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The San Xavier School, on Tohono O'odham land. The school was founded in1864.

Back to school: San Xavier del Bac Mission School reopens after two-year hiatus

Aug 5, 2024 Historic catholic school welcomes young learners back to campus with renewed spirit and community support
Tucson Water's Advanced Oxidation Process Treatment Facility located at 1110 W. Irvington Road Tucson, Ariz. This facility that is operated and maintained by Tucson Water was brought online in 2014, and works in conjunction with the adjacent Tucson Airport Remediation Project (TARP) to treat for trichloroethylene known as TCE, 1,4 dioxane and other volatile organic compounds.

Toxic Waters: EPA and military clash over Tucson’s groundwater cleanup

Jul 31, 2024 Families affected by cancer and premature deaths blame a history of polluted water in southern Tucson. The water utility is trying to clean up the problem.
Two volunteers pack bags of snacks to pass out to unhoused people in Tucson at the Historic Y on Sunday, July 22, 2024.

Community group is helping the homeless and redefining religion

Jul 23, 2024 Two bishops in the Liberal Catholic Church International have traded preaching for community organizing.
The negotiators who wrote the Colorado River Compact pose for a photo in 1922. They were deliberate in choosing their words, which still shape a river that supplies 40 million people more than a century later.

These three words from 1922 are at the heart of the latest Colorado River clash

Jul 22, 2024 It’s all rooted in a document called the Colorado River Compact.
City crews are preparing barricades to direct motorists away from flooded roads.

Monsoon brings mixed emotions for road workers

Jul 18, 2024 The staff is on-call 24-hours a day.
Alyx Lunada lays a piece of cloth on the printing press at Word of Mouth Print Space on June 22. They have been screen printing since age 17 and have opened up this space for art and activism to the community.

Messy but meaningful: Tucson print space fosters accessible creative environment

Jul 16, 2024 Word of Mouth Print Space opens their doors to anyone looking for artistic or humanitarian inspiration, whether beginner or expert, on a budget or wanting to splurge.
Itzel waits in Nogales, Sonora, hoping to get a chance to ask for asylum in the U.S., for herself, her husband and their two young daughters. She asked that we don't show their faces due to fears for their safety after running from threats in Mexico City.

Border Patrol continues to discard bulk of migrants’ belongings

Jul 8, 2024 In the first part of a two-part series, Danyelle Khmara explains one of the challenges migrants who cross the border into Arizona are facing — as more people are quickly removed from the country under Biden’s recent limit on asylum.
Downtown Phoenix viewed from City Hall on March 4, 2024. The city's water leaders say they're nearing the ceiling on how much water can be saved through traditional conservation, and are instead turning their eyes and budgets toward new technology that will help decrease demand for water from the Colorado River and underground aquifers.

Does Arizona have enough water?

Jun 25, 2024 Phoenix-area cities are spending big to make sure it does.
University of Arizona President Dr. Robert C. Robbins speaks during an Arizona Board of Regents meeting on April 18, 2024.

UA leadership talks budget cuts, seeks organizational restructure of athletic department

Jun 24, 2024 New budget structure reduces $177 million deficit to $52 million
<a href="https://map22.epa.gov/cimc/superfundZoom&params=0900684&15" target="_blank" style="font-weight:700;margin-right:6px">VIEW THIS MAP FULLSCREEN IN A NEW WINDOW</a>The ten square-mile Tucson International Airport Area Superfund Site is depicted using orange diagonal lines. The site includes Tucson International Airport, Sections of the Tohono O'odham Nation (San Xavier District), Tucson and South Tucson residential areas, and Air Force Plant #44 Raytheon Missile Systems Company (AFP44). The site has contaminated groundwater and soil from former aircraft and electronics manufacturing and aircraft maintenance, fire drill trainings, and the leaking of chemicals from unlined landfills.

EPA Orders Air Force, AZ National Guard to address PFAS contamination at Tucson Superfund Site

Jun 19, 2024 Emergency directive aims to mitigate health threats from toxic chemicals in Tucson’s groundwater, pushing for immediate cleanup action and cost sharing.
Swarms of Arizonans gathered at the Capitol in Phoenix Saturday, joining more than 600 rallies across the country protesting the separation of immigrant families at the U.S. - Mexico border.

Pima County and Arizona are requesting FEMA money for asylum seeker aid programs

Jun 14, 2024 Pima County has been running an aid program for asylum seekers and migrants released by the Border Patrol across southern Arizona to pursue immigration cases in the U.S. since 2019.
Pima County Medical Examiner Greg Hess at his office in Tucson, Ariz. Hess and another Arizona-based medical examiner are rethinking how to catalog and count heat-related deaths, a major step toward understanding the growing impacts of heat.

Here's why an Arizona medical examiner is working to track heat-related deaths

Jun 11, 2024 Rethinking how to catalog and count heat-related deaths is a major step toward understanding the growing impacts of climate change.
Migrants walk to the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry for a CBP One meeting in Nogales, Arizona on Friday, June 7, 2024.

Blocked from asylum, migrants juggle their choices

Jun 10, 2024 Under Biden's asylum ban, migrants can either go home or try to cross into the U.S. again
In the Phoenix area, development accelerated by CHIPS Act investment may disrupt rural lifestyles and transform parts of the desert. Above, developer Charles Eckert.

The Golden Triangle: How the CHIPS Act is changing one Arizona neighborhood

May 31, 2024 The investment and growth spurred by government dollars are heightening competition among residents, business owners and local officials.
Presiding Pima County Constable Eric Krznarich knocks on the door of a tenet that is being evicted.

Eviction filings in Pima County: Constables on the front line of a housing crisis

May 18, 2024 Constables in Pima County enforce evictions, balancing duty and compassion amid rising housing insecurity.
The entrance of the South32 Hermosa mine site, a critical minerals project that looks to source manganese and zinc.

Forest Service begins public scoping period for South32 Hermosa Mine Project

May 10, 2024 If approved the mine will supply zinc and manganese.

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