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The Pima County Board of Supervisors meets at the County Administration Building in downtown Tucson.

Pima County board approves contract to buy body cams for sheriff's deputies

Sep 21, 2021 The contract approved by the board of supervisors with Axon will cost $26 million over 10 years and include new Tasers as well as cameras.
The so-called bathtub ring in Lake Mead.

Water agencies resolve Colorado River dispute

Sep 20, 2021 Dispute in California once threatened to derail a multi-state agreement to protect the Colorado River.
Timber Sale Administrator John Magura, Williams Ranger District, inspects invasive Mistletoe.

Forest Service plan to extend forest maintenance program is put on hold

Sep 19, 2021 Lawmakers demanded the agency reverse course, saying the decision is “particularly dangerous” at a time when “wildfire seasons gets longer each year.”
The dome atop the Arizona Capitol Museum at the State Capitol in Phoenix. January 2021.

Campaigns to repeal new state tax, election laws face Sept. 28 deadline

Sep 18, 2021 Canvassers are making a final push to get more than 118,000 signatures.
File image of a construction worker in Tucson.

Arizona close to recovering number of jobs lost during pandemic

Sep 18, 2021 Economist says it should catch up this month or next month.
Arizona History Museum Tucson

Three Tucson museums open for free Saturday

Sep 17, 2021 They are taking part in Smithsonian Magazine's Free Museum Day.
A stretch of border fencing east of Douglas constructed as part of President Trump's initiative to erect a taller wall along the southern border. November 2020.

Rights groups advocate for 'climate-focused' approach to quell deaths at the border

Sep 17, 2021 More than 160 sets of human remains have been recovered from the Arizona desert so far this year
A sign for missile-maker Raytheon.

Raytheon requires employees to get COVID-19 vaccine

Sep 17, 2021 Employees are required to be fully vaccinated by Jan. 1
An unemployment insurance claims office.

Few Arizonans receiving return-to-work bonuses

Sep 17, 2021 Only about 0.14% of the money has made it to the pockets of Arizonans returning to work.
Joel talking with Sen Umeda, a lawyer volunteering with Arizona NORML, during an expungement clinic for low-level marijuana offenses July 31, 2021.

After recreational legalization, Arizona slowly begins to expunge marijuana offenses

Sep 17, 2021 Sixty-nine petitions for expungement had been filed within Pima County as of Tuesday. Advocates estimate hundreds of thousands of people could qualify statewide.
File image of a cliffside at Lake Mead.

Drought persists in Southwest despite summer rains

Sep 17, 2021 Forecasters predict hotter than normal temperatures and lower than normal snow and rain through the end of the year.
File image of a Border Patrol vehicle on patrol along the Arizona-Mexico border.

Judge orders government to stop expelling families under Trump-era border policy

Sep 16, 2021 Biden administration has continued to use Title 42 to send migrants back to Mexico almost immediately after apprehension.
The historic Paul Laurence Dunbar School in Tucson is among the buildings that could be refurbished with robotic technology.

University of Arizona researchers pioneering new method of saving old structures

Sep 16, 2021 Historic buildings could get new life thanks to robotics.
The Arizona Senate's contractors count ballots from Maricopa County inside the Veterans Memorial Coliseum during May 2021.

Lawyer: Arizona Senate's 2020 election review out next week

Sep 16, 2021 Comments came during hearing on lawsuit over records from Senate's election review.
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 2,855 new COVID-19 cases, 27 new deaths

Sep 16, 2021 Pima County reports 56.7% of local residents are fully vaccinated.
The entrance to the U.S. Census Bureau's office in Tucson.

Pinal County officials consider challenging census results

Sep 15, 2021 County's population was smaller than expected, officials say

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