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Rancher John Ladd opens a gate on his property where it meets the U.S.-Mexico border fence.

‘Build the wall’ across the San Pedro River? Many say ‘no’

Aug 16, 2019 Disparate groups agree that walling off Arizona's last free-flowing river is a bad idea.
Looking out on Boulder Basin, Lake Mead.

Climate change still threatens Colorado River after wet winter

Aug 15, 2019 Despite recent wet conditions, states still face a future with increasingly less water for farms and cities.
This image distributed by Pima County via social media on Aug. 14, 2019 shows a part of the county's Legal Services Building, where distinctive blue-green bricks have dislodged. Efforts are underway to find and repair loose bricks on the the building, built in 1967.

Twenty-story county building is losing its bricks

Aug 14, 2019 Contractors will inspect and repair the 50-year-old tower.
Existing bollard-style fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.

New border fencing on hold for 45 days

Aug 14, 2019 The Department of Homeland Security is delaying its plans to build more miles of wall barrier along the border.
Superintendent Gabriel Trujillo shared his idea to move sixth graders back to elementary schools and house only seventh and eighth grade students in junior high schools at a Governing Board meeting April 30, 2019.

TUSD moves closer toward approving new sex education curriculum

Aug 14, 2019 The district's sex ed policies have not been updated since 2006.
The proposed site of the Rosemont Copper mining project is in the Santa Rita Mountains in Southern Arizona.

Rosemont Copper mine ruling expected to have national impact

Aug 13, 2019 If upheld, the ruling would make opening a large mine on public lands very difficult, experts say.
A 2017 lidar "point cloud" image of the Washington Mall in Washington, D.C. Advances in remote sensing technologies are changing the types and quantity of data available to researchers.

Understanding data more and more important for college students, professor says

Aug 13, 2019 Hoshin Gupta suggests there are some basic ways of seeing the world through data that all college students should understand.
Red dresses representing missing and murdered Indigenous women, displayed at the Verna N. Enos Toka Field on the Tohono O'odham Nation, 2018.

Ducey signs bill to investigate missing, murdered Indigenous women

Aug 13, 2019 Legislation passed in May established a task force to be made up of tribal leaders, victims advocates, tribal police and social workers.
A Border Patrol vehicle at the fence on the U.S.-Mexico border near Nogales.

Border Patrol agent who ran down fleeing immigrant offered plea deal

Aug 13, 2019 Matthew Bowen faced charges over ramming a migrant with his vehicle and lying about it to investigators.
This screen grab from a NASA video released Aug. 12, 2019 shows four potential locations on Bennu for the OSIRIS-REx probe to collect soil samples.

OSIRIS-REx team IDs targets among boulders of asteroid's rough terrain

Aug 13, 2019 Asteroid Bennu's tricky surface has pushed the mission to take a new approach to sample collection.
Atala Chávez is director of the Institute of Social and Cultural Research and Practice (IIPSOCULTA), a nonprofit agency in Mexico City helping deported migrants.

Deportee flight cancellation to Mexico brings new challenges to migrants

Aug 12, 2019 Migrants being obliged to use border crossings is making them more vulnerable, a nonprofit agency says.
Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard speaks at a press conference in this photo published March 28, 2019.

Mexico offers legal aid to migrants arrested in Mississippi raids

Aug 12, 2019 Mexican citizens who are deported will receive help in obtaining work, health care and schooling, the country's foreign relations secretary said.
A row of vehicles outfitted with Waymo's self-driving technology sit parked in the company's depot in Chandler, Arizona.

Automation in Arizona

Aug 9, 2019 Arizona 360 explores how some companies and organizations are taking a proactive approach to automation.
Oak Flat, east of Superior, Arizona. A company proposes to build one of the world's largest underground copper mines at this location.

Forest Service releases environmental review of Resolution Copper mine

Aug 9, 2019 The agency is seeking public comment on the controversial project near Superior, Arizona.
An aerial mock-up of what the Pascua Yaqui Health Services Center II will look like.

Pascua Yaqui Tribe starts building new health services center

Aug 9, 2019 The building will centralize specialty clinics and other social services available to tribal members.
The Northern Arizona University campus in Flagstaff, Arizona.

NAU to implement 'virtual parking' with cameras that read plates

Aug 9, 2019 License plates will be treated as permits and scanned by cameras mounted to university vehicles, officials said.

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