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The radio station in the Pascua Yaqui Tribe's reservation, which formerly housed the tribe's early voting site.

Legal settlement is a win for Pascua Yaqui voting rights.

Aug 18, 2021 Also on Arizona Spotlight: Understanding Lewy Body Dementia; and remembering NPR broadcaster Neal Conan through his love of comic books.
A sign posted outside the University of Arizona BookStores at the Student Union reminds customers that masks are required to shop inside.

UA requiring masks indoors, but campus groups have other concerns about risks

Aug 13, 2021 The Coalition for Academic Justice at the University of Arizona says the campus community should have more input in the UA's response to the pandemic.
An eviction hearing takes place virtually in the courtroom of Judge Ronald Newman at the Pima County Consolidated Justice Court on Aug. 11, 2021.

With moratorium in place, how eviction cases are processed in court

Aug 13, 2021 Plus, new legal resources available to tenants in Pima County facing eviction.
A sous chef prepares orders while masked inside the kitchen at Barrio Charro in Tucson.

Why employers can require masks and vaccines among workers

Aug 13, 2021 A discussion with Tucson labor attorney Barney Holtzman.
A folder with opioid resource information inside the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center. January 2020.

Pima County warns overdose deaths on the rise, fentanyl accounts for over half

Aug 13, 2021 Health officials say the pandemic is partially responsible for a rise in substance misuse.
Saguaro National Park employees climbing up a hill within the park to find and spray bunches of buffelgrass with herbicide August 2021.

How one grass at Saguaro National Park shows push and pull of climate change

Aug 12, 2021 If left unchecked, buffelgrass poses a tremendous fire danger to native plants and the homes nearby.
A cross marking the place where a man in his 30s died in 2009 lays a few hundred yards from one of the water stations Humane Borders sets out for migrants crossing the desert.

Deaths along the Arizona-Mexico border are on pace to set a new record

Aug 11, 2021 More than 140 sets of remains have been recovered from the Arizona desert so far this year.
Lake Pleasant, north of Phoenix, is a major reservoir for Colorado River water. Each summer the lake is pumped down to send water to Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima counties. July 2021

Water cutbacks coming to Arizona

Aug 9, 2021 A decades-long drought means less water from the Colorado River.
A flag flies by the dome of the U.S. Capitol.

Foothills want out of current congressional and legislative districts

Aug 9, 2021 Residents gave the Independent Redistricting Commission an earful.
A server carries a tray with food at the Cup Cafe at Hotel Congress in Tucson.

Proponents: raising Tucson’s min wage to $15 about offering living wage

Aug 6, 2021 The group Tucson Fight for $15 is leading the charge.
A credit card reader belonging to a business inside American Eat Company in Tucson.

Opponents: prop raising Tucson’s min wage would burden small businesses

Aug 6, 2021 The Tucson Metro Chamber has come out against the Tucson Minimum Wage Act.
A sculpture outside of the University of Arizona's Main Library is donned with a face mask.

Concerns about delta variant loom over new school year

Aug 6, 2021 Experts and community leaders continue to encourage eligible people get vaccinated against COVID-19.
An empty chair outside of a former motel on North Oracle Road that the city of Tucson purchased and transformed into bridge housing for people experiencing homelessness. August 2021.

City of Tucson buying properties to expand transitional housing

Aug 6, 2021 Tony Paniagua spoke to one mother who is utilizing the new program.
Row homes in Tucson's Barrio Viejo.

What eviction ban extension means for Pima County renters, landlords

Aug 6, 2021 The moratorium continues through October in areas with high COVID-19 transmission rates.
Guns on display in a Tucson store.

Tucson homicide rate soars

Aug 5, 2021 The increase is part of a national trend.
COVID-19 signage at Davidson Elementary. March 2021.

TUSD supe says new law barring mask mandates in schools a challenge

Jul 30, 2021 Dr. Gabriel Trujillo discusses what mitigation protocols the district will have in place when students return August 5.

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