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Gov. Doug Ducey delivers the annual State of the State address online due to COVID-19. Jan. 11, 2021

Gov. Ducey to attend Biden inauguration

Jan 14, 2021 Governor calls president-elect 'a good man who wants to serve his country.'
Screenshot of Wendsler Nosie Sr., founder of Apache Stronghold, in a call-to-action video published the week the Jan. 15 U.S. Forest Service environmental impact statement was due to be published.

Apache Stronghold files temporary restraining order and lien to stop transfer of Oak Flat

Jan 14, 2021 The nonprofit argued in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that Western Apache own the religious site.
Dr. Christian Bime, medical director of the ICU at Banner - UMC Tucson, receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 17, 2020.

Pima County readies COVID-19 vaccine expansion

Jan 13, 2021 The county is preparing four additional vaccine sites.
Downtown Tucson, Oct. 23, 2019.

News roundup: AZ hospitals consider triage, land swap of Oak Flat approaches

Jan 13, 2021 Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Jan. 13.
Clinical officials of five Arizona Health care organizations conduct a virtual news conference on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic January 13, 2021 in Phoenix. Pictured are (left to right) Dr. Marjorie Bessel, Chief Clinical Officer, Banner Health; Dr. Alyssa Chapital, Hospital Medical Director, Mayo Clinic; Dr. Michael White, Executive Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer, Valleywise Health; Dr. Keith Frey, Chief Medical Officer - Arizona Division, Dignity Health; and Dr. Stephanie Jackson, Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Value Officer, HonorHealth.

Hospital Officials push for mask mandate, remote learning.

Jan 13, 2021 Five clinical officials push back against Ducey's approach.
A handout image from Banner Health shows a health care worker in one of the hospital's COVID-19 units.

Possibility of COVID-19 triage care looms over Arizona hospitals

Jan 13, 2021 Physicians believe at least 1 in 10 people in Arizona is infected with the virus

Arizona redistricting commission to hold its first meeting

Jan 13, 2021 Swearing in will take place tomorrow
A Maricopa County voter turns in an early ballot on Oct. 26, 2020.

Judge: Arizona Senate, Maricopa County need to settle fight over election data

Jan 13, 2021 GOP-led senate had asked for the court to compel compliance from the county
Oak Flat, east of Superior, Arizona. A company proposes to build one of the world's largest underground copper mines at this location.

Trump administration faces lawsuit to stop land transfer of Indigenous religious site to mining company

Jan 13, 2021 The lawsuit says the destruction of Oak Flat violates the Apaches' right to religious freedom.
People are urged to take a flu shot and the anti-COVID vaccine.

Flu and COVID running together in 2021

Jan 13, 2021 Doctors say the good news is flu cases are down sharply.
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 5,269 additional COVID-19 cases, 191 deaths

Jan 13, 2021 Arizona had the worst state COVID-19 diagnosis rate over the past week
Downtown Tucson, Oct, 23, 2019.

News roundup: Tucson nurses fight for better conditions, daily death toll again breaks record

Jan 12, 2021 Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Jan. 12.
Oak Flat, east of Superior, Arizona. A company proposes to build one of the world's largest underground copper mines at this location.

Land swap of Oak Flat due to start Friday

Jan 12, 2021 The transfer is opposed by San Carlos Apache tribal members who do not want it become a copper mine.
President Donald Trump stands at a section of border wall on the southern border near Yuma, June 23, 2020.

New letter asks Mexican officials to help stop border wall construction

Jan 12, 2021 As Trump visits the border for the last time in his presidency, groups say they want Mexico to stand against more wall.
Calvin C. Good - Arizona civil rights leader and former councilman

Racist slurs interrupt online funeral for Arizona civil rights icon

Jan 12, 2021 Memorial service for civil rights and city leader Calvin Coolidge Goode disrupted
A Centers for Disease Control illustration of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Arizona sets virus deaths record, hospitalizations top 5,000

Jan 12, 2021 Virus surge shows no signs of slowing

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