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Pat Shoneck and Eileen Green ride in a golf cart at the Swan Lake Estates mobile home park, a 55+ park where Shoneck lives.

Heat, COVID-19 and isolation put mobile home parks at risk

Sep 2, 2020 Ten percent of metro Tucsonans live in manufactured housing. But residents there face risks made worse by COVID-19 and record heat.

The entrance to the U.S. Census Bureau's office in Tucson.

Arizona has one of the lowest Census response rates in the country

Sep 1, 2020 With one month left, 74% of Arizonans have been counted.

A sign on the campus of the University of Arizona directs visitors to a COVID-19 testing site, August 2020.

UA stepping up COVID-19 enforcement

Sep 1, 2020 Increased cases bring private guards to campus and a deal with TPD.

The open sign is illuminated in the window of Casa de Nails in South Tucson. The salon reopened once Gov. Doug Ducey eased COVID-19-related restrictions on hair stylists and nail salons.

News roundup: Climbing electric bills add worry during pandemic, county businesses reopen

Sep 1, 2020 Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Sept. 1.

Cracked mud flats appear on the surface of Quitobaquito pond on July 18, 2020.

Report highlights biodiversity loss at Quitobaquito during border wall construction

Sep 1, 2020 Borderland scientists say that with all the noise "neither the birds nor the bird watchers want to be at Quitobaquito right now."

A 'collision of crises' is leaving thousands in Tucson struggling with electric bills

Sep 1, 2020 Record heat, unemployment and a pandemic are adding to household financial troubles.

Pima County Sheriff Mark Napier in Nogales, Arizona, Feb. 9, 2017.

Napier threatens legal action against Nanos

Aug 31, 2020 The race for Pima County Sheriff could end up in court over a defamation claim.

News roundup: Race for Pima County Sheriff, indirect death toll of COVID-19, crowdfunding for student computers

Aug 31, 2020 Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Aug. 31.

GoFundMe campaign raises more than $20,000 for students at San Xavier Mission School

Aug 31, 2020 The money will be used to buy laptops for students in the Tohono O'odham Nation doing virtual learning.

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

Coronavirus risk lessens in Sonora, Mexican officials say

Aug 31, 2020 The Mexican state to Arizona's south has entered a "medium" phase of risk.

Remembering Lute Olson

Aug 30, 2020 The former UA basketball coach is dead at 85.

File image of an empty classroom at Sabino High School in Tucson.

Education notebook: More counties get green light for class return, UA testing wastewater for COVID-19

Aug 29, 2020 A look back at this week's education stories in Southern Arizona and the state.

News Roundup: Pedestrian safety, unemployment fraud, Lute Olson

Aug 28, 2020 Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Aug. 28.

An office for the Arizona Department of Economic Security in Tucson. March 2020.

Unemployment fraud, bridging digital divides, Mexican consulate

Aug 28, 2020 Plus, a discussion about managing at-home stressors related to remote learning.

A boy uses the computer lab at the nonprofit Chicanos Por La Causa in Phoenix on August 24, 2020.

Arizona nonprofit focused on bridging students’ digital divide

Aug 28, 2020 Chicanos Por La Causa is providing refurbished computers to needy families.

Greater scrutiny on fraudulent unemployment claims in Arizona

Aug 28, 2020 DES has paid out more than $9 billion in unemployment insurance benefits during the pandemic.

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