A Tucson shelter that usually houses up to 20 undocumented immigrants a night has seen no people this week. Since a policy change, immigrants are being sent to the Phoenix Greyhound station wearing ankle bracelets to track their location.
Downtown Tucson Partnership is one of many groups trying to help graduates in the area build startup companies in hopes that students will stay in town after college. As a result, the town’s downtown economy is slowly growing and steadily developing.
Markie Raymond, 15, found creativity and support at Imago Dei, a private, tuition-free school serving low-income families in Tucson, Ariz.
She is from Mexico, and she has held that distinction for almost 500 years.
Ella es de México y tiene más de 500 años. La influencia de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe se ha expandido por toda la region. Este año marca el aniversario número 120 de la coronación de su imagen.
An advocacy group is promoting the banning of exotic animals in circuses, but in Tucson, the show goes beyond animals.
Teenage girls train with firefighters and law enforcement officials at Camp Fury to gain confidence in pursuing male-dominated careers in public safety.
For nine years, Dean Andrews has been battling scorpions with golf clubs, beer bottles, army knives and boot heels, but not chemicals.
The Sun Link streetcar is one of the easiest ways to get around in Tucson. Lucia Hoffman selected a few stops to explore.
Chicken rentals are becoming more popular across the country. Rent the Chicken lets customers experience raising chickens without having to commit to keeping them long-term.
After 52 years in business, owner of West Boutique Florist, Josefina Prado Lizarraga, is closing the doors to her community flower shop.
Mount Hopkins has been home to the MMT Observatory for over three decades. Now, it is the 14th largest telescope in the world and the go-to telescope for scientists who want to see deep space.
Flowers and Bullets promotes self-sufficiency through art and agriculture in Barrio Centro in Tucson.
Diabetes is rampant among the Tohono O’odham, a nation in southwestern Arizona. They are taking the fight to the schools by bringing traditional foods into cafeteria lunches and planting gardens in the playground.
A smoke shop in downtown Tucson features the expected products, but that’s not all. Fine-art enthusiasts and musicians find a place there too — whether they smoke or not.
Families are given the opportunity to strengthen their relationship at Aviva Children’s Services. Many children that benefit from the center have undergone neglect, poverty or parental abuse.
Thousands of hikers, nature lovers and accidental visitors are exploring and rediscovering Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument since it was fully reopened to the public last September after largely being closed for more than a decade.
A vocational school is teaching unemployed people to become qualified entry-level cooks at local businesses. Caridad Community Kitchen offers a 10-week Culinary Training Program to Tucsonans who have little or no income and a passion for cooking.
To accommodate the growing numbers of cyclists, Tucson is working to improve infrastructures to be more biker-friendly.
The beer business in Tucson is bubbling, and the demand for craft beer has been so great that some new breweries have been overwhelmed.
On a recent afternoon I took the Sun Link streetcar from our newsroom at the University of Arizona, Tucson, downtown to photograph Tucsonans during their lunch break.
Homeowners turned a wall on their property, at a well-traveled intersection in Tucson, into a whiteboard to express their political beliefs.
Tucsonans are playing golf in the afternoon, eating outdoors and wearing sweaters in the evening as they enjoy one of the coolest Mays in decades.
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With the temperature rising past 100 degrees, Thursday was a good day for Tucson’s city pools to open.