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Farewell to Full Service

The A&M Shell Service Station on East Speedway has been owned by Arnold Mendez since 1965 and is one of the only full-service stations that still exists in Tucson.

Arizona Coyotes season-ticket holders comfort one another as time expires in team's NHL hockey game against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Tempe, Ariz. The Coyotes won 5-2. Coyotes owner Alex Meruelo agreed to sell the franchise's hockey operations to Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith, who intends to move the team to Salt Lake City.

Coyotes officially leaving Arizona for Salt Lake City

The NHL announced the team was sold on Thursday afternoon.

University of Arizona President Dr. Robert C. Robbins speaks during an Arizona Board of Regents meeting on April 18, 2024.

UA's fiscal woes improve: projected $52 million deficit after cuts

The announcement was made during the Arizona Board of Regents meeting on Thursday.

Martin Hutchins, an attorney with Reclaim Your Future legal coalition, speaks at a marijuana expungement event in Tucson, Ariz., on Thursday, April 18 2024.

City Prosecutor’s Office reports progress in expunging marijuana offenses

A new internship with the University of Arizona College of Law is helping move expungement filings faster.

George Alan Kelly listens to closing arguments Thursday, April 18, during the murder trial in the shooting death of Gabriel Cuen Buitimea. Kelly pled not guilty.

Jury starts deliberation in border rancher murder trial

George Alan Kelly has pled not guilty in the murder of a Mexican citizen.

A marker at the Park of the Canals in Mesa shows a map of the ancient canal system dug by the ancestral Sonoran Desert people.

Ancient farmers dug canals that shaped Phoenix's modern water system

Those ancient farmers have been referred to as the "Hohokam" but it’s not the name of a tribe or a people, and their O'Odham, Hopi, and Zuni descendants do not call them that.

The Mormon Battalion historic marker on Alameda Street in downtown Tucson.

The Buzz: Historic Markers Around the State

We wrap up a series of stories from around the state by telling three historic stories.

Researching asthma in traditional rural communities

Studies found that traditional farmers did not suffer from lung diseases usually caused by dust in the fields where they worked.

An Arizona State University hockey player is about to get on the ice at the Mountain America Community Iceplex on Wed., Feb. 21, 2024 in Tempe, AZ.

You just become instant best friends: Collegiate Women's Hockey in Arizona

We head behind the scenes with the ASU women's club hockey team, and also hear about their soon-to-launch counterpart at UA.

Effluent gushes out of the outfall, into the Santa Cruz River. The outfall of water is constantly flowing, but there is a diurnal fluctuation due to cyclical human water use.

Reviving the Santa Cruz: efforts to restore Arizona’s endangered river

Local groups push for Urban National Wildlife Refuge designation.

American Experience: Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy At Love Canal

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A still from Charlie Chaplin's 1931 film "City Lights".

See - and hear - Chaplin's "City Lights", presented by The Fox Tucson Theatre and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra.

Also on Arizona Spotlight: NPR's Sarah McCammon on her autobiographical memoir "Ex-vangelicals"; and a story about lessons in Little league and life from Steve Braun.