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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.'

Tribal leaders and Borderlands communities reflect on their fruitless struggle to stop the wall.
Flashing lights on top of a police car.

Pima County deputies arrest 48 for illegal street racing

Racers were using a county road near Tucson International Airport as a racing strip
New border fence going up in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on Feb. 26, 2020.

Monitors head to the border after order to halt the wall

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order halting all border wall construction

Pima County curfew on hold

A judge put the 10:00 p.m. curfew on hold, for now.
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

Officials say there is about a week’s worth of vaccine left.
Too often, extra screen time before sleeping is incompatible with quality rest. "See Me Serene" is designed to be used as a relaxation tool.

Measuring Loneliness

Also on Arizona Spotlight: "See Me Serene" can add free positivity to your phone; The Cooper Center expands both online and in the desert; plus a song from Stories That Soar!
A sign outside Banner - University Medicine North in Tucson for the hospital's COVID-19 vaccine distribution site. Dec. 17, 2020.

Pima County moves to Prioritized 1B for COVID-19 vaccines

More than 20,000 people signed up in a couple hours today.
Dr. Christian Bime, medical director of the ICU at Banner - UMC Tucson, receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 17, 2020.

Pima County readies COVID-19 vaccine expansion

The county is preparing four additional vaccine sites.
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S.

Arizona reports 11,021 new COVID-19 cases, 105 more deaths

Pima County reported 1,555 new cases with 44 deaths
Health care workers prepare to administer a doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at a distribution site at Banner - University Medical North in Tucson on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020.

After first dose, Tucson nurse urges trust in COVID-19 vaccine

Pima County has one of the state's highest vaccination rates so far.
Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry at his desk in 2019.

Pima County Board balks at Huckelberry contract

Three rookie board members want 2 weeks to think about it.
Bars of a jail cell.

New Pima County attorney drops cash bail, some deportations

Laura Conover took office Monday, replacing Barbara LaWall.
COVID19

Arizona reports more than 5,100 new COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths

More than 850 news cases in Pima County, nearly 80 in Cochise County
The Pima County Board of Supervisors meets at the County Administration Building in downtown Tucson.

Pima County's COVID-19 costs keep growing

Federal money for the pandemic has run out.
COVID19

Arizona reports over 5K additional COVID-19 cases, 78 deaths

Hospitalizations are at a record high
A Centers for Disease Control illustration of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Total COVID-19 cases in Arizona now more than 500,000

Pandemic shows no signs of abating

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