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8-year-old boy fatally shot with an high powered air rifle in St. David

Dec 20, 2023 The child died at Benson Hospital early Monday evening
The Arizona Capitol Museum building at the State Capitol in Phoenix.

Arizona lawmaker Athena Salman resigning at year's end, says she will join an abortion rights group

Dec 20, 2023 Salman will become the director of Arizona campaigns for the state chapter of Reproductive Freedom For All.
U.S. Representative Juan Ciscomani (right) talks with Benson Mayor Joe Konrad (left) ahead of the round table discussion hosted by the Sierra Vista Area Chamber of Commerce. December 19, 2023.

Ciscomani meets with city and county officials, discuss economic issues surrounding U.S.-Mexico border

Dec 20, 2023 The Congressman criticized the Biden Administration's decision to temporarily close the Lukeville Port of Entry.

Arizona man arrested for allegedly making online threats against federal agents and employees

Dec 20, 2023 Prosecutors say he allegedly threatened a federal judge, FBI agents and elected officials between May 2021 and last month.
The seal of Cochise County.

Cochise County faces a shortage of poll workers ahead of Presidental Preference Election in March

Dec 20, 2023 The county elections director predicts the county will need up to 250 poll workers for the March election
A Pima County correctional officer glances inside a cell at the county jail.

Grassroots jail report firmly opposes potential new Pima County Jail

Dec 19, 2023 The report comes two days before the County's Blue Ribbon Commission is expected to release their initial findings.
Interim Pima County Supervisor Sylvia Lee.

Sylvia Lee replaces Sharon Bronson on Pima County Board of Supervisors

Dec 19, 2023 Former PCC board member will not run in 2024.
Three U.S. residents were shot at and one was killed in the early morning hours of Dec. 16, 2023 about halfway between Altar and Santa Ana in Sonora, Mexico.

Three U.S. residents shot at on Sonoran highway

Dec 19, 2023 Three US residents traveling in Mexico on one of the alternate routes to Rocky Point were shot on Saturday, and one was killed. The shooting happened on Highway 2 in Sonora.
Participants in the annual SV Glow Ride cruising down Tacoma St. in Sierra Vista. December 16, 2023.

Sierra Vista Glow Ride brings holiday lights and cheer to Sierra Vista's neighborhoods

Dec 19, 2023 The event and charity has raised more than $26,000 dollars last year
Border Patrol process hundreds of migrants on Dec. 5, 2023. Many are from African countries — Senegal, Guinea and Mauritania — and a smaller number are from India and Central and South America. Many say they came through a cut in the border wall.

It's not clear what National Guard will do on the border

Dec 19, 2023 Following Governor Katie Hobbs' executive order to deploy National Guard members to the border, Arizona officials are still hashing out what that will look like.
A view of newly-constructed border fencing in Sasabe. June 2021.

Dozens of pets left in border town wracked with cartel violence

Dec 16, 2023 When the majority of Sasabe, Sonora, fled due to cartel violence, people had no choice but to leave their pets behind. Volunteers work to get food to the animals and the few families left behind.
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs announced that Cochise County will be receiving $41 million dollars from the state to enhance border security during a press conference at Cochise College's Sierra Vista campus Wednesday. July 19, 2023.

Hobbs sends National Guard to the border

Dec 16, 2023 Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed an executive order Friday to send up to 243 service members to help with border enforcement measures.
A Pima County correctional officer glances inside a cell at the county jail.

Blue Ribbon Commission asking for public feedback before releasing jail report

Dec 16, 2023 The commission will release a final recommendation on whether the county should build a new $400 million jail early next year.
The entrance of the South32 Hermosa mine site, a critical minerals project that looks to source manganese and zinc.

New project developments underway for South32 Hermosa project

Dec 16, 2023 Mining company addresses community health, workforce development and transparency in Hermosa critical minerals project

The Buzz: Arizona navigates legal uncertainty with two conflicting abortion bans

Dec 16, 2023 Arizona contends with a legal tangle over two conflicting abortion laws, leaving providers and patients in uncertainty.
Deputy Chief John McMahon, a use-of-force and tactical-review expert from the Los Angeles Police Department, reviews 2022 body camera footage from the death of Wade Welch in the Pima County Jail on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023.

County will not prosecute corrections officers involved in death of jail inmate Wade Welch

Dec 14, 2023 An independent investigation found the officers’ actions were within the law of restraining an inmate.

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