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Looking upstream Sabino Creek on one of the bridges at the popular recreation site in Tucson in early winter.

Arizona seeks to create surface water protections after Clean Water Act rollback

Mar 5, 2021 The legislation aims to fill the gap left by the rollback of federal protections, but not everyone is pleased with the current proposal.
The Colorado River flows into the All-American Canal below the Imperial Dam on the California-Arizona border.

In rapidly warming Colorado River Basin, the negotiating table is being set

Mar 3, 2021 A new round of talks could define how the river system adapts to a changing climate for the next generation.
Pima County encourages voters to vote by mail in this year's elections.

State Senate changes Permanent Early Voting List

Mar 2, 2021 Staying on the list would require voting under new legislation passed by the Senate.
The City of Tucson now requires glass for recycling to be placed in bins, not curbside containers.

Economics drives glass recycling

Feb 25, 2021 Tucson keeps its used glass local.
Dr. Jill Jim, the Executive Director of the Navajo Department of Health and one of the COVID-19 advisors who prepared President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris during the presidential transition.

Conversation with health expert in the Navajo Nation about COVID-19

Feb 24, 2021 The head of the Navajo Department of Health also talks about her experiences advising then President-elect Joe Biden on COVID-19.
A woman and girl sit on the sidewalk with a group of migrants as they wait to enter the Kino Border Initiative's cafeteria. The nonprofit provides humanitarian aid to migrants and deportees in Nogales, Sonora. February 2020.

As Biden rolls back 'Remain in Mexico,' advocates say next steps are still murky

Feb 16, 2021 The controversial Trump-era program forced over 70,000 people to wait for U.S. asylum hearings in Mexican border cities.
Arizona tourist sites were flooded over the Memorial Day weekend with visitors, leading health officials to fear that they will spread the coronavirus and there will be a spike in COVID-19 cases in a few weeks.

Alcohol abuse soars in lockdown

Feb 16, 2021 Severe alcohol use jumps 400% in lockdown, according to UA researchers
A Tucson Fire Department vehicle and gear.

Tucson invests for pension payments

Feb 12, 2021 The city is trying to get rid of a long-term, billion-dollar debt.
A scene from the Oak Flat campground, a site sacred to Apache peoples and the epicenter of lawsuits trying to block the development of a large copper mine.

A conversation with law expert about Oak Flat and treaties

Feb 11, 2021 Law Professor Stacy Leeds discusses how a treaty from 1852 has bearing in the battle over Oak Flat.
Aerial view of the border wall at the Tinajas Altas Mountains near Yuma, AZ.

Biden halted border wall construction. Now what?

Feb 5, 2021 Environmental and human rights advocates hope to steer the administration toward a new vision at the border.
Indigenous-led protesters walk along a construction line in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Sept. 2020.

Border wall scars: 'It feels like if someone got a knife and dragged it across my heart.'

Feb 4, 2021 Tribal leaders and Borderlands communities reflect on their fruitless struggle to stop the wall.
Border wall construction at Guadalupe Canyon in southeastern Arizona.

After months of border wall construction, a look at the damage done

Feb 3, 2021 As President Biden takes the helm, conservation groups take stock of the border wall’s environmental impacts.
COVID19

Arizona feelings about COVID-19 are based on politics

Jan 29, 2021 A new poll shows politics equals COVID reactions in the state.
Cocopah Indian Tribe Vice-Chairwoman Rosa J. Long getting her second Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose in January 2020.

Cocopah Indian Tribe COVID-19 vaccine rollout, evaluating public's interest

Jan 28, 2021 To better understand the stigma behind vaccines in the community, the tribe launched a survey and asked for questions.
A handout image from Banner Health shows a health care worker in one of the hospital's COVID-19 units.

Pima County Medical Examiner discusses capacity issues, COVID-19 surges

Jan 21, 2021 Last week, the Pima County Coroner's Office reached capacity for storing bodies. County medical examiner Greg Hess says the crisis has never been worse
A sign outside Banner - University Medicine North in Tucson for the hospital's COVID-19 vaccine distribution site. Dec. 17, 2020.

Pima County faces COVID-19 vaccine shortage

Jan 20, 2021 Officials say there is about a week’s worth of vaccine left.

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