

Arizona reports 3,775 additional COVID cases, 74 more deaths

Dec 11, 2021 Hospitalizations remain at near peak level.

These endangered jaguars are part of a breeding population located near in Sonora, Mexico .

Wildlife of Southern Arizona

Dec 10, 2021 This week The Buzz talks with experts studying bats, Gila Topminnows and jaguars, and others who focus on how animals move from place-to-place.

The next ride for the UA-developed spectropolarimeter could be aboard a small CubeSat satellite in Earth orbit.

UA doctoral student's satellite gathering upper atmosphere data for climate forecasters

Dec 10, 2021 The self-designed research package went aloft on a high-altitude balloon in August.

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