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Vials of naloxone, which can be used to counter the effects of an opioid overdose.

Some pushing for wider distribution of opioid-overdose antidote

Mar 5, 2020 With hundreds of overdoses so far this year, law enforcement and health workers are using naloxone to save lives.

Accusations fly between Rocky Point neighborhood, local government

Mar 4, 2020 Tensions have been simmering between the government and the Las Conchas community, which counts affluent Arizonans among its members.

The exterior of the AC Marriott Hotel in downtown Tucson.

Groups say development incentives are gentrifying Tucson

Mar 4, 2020 Activists say GPLET agreements drive up rents. The reality is more complicated.

The Madagascar jumping frog has experienced climate-related local extinction.

UA researchers warn of time frame for species extinctions

Mar 3, 2020 A new report says some plants and animals will succumb to climate change in 50 years.

Just days after it ruled that a Mexican family could not sue the Border Patrol agent who shot from Texas and killed their son across the border, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered a lower court to reconsider its ruling that a Sonoran family could sue an agent for a similar shooting in Nogales.

Supreme Court vacates ruling in Nogales cross-border shooting

Mar 3, 2020 The high court’s order followed its 5-4 ruling last week in a nearly identical case from Texas.

Chaco Canyon was once a hub of Indigenous civilization. Many cultural resources and sacred sights remain.

Conservationists: Oil drilling plan doesn't do enough to protect Chaco

Mar 3, 2020 The BLM projects as many as 3,000 new oil and gas wells in the area surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

An illustration from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses.

Arizona officials say state well prepared for coronavirus risk

Mar 2, 2020 The state's residents are currently at low risk for the coronavirus that causes COVID 19, according to state officials.

File image of a row of lockers in a school.

Arizona teachers significantly less diverse than students

Mar 2, 2020 Experts say a diverse teacher pool can have an impact on student achievement.

Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., at President Donald Trump’s rally in Phoenix in February, faces a difficult election in the fall to fill out the remaining two years of the late Sen. John McCain’s term, who she was appointed to replace in 2018.

Court rejects claim that Ducey’s pick of McSally was unconstitutional

Mar 2, 2020 A 9th Circuit panel found the governor can make "temporary" appointments and that the time between the appointment and the election is not unreasonably long.

The San Xavier del Bac Mission, January 2009.

Mission San Xavier in Tucson to undergo preservation project

Mar 2, 2020 Workers will spend the next two years replacing problematic plaster around the structure’s centuries-old brick walls.

An inmate lies on the floor under a blanket in his cell at the Pima County Adult Detention Complex.

Coronavirus precautions, treating addiction in jail, border detonations

Feb 28, 2020 Arizona 360 revisits AZPM's ongoing Arizona Addicted reporting series.

A view of construction crews in the distance along the border on Monument Hill in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

Tohono O’odham chair decries ongoing controlled blasts for border wall project

Feb 28, 2020 Chairman Ned Norris, Jr. testified during a U.S. House subcommittee hearing.

A Pima County correctional officer glances inside a cell at the county jail.

How Pima County treats inmates with addiction, behavioral health issues

Feb 28, 2020 Lorraine Rivera toured the jail with correctional officers and health care staff.

Why getting a flu shot is advised amid coronavirus concerns

Feb 28, 2020 A discussion with UA epidemiologist Michael Worobey.

The NOAA says Northern Hemisphere snow coverage in January was the 18th-smallest in 54 years of keeping records.

January 2020 was warmest January in 141 years of records, NOAA says

Feb 28, 2020 The four warmest Januaries documented in the climate record have occurred since 2016, the agency said.

Mexican scientists and doctors are getting special training to attend a possible coronavirus outbreak.

Mexico prepares for the expected arrival of coronavirus

Feb 28, 2020 The president says the country is prepared for an outbreak and accused opponents of stoking fears to discredit him.

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