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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.

Deaths along the Arizona-Mexico border are on pace to set a new record

More than 140 sets of remains have been recovered from the Arizona desert so far this year.
The bridge over the Pantano Wash, at Broadway and Pantano on Tucson's east side.

Dozens of Arizona bridges in “poor” condition

New federal infrastructure dollars could help.
This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV).

Arizona reports another 2,582 COVID-19 cases, 12 more deaths

Arizona has now hit a week of more than 2,000 new COVID-19 cases a day.
A sign on the campus of the University of Arizona directs visitors to a COVID-19 testing site, August 2020.

UA to open with in-person classes

Arizona requirements keep the university from mandating vaccines and masks.
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 more than 2,000 COVID-19 cases for 6th day

Virus-related hospitalizations continue to climb with 1,380 as of Sunday.
A flag flies by the dome of the U.S. Capitol.

Foothills want out of current congressional and legislative districts

Residents gave the Independent Redistricting Commission an earful.
COVID19

Arizona reports over 2K more COVID cases on 4th straight day

Seven-day rolling average of daily new cases nearly doubled over the past two weeks.
A staff member with the Casa Alitas Welcome Center gives an orientation to migrants who have just been brought from Nogales by the Border Patrol. Migrants will stay at the center for a few days while working out travel arrangements to connect with family in the U.S.

Migrants from Texas being flown to Tucson

As Rio Grande Valley surpasses capacity, Pima County administrator says some migrants and asylum seekers are coming to Tucson.
Twenty-dollar bills.

Local governments set rental assistance record

Tucson and Pima County teamed up to distribute federal aid money.
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 health officials report 2,826 new cases of COVID-19, 42 deaths

Transmission of COVID-19 is high in nearly every Arizona county, including Pima, according to CDC
Amber Ortega

Indigenous protester arrested at border wall site set to head to trial

Amber Ortega was arrested for physically blocking construction machinery at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument last September
A group of migrants and Border Patrol agents along the border fence in Yuma County. June 2021.

As Biden continues to use Title 42, ACLU resumes lawsuit against it

The controversial protocol allows border officers to turn migrants back across the border into Mexico without processing.
An aerial view of downtown Phoenix.

US to probe Phoenix police over excessive force allegations

Dept. of Justice will also examine whether officers have engaged in discriminatory policing, retaliation
Lake Pleasant, north of Phoenix, is a major reservoir for Colorado River water. Each summer the lake is pumped down to send water to Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima counties. July 2021

Water cutbacks coming to Arizona

A decades-long drought means less water from the Colorado River.
Illustration of coronavirus structure.

Arizona health officials report 2,289 new cases of COVID-19, 11 deaths

Hospitalizations at highest level since February
Guns on display in a Tucson store.

Tucson homicide rate soars

The increase is part of a national trend.

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