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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.

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Poetry Murals, Counseling, Plants & Owls

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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.

U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development administrator Andy Berke and Patrick Ledger, Arizona Generation and Transmission Cooperatives’ CEO, cut the ribbon to a new battery energy storage system in Sahuarita, AZ on Tuesday, July 2, 2024.

$55.2 million to boost clean energy in rural Arizona with new battery systems

Federal funding will support three new battery energy storage facilities, lower energy bills, create jobs, and promote sustainability in cities like Sahuarita.

Why "Breaking Bread" is a different approach to political discussion.

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