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A Customs and Border Protection drug detection K-9 sniffs luggage at the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales.

Seizing fentanyl at Arizona’s border

Jan 10, 2020 How CBP and the DEA have adopted new strategies to detect the drug.
Arizona 360 host Lorraine Rivera interviews Arizona Department of Health Services Director Cara Christ on Jan. 7, 2020.

ADHS director on steps taken to curb opioid overdoses

Jan 10, 2020 Impacts made by the 2018 Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act.
UA professor John Rutherfoord (3rd from right) with colleagues at the Large Hadron Collider.

UA physicist says many subatomic breakthroughs to come

Jan 10, 2020 John Rutherfoord is among researchers using the Large Hadron Collider.
A Marine with the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command stands post during the reinforcement of the Baghdad Embassy Compound in Iraq on Jan. 4. (Photo by Sgt. Kyle C. Talbot/U.S. Marine Corps)

Arizona lawmakers, House, split on vote demanding end to attacks on Iran

Jan 10, 2020 Democrats said they hoped to reassert congressional authority over war powers, and Republicans accused the other side of playing politics.
Mansfeld Middle Magnet School is one of 17 TUSD schools receiving AzMERIT results-based funding in 2020.

17 TUSD schools get funding boost based on test results

Jan 10, 2020 The district says it's the most funding it has received since the state program started rewarding AzMERIT results in 2017.
Boulder Basin at Lake Mead.

Planning for a future with less Colorado River water

Jan 9, 2020 A new book sheds light on mistakes of the past while Arizona gears up for the next round of negotiations.
Construction on new border wall fencing at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in September, 2019.

Grijalva asks feds to 'respect tribal lands' during border construction

Jan 9, 2020 U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva is asking the Department of Homeland Security to formally consult with the Tohono O'odham Nation.
Border fence construction projects funded by $3.6 billion pulled from military projects can go forward after the Trump administration won a case in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Trump administration wins appeal, pushes border fence projects forward

Jan 9, 2020 A lower court had stopped construction on 175 miles of the southwest border in areas along all four border states.
Tucson Mayor Regina Romero creates a task force on gun violence Jan. 9, 2020. She also joined the Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

Mayor Romero creates task force on gun violence

Jan 9, 2020 The newly elected mayor also joined a national group of city leaders working to end gun violence.
Most of the 57,000 jobs the Census Bureau hopes to fill in Arizona for the decennial census will be for enumerators, the people who go door to door to follow up with people who have not filled out their Census forms.

Help wanted, and wanted, and wanted: Census to hire 57,000 in Arizona

Jan 9, 2020 Most of the jobs in Arizona involve going door to door to interview people who have not filled out the census form.
Kelly Willis and Michelle Balogh, Brian Terry's sisters, speak out the U.S. District Courthouse in Tucson following the life sentence imposed on Heraclio Osorio Arellanes.

Man gets life in prison for 2010 killing of US border agent Brian Terry

Jan 9, 2020 Heraclio Osorio Arellanes was a member of a "rip crew" that fired on Terry's unit in 2010, killing the Border Patrol agent.
Lake Mead outside Las Vegas, Nevada, serves as the Colorado River's largest reservoir and a key water source for Arizona, California, Nevada and Mexico.

Colorado River water forecast lower than normal despite snowpack

Jan 9, 2020 The forecast is mostly due to hot and dry weather in the fall that left soils parched across the region.
A bell is rung Jan. 8, 2020, commemorating the 19 people who were killed or wounded during the mass shooting in Tucson on Jan. 8, 2011.

Tucson marks ninth anniversary of Jan. 8 shooting

Jan 8, 2020 Survivors, family members, first responders and community members gathered downtown.
The Kanab ambersnail was listed as an endagered species for more than 20 years, but federal officials have proposed taking it off the list after determining it is not a species distinct from other, more common ambersnails.

Feds say tiny snail in Utah, Arizona can no longer be listed as endangered

Jan 8, 2020 U.S. Fish and Wildlife says the Kanab ambersnail is not actually its own species.
Kaibeto Kneel Down Bread vendor sells Navajo tamales in Kaibeto, Arizona.

New online tool points consumers Native American-owned businesses

Jan 8, 2020 The RezRising website and phone app aims to not only draw attention to Native American entrepreneurs, but also change attitudes.
Downtown Tucson, Oct. 23, 2019.

Tucson and Arizona continue war of wills over when to hold elections

Jan 8, 2020 The City Council this week told legal staff to assert Tucson's right to keep the system as it is.

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