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State health officials quit to protest a politicized confirmation process; Saguaro National Park continues to grow; we visit a county program that invests in people; and more...

A Cochise County wildfire has residents packing their go bags; Tucson Unified gets ready to eliminate empty positions ; NAU loses science funding, ending research into Valley Fever; and more...

Tucson weighs buying the local electric grid; The state fires an accused human smuggler; the standards for “forever chemicals” might be loosened; and more...

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The state's schools chief thinks anti-diversity policies will stand; Tucson is in a turf war, and turf is losing; a long time tucson charity gets a new identity; and more...

Foreign students get a break in federal court; Navajo educators resist Trump's anti-DEI initiative; Some local inventors want to turn the sky electric; and more...

State lawmakers save an endangered disability program that was days from collapsing; A Tucson park get s a facelift; two Arizona heroes erased from military history are back; and more...

Tucson fast-tracks a new council appointment; An investigation targets state prisons; the 211 system that helps people in crisis faces a crisis of its own; and more...

Indigenous leaders fear losing head start; Trump fires a key water official; banning the music that idolizes drug cartels; and more...

Catholics mourn the passing of the pope and await the next one; a young man wrongly held by immigration speaks out; a tech startup takes aim at a common Arizona malady; and more...

A US citizen describes being arrested by immigration; School districts certify they're not DEI; another round of protests is ahead this weekend; and more...

The governor tries to get her way on disability funding; TUSD agrees to Trump's ban on diversity programs; A documentary profiles astronomers who defend the planet; and more...

Trump ends legal help for migrants; TUSD braces for a tough fiscal year; Brewers face potential tariffs; and more...

A new voice on the Pima County Board; A plea to keep Arizona's Medicaid funded; Dire predictions if more border wall is built; and more...

The Trump administration claims border land for the military; Arizona edges closer to paying student athletes; What happens when modern science meets indigenous culture; and more...

Tucson sets a record, and it's not a good one; Lawmakers want to force cities and counties to cooperate with immigration; why a little copper in your blood is a good thing; and more...

Candidates for the Pima County Board make their case; The president wants to reopen a coal fired power plant; Shoppers line up for teeny tiny tote bags; and more...

Tucson accepts immigration money; The U of A is it taking its diversity programs off the books; there's a growing traffic jam in outer space; and more...

The Border Patrol changes its story in a migrant's death by suicide; Ton Homan promises total control on the southern border; the NCAA says farewell to Cedrick Dempsey; and more...

Thousands turn out in Tucson to say Hands Off; LDS church officials plan a new temple in the state; is the Army pumping one of Arizona's rivers dry; and more...

An immigrant takes her own life in custody; the state may try to extinguish raging fire insurance rates; plants, like people, feel the heat from climate change; and more...

The state high court rules on a hot-button abortion issue; Remembering Val Kilmer in Arizona; coming face to face with immigration agents; and more...

As new tariffs take hold, local experts predict the worst; Gallego puts the brakes on VA appointments; the U of A adds a “memory lab”; and more...

An accident injures students and snarls traffic north of Tucson; Adelita Grijalva says goodbye to one job as she runs for another; the little town of Sedona is a little less little; and more...

Adelita Grjialva aims to follow in her father's footsteps; The jobless rate edges upward; State officials are keeping an eye on social security; and more...