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Pima Community College increases tuition, effective this fall

Mar 18, 2024 The college says its tuition increase is meant to better support its programs and give pay raises to its employees.

The University of Arizona men's basketball team battles against USC in their Pac-12 Tournament game.

UA men, women basketball teams both headed to the dance

Mar 17, 2024 Men's team gets a #2 seed in the west, while women land in a First Four game.

The Arizona State Legislature in Phoenix.

Bill would allow natural decomposition as burial option

Mar 16, 2024 Dubbed the “Circle of Life” bills, the proposals seek to legalize natural decomposition and give Arizonans the option to compost their loved ones after death.

Sign advertising COVID-19 state vaccination pod at the University of Arizona.

4 years later, COVID-19 conspiracy still thrives in the Arizona Senate

Mar 15, 2024 A far-right, unofficial committee presented anti-vaccine testimony and defended dubious treatments.

File image of the Winged Victory weather vane atop the copper dome at the historic Capitol Building in Phoenix.

Arizona legislation to better regulate rehab programs targeted by Medicaid scams is moving forward

Mar 15, 2024 Hathalie said she anticipates a vote by the full House could come as soon as Thursday.

Judge mulls third contempt case against Arizona for failing to improve prison health care

Mar 15, 2024 Previous contempt fines totaling $2.5 million have failed to motivate authorities to improve care.

Alex Bowman sits in his car during a practice session for the Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022.

The Buzz: Previewing Season 2 of More Than a Game

Mar 15, 2024 AZPM's sports podcast returns with more of the greatest sports stories you've never heard.

Illustration of VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) on the moon.

Put your mark on the Moon via new NASA rover mission

Mar 15, 2024 The spacecraft is designed to carry names on a microchip.

UPDATE: The madness has started for UA

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

A housing subdivision under construction in Tucson off Silverbell Road. December 2020.

Housing assistance program will face federal budget cuts

Mar 14, 2024 City officials said cuts would most likely be “small.”

SunZia Transmission Project sparks legal dispute over sacred sites preservation

Mar 14, 2024 The Tohono O’odham Nation and San Carlos Apache Tribe seek to halt construction, citing threats to cultural heritage.

People line up to try and land an old tire on the BICAS cactus.

I’m taking this way too seriously as an adult: The growth of mountain biking in Arizona

Mar 14, 2024 In two very different stories about one of America's fastest-growing sports, we head to a 24-hour mountain bike relay race. Then we talk to some of the people behind a documentary about spreading mountain biking on the Navajo Nation.

Water enters an irrigation canal on the Gila River Indian Reservation on May 7, 2021. The Gila River Indian Community is among the most important tribal players in ongoing negotiations about using water from the Colorado River.

Gila River Indian Community says it doesn't support latest Colorado River sharing proposals

Mar 14, 2024 The tribe is among the most prominent of the 30 federally-recognized tribes that use the Colorado River.

Arizona's most populous county has confirmed 645 heat-associated deaths in metro Phoenix last year

Mar 14, 2024 The report said two-thirds of the county's heat-related deaths in 2023 were people 50 years or older.

Gov. Katie Hobbs speaks at the The University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Water Resources Reach Center 2024 Annual Conference: Implementing Water Solutions through Partnerships on March 13, 2024.

Gov. Hobbs says she would veto Republican water bill

Mar 13, 2024 Hobbs said the bill would bill would favor corporations, hurt small farmers.

Massachusetts man gets prison for making bomb threat to Arizona election office

Mar 13, 2024 James Clark, 40, of Falmouth, pleaded guilty in August in U.S. District Court in Phoenix to sending a communication containing a bomb threat to an election official.

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