More than 70 million people in the US are under heat alerts
Officials again are warning residents to take precautions, go indoors and hydrate.
UA Monsoon Madness returns for 2024
Hundreds are expected to enter the annual online contest to predict stormy weather.
HUD will allow more federal dollars to go toward electric bill assistance
Government officials visited a public housing complex in Tucson to make the announcement.
The Buzz: Coping with Extreme Heat
As summer temperatures get dangerous, we look at efforts to keep people safe.
Here's why an Arizona medical examiner is working to track heat-related deaths
Rethinking how to catalog and count heat-related deaths is a major step toward understanding the growing impacts of climate change.
Conflicting weather patterns bring monsoon uncertainty
The upcoming transition between an El Niño winter and a La Niña summer is unique.
Celebrating one of the Sonoran Desert's most popular visitors.
Also on Arizona Spotlight: The secrets of the Vegan Night Market; how the Noyce Teaching Scholarship is helping to find and retain good STEM teachers in Arizona; and Julie Sasse says goodbye to the Tucson Museum of Art.
New research center focuses on hot weather planning
The University of Arizona is playing a key role to help communities mitigate heat effects.
Arizona is boosting efforts to protect people from the extreme heat after hundreds died last summer
Arizona's new heat officer is working with local governments and nonprofit groups to open more cooling centers and ensure homes have working air conditioners.
Hot weather brings annual housing concerns to Arizona
City planners seek to create policies to keep residents cool and relieve the affordable housing crisis.
The Buzz: Invasive plants and wildfire danger
Arizona's increasing risk of wildfire and encroaching invasive plants are putting native plants in peril.
UA’s College of Public Health secures $3.8 million NIH grant to pioneer climate change and health research
SCORCH initiative focuses on forecasting, adaptive responses and community resilience
Rainwater contents may surprise you
A UA study looks at what is in local rain.
How water gets to (most of) us
Most of us get our water from a utility company, be it a large municipal one or a small private entity. This week, we look at the work that one small company does to keep the water flowing, and what happened when another utility had a big problem.
3 inches of rain leads to flooding, evacuations for a small community near the Grand Canyon
A flood advisory remained in effect Wednesday for Tusayan and the surrounding area.
