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The Buzz: Getting to Know Oracle

Our new summer series makes its first stop just across the Pima/Pinal county line.

Airplane Crash from 1948 is Revisited and Researched

A professor and author is trying to find the families of all 32 victims.

The hot-tub league: How a Mesa spa brought spring training to Arizona

15 teams now call Arizona their spring training homes.

Tucson to begin returning ancestral lands to Tohono O’odham Nation

City council unanimously moved to direct the city attorney to present a plan for approval at the next council meeting.

The Buzz: Why a 32-year-old federal law has failed to bring Native American remains home

A federal law was supposed to ensure returns of most remains by 1995. So why are thousands of Arizona tribal remains still not back with their people?

Volunteers throw mud to preserve an ancient artifact in Phoenix

Once a month, Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park encourages visitors to throw mud at a more than 800-year-old structure.

Pearl Harbor survivor Jack Holder dies in Arizona at age 101

He went on become a decorated World War II flyer who flew over 100 missions in the Pacific and European theaters.

The first-ever "Tombstone Festival of Western Books" to be celebrated

Residents are holding the event ahead of the Tucson Festival of Books

New archive documents the lives of detained asylum seekers and migrants

The series includes a dozen oral histories, artwork and letters from migrants.

The Buzz: Black History in Southern Arizona

New efforts are being made to bring contributions by the area's Black population to light.

Empathy and humanity are at the center of Holocaust education in Arizona

Under a bill signed by Gov. Doug Ducey in 2021, schools must teach the events of the Holocaust and other genocides twice from grade 7 to grade 12.

Museum in Sierra Vista starts the year with a financial boost.

The Henry Hauser Museum is getting help from the Sierra Vista Historical Society.

HistoriCorps volunteers help preserve structures at Crescent Moon Ranch in Sedona

The organization provides food, a campsite and construction education throughout the preservation process.

UA scientists still learning from Apollo 17 rocks 50 years ago

University of Arizona lunar scientists are still discovering details from the last manned moon mission's rocks.

The Buzz takes a trip down the Verde River

Meet a man who has made saving this unique waterway his life's work

The Colorado River Compact turns 100 years old

The question is, is it still working?

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