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The number pad and cash dispenser at an ATM.

International athletes watch from sidelines as U.S. peers cash in on NIL deals

In July 2021, the NCAA approved a policy that allows college athletes to monetize their NIL.
The sun blazes before it begins to set.

Pima County heat-related deaths in June topped 2023's totals

Days with high temperatures also saw a notable increase from the previous year.
Arizona Encore showcases classical music performances of both local and touring artists, recorded live at venues throughout the state. Primarily an audio experience, get the experience of sitting in the best seat of the concert hall, no matter where – or when – you listen.

Contemporary Chamber Music - Arizona Encore

This week, it's a program showcasing contemporary trio and quartet works.
The sun sets over Tucson in July 2020, which was the hottest July on record.

Millions swelter under dangerous Fourth of July heat wave

Around 134 million people in the U.S. are under alerts as an “extremely dangerous and record-breaking” heat wave broils much of the country.
Ability360 participants learn the basics of wheelchair curling during a six-week clinic at the Coyotes Curling Club in Tempe.

Curling in the desert: Ability360 champions wheelchair curling in Arizona heat

Ability360 capitalized on the momentum from May to June by hosting six weeks of wheelchair curling clinics at the Coyotes Curling Club in Tempe.
This undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a humpback chub in the Colorado River basin in Grand Canyon National Park in Ariz. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says on Wednesday, it has wrapped up its environmental review of a plan to help the humpback chub and other protected fish in northern Arizona.

US agency to fight invasive bass threatening humpback chub, other protected fish in Grand Canyon

It is the latest move in a battle to keep non-native smallmouth bass and green sunfish at bay in an area of the Colorado River below the Glen Canyon Dam.
Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Arizona.

Grijalva says Biden should get out of Presidential race

He is the second House Democrat to call for a new nominee.
Former Arizona Attorney General and Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard speaks surrounded by boxes of sheets with signatures that Make Elections Fair Arizona need to get their measure to qualify for the ballot at the state Capitol on Wednesday, July 3, 2024.

Arizona group aiming to institute open primaries submits signatures to get on the ballot

The group says they’ve gathered 584,124 signatures, far above the 383,923 threshold they needed to meet to get the measure on the ballot.
Deportation of I.W.W. Strikers from Bisbee, Arizona. From the Los Mineros Photograph Collection.

The Buzz: Revisiting an historic Arizona labor dispute

A look back 107 years to the deportation of pro-union miners from Arizona mines.
Since the year 2000, the Pima County Medical Examiner has received nearly 4,000 sets of human remains from people who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Arizona. Here, 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 the nonprofit Humane Borders sets out for migrants crossing the desert.

Smuggler receives 10 years after leaving woman in borderlands to die

A federal judge in Tucson sentenced a human smuggler to 10 years in prison for crimes that include an incident ending in the death of a young mother after he left her in the desert.
A crowd rallied together to support Arizona for Abortion Access as the organization submitted more than double the signatures needed to place the right to abortion access on the November ballot on Wednesday, July 3, 2024 in Phoenix.

Arizonans rally for reproductive rights: Record-breaking signatures to secure abortion access on ballot

Arizona for Abortion Access gathers over 823,000 signatures, doubling the required number, to place the right to abortion on the November ballot.
New episodes of ARIZONA ILLUSTRATED air Sundays at 6:30 p.m. on PBS 6.

Poetry Murals, Counseling, Plants & Owls

Episode 1040

Murals and Poetry – Beautifying the Ugliest Street in America

Murals and Poetry – Beautifying the Ugliest Street in America, 6 new murals in Tucson’s Speedway Corridor
Adelita Grijalva, Pima County Board of Supervisors Chair and Laura Conover, Pima County District Attorney and the Pima County Historic Courthouse in Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday, July 2. Grijalva and Conover held a press conference to talk about how Pima County would address the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson, which allows communities to fine and arrest houseless people for sleeping in public.

Pima County officials address challenges of homelessness following Supreme Court ruling

Local leaders highlight need for resources and humane solutions.
U.S. Attorney for Arizona Gary Restaino speaks during a press conference in July 2024.

Law enforcement partnerships and community help lead to convictions following threats

Federal and local law enforcement partnerships as well as community tips have helped against threats to the University of Arizona community and gender-based violence.
Katia Lamer, director for the Center for Multiscale Applied Sensing at the Brookhaven National Laboratory who leads the team that drives the mobile weather trucks on Tuesday, July 2, at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz. Lamer says the lack of climate data can make it difficult to quantify inequities in regional heat and air quality.

Arizona researchers tackle urban heat with innovative weather data collection

UA team partners with DOE’s Brookhaven Lab to study and mitigate extreme heat in the Southwest.

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