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The International Outfall Interceptor, or IOI, runs under this concrete-lined wash through the city of Nogales, Ariz.

More money possible to help faulty cross-border sewage pipe

Feb 14, 2020 A longstanding Nogales water contamination problem could see more funding under the President Trump's proposed budget.
A vote here sign in Armory Park.

Registration deadline approaches for Arizona presidential preference election

Feb 14, 2020 Feb. 18 is the last day to update your registration to Democrat to vote in the election.
In this March 2019 file photo, Cindy Harrison rallies in Phoenix in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. Arizona has never approved the ERA, one of just 12 states not to have done so, but Virginia’s recent ratification led the U.S. House to remove a deadline for states’ ratification in hopes of reviving the amendment.

Divided House votes to reset deadline to ratify Equal Rights Amendment

Feb 14, 2020 Arizona is one of 12 states that have never approved the ERA, despite regular attempts by state Democrats to do so.
Image from a Feb. 13 tweet by Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent Roy Villareal, described in the tweet as showing border wall construction near Organ Pipe National Monument.

Border officials: No cultural sites where border explosions are taking place

Feb 14, 2020 A Tucson Sector official said on Twitter the detonations are happening in areas disturbed by the last border fence project.
The Arizona Capitol Building. January 2017

Arizona House bill aims to protect Native American regalia at graduation

Feb 14, 2020 While the language of the bill currently applies to a the broader category of "cultural regalia," lawmakers plan to highlight federally recognized tribes.
A solar array used by Tucson Electric Power to add renewable energy to the grid, August 2019

The price of clean energy in Arizona

Feb 13, 2020 Utility companies are embracing clean energy plans, but also looking to increase rates for consumers to finance the changes.
Road construction and repair signs in Pima County.

Tucson Council members call on Pima County to leave city out of road-repair plan

Feb 13, 2020 The $387 million pay-go program is funded by property taxes from all Pima County residents.
Construction underway on a section of border wall in Organ Pipe National Monument, Sept. 18, 2019.

Defense tries to move more money for border wall construction

Feb 13, 2020 The move has some in Congress calling constitutional foul.
Gila River Indian Community Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis, center, said his tribe is working to solve funding problems, but the federal government has to do its share. He is with Muckleshoot Tribe Council Member Louie Ungaro, left, and Martina Hinds, president of the National Indian Education Association.

Tribal officials press for more, and more predictable, federal funding

Feb 13, 2020 Most who spoke to the appropriations subcommittee were thankful for federal help, but also forceful about federal shortcomings.
Firefighting gear hangs in the dock at Tucson Fire Station 3.

Arizona Senate OKs bill boosting firefighter cancer coverage

Feb 13, 2020 The proposal tightens rules enacted in 2017 that said certain cancers were presumed to be caused by workplace exposures.
The dome of the Arizona Capitol Museum in Phoenix.

Arizona Republicans push tax cuts as state surplus soars

Feb 13, 2020 Minority Democrats are opposed to most of the measures, which include cuts to property and income taxes.
An A-10 Thunderbolt II from the 74th Fighter Squadron at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia flies over Afghanistan in this 2011 photo. The Pentagon plans to retire 44 A-10s in fiscal 2021, which has put some Arizona lawmakers on alert.

Arizona officials keep an eye out, as Defense budget again targets A-10

Feb 12, 2020 The fighter jets have been a mainstay at Tucson's Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
Republican Martha McSally, left, and Democrat Mark Kelly.

First McSally ad for 2020 race slams Kelly over impeachment

Feb 12, 2020 The ad portrays Kelly as too liberal for Arizona.
Mothers and other family members of missing loved ones march through downtown Hermosillo on Mexico's Mother's Day, 2019, including some from Guerreras Buscadoras de Sonora.

Commission head hopes to bring peace to families of missing people in Sonora

Feb 12, 2020 The commission aims to aid groups searching for missing loved ones and to ensure identification of remains.
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's patrol ship M/V Farley Mowat in the Sea of Cortez in September 2019.

Conservationist ship attacked in endangered vaquita refuge

Feb 12, 2020 The crew patrolling to protect the endangered porpoise in the Sea of Cortez came under fire by suspected poachers.
UA researcher John Streicher studies how opioids work in the brain in order to develop nonaddictive painkillers.

Scientist exploring how intermittent fasting might prevent addiction

Feb 11, 2020 If fasting has the same effect on humans as it does on mice, John Streicher says it could be a way to help prevent opioid addiction.

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