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A highway sign between Bisbee and Elfrida in Cochise County, 2016.

In Cochise County, more space may slow coronavirus spread, but presents a challenge for care

Mar 26, 2020 County officials say testing is not necessary for all.
Arizona Department of Health Services Director Cara Christ gives COVID-19 updates with Gov. Doug Ducey, in this still image from a March 25 video.

Arizona health director expects COVID-19 illnesses to peak in April, hospitalizations in May

Mar 26, 2020 Gov. Ducey on Thursday issued an order to hospitals to develop plans to increase capacity.
Professor Michael Sulkowski says it's important for parents adjusting to school closures and working from home not to try and be an expert teacher and to be a parent first.

Advice to parents: Listen, be flexible and cut yourselves a break

Mar 25, 2020 A school psychology professor offers suggestions to parents during school closures related to the new coronavirus.
Photo posted March 13 on the Arizona Department of Health Facebook page in a post about the state's COVID-19 testing capacity at the time.

UA student tests positive for COVID-19, describes experience

Mar 23, 2020 The student, who is recovering in quarantine, says she was tested because she had asthma.
Martin Fontes installs a take out window in the doorway of Martin's Comida Chingona on March 18, 2020.

Caruso's, other local restaurants counting on takeout and delivery to make it through virus

Mar 19, 2020 Restaurants have few options after Tucson adopted the White House's latests COVID-19 guidelines.
Looking upstream Sabino Creek on one of the bridges at the popular recreation site in Tucson in early winter.

Arizona working to define and protect its waterways cut from Clean Water Act

Mar 10, 2020 The state needs to fill a regulatory gap following the new "Waters of the U.S." rule.
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.
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.
Craig Station, a coal fired power plant in northwest Colorado, is slated to close by 2030.

As Western coal plants close, what happens to their water?

Feb 27, 2020 Closures looming, communities are starting to discuss how this newly freed up water should be put to use.

Novel or familiar: A conversation about drug addiction and the brain

Feb 19, 2020 Researchers are seeking a better understanding of compulsive behavior on a cellular level.
Mohab Ibrahim wondered if the green of parks could be why they seem to be effective at soothing headaches.

How green light might help pain sufferers wary of opioid addiction

Feb 19, 2020 A UA scientist is researching how the color green can be used to help manage chronic pain.
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.
The New Beginnings Clinic on the Pascua Yaqui Tribe's reservation is the only medication-assisted treatment facility on tribal lands in Arizona as of February 2020.

Pascua Yaqui clinic working to treat opioid addiction, overcome stigma

Feb 6, 2020 The clinic is the state's only medication-assisted treatment facility on tribal land.
The Community Medical Services clinic in Sierra Vista opened in March 2019. It serves about 130 patients and operates from 4:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Miles from Recovery: How distance and stigma keep rural Arizonans from opioid treatment

Feb 4, 2020 As treatment options expand, solutions remain elusive for some.
U.S. Geological Survey ecologist Todd Esque holds a tortoise shell in the Mojave Desert, south of Las Vegas.

Climate change, and our response to it, is making life hard for desert tortoises

Jan 23, 2020 Tortoises are being hit with a one-two punch of energy projects springing up in a desert that is getting hotter and drier.
Looking upstream Sabino Creek on one of the bridges at the popular recreation site in Tucson in early winter.

Proposed Clean Water Act changes will mean uncertainty, loss of protections for Arizona waterways

Dec 18, 2019 The Trump administration is implementing a new rule defining which waterways are regulated under the act.

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