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Federal dollars for asylum seekers in Tucson on verge of running out as Congress releases spending deal

Mar 21, 2024 Congressional leaders unveiled a spending package with $650 million for short-term asylum services like Casa Alitas in Tucson. However, approval and allocation may come too late to avoid street releases.

Few surprises expected in Arizona’s Presidential Preference Election

Mar 19, 2024 Strategists said they’d be on the lookout for protest voters against President Biden for his handling of Israel and Palestine.

Cochise Supervisors approve $70,000 to clean up Miracle Valley Bible College property

Mar 18, 2024 The purpose of the funds are to prepare the property for auction later this year

UPDATE: The madness has started for UA

Mar 14, 2024 Conference tournaments signal the start of NCAA Basketball Championship season.

USS Arizona collection grows at UA

Mar 14, 2024 The public can get a first-hand look at life on-board.

Balancing Act: The proposed Public Lands Rule aims to transform Bureau of Land Management’s stewardship

Mar 11, 2024 The new rule seeks to redefine priorities and practices at the nation’s largest land manager

AZ Treasurer makes push for an additional financial education course as a high school graduation requirement

Feb 23, 2024 A bill in the legislature proposes to add that requirement.

Diverse community comes together to clean up rural highway

Feb 20, 2024 Every year people of different ideologies come together in Southern Arizona for the highway cleanup from Three Points, through the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge and to Sasabe and the always changing border.

The Blue Ribbon Commission is over - what happens now for the Pima County Jail?

Feb 19, 2024 A look back on the last year as the Board of Supervisors is set to discuss a revealing jail report tomorrow.

Mexican families fleeing violence grows exponentially in Tucson Sector

Feb 12, 2024 The number of Mexican families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border grew nationwide in 2023, but nowhere is that more true than in Arizona’s Tucson Sector where the number of Mexican people in a family grew from 8,500 in 2022 to more than 120-thousand.

Previewing UA's 2024 College of Science Lecture Series

Feb 6, 2024 Presenters will reveal unexpected findings that transformed their fields.

Benson Airport dedicated to late local WWII veteran

Feb 1, 2024 The airport was renamed after Paul Kerchum

Priscilla the Parrotfish brings the ocean plastic problem to the desert

Jan 30, 2024 An Oregon-based nonprofit makes sculptures entirely out of ocean plastic which are now on display in Tucson.

New UA football coach Brent Brennan's journey back to Tucson

Jan 26, 2024 He cites lessons learned from Wildcats coaching legend Dick Tomey.

Local Tucson non-profit is fighting drought in back yards and public spaces

Jan 14, 2024 Tucson Clean and Beautiful's Green Stormwater Infrastructure Program

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