Wright Flight, a nonprofit program in Tucson, uses airplanes and flying experience as a reward for kids who get good grades in school and remain drug free.
Mexican produce companies complain that as the United States has stepped up customs enforcement, long waits for their trucks at the border are compromising the freshness of fruit and vegetables — and thus the companies’ profits.
Twenty-one firefighters responded early Sunday morning to a fire at 128 S. Herbert Ave., near East Broadway Boulevard, in Tucson.
On the San Xavier Indian Reservation of the Tohono O’odham Nation, the American Smelting and Refining Company, which once mined for copper on tribal land, has begun a multimillion-dollar effort to clean up the mining site and restore it for new uses.
The naming of the transgender advocate, Amanda Simpson, to a senior technical adviser position in the Commerce Department reverberated among some people not because of her new placement, but because of her past labors for Tucson’s transgender community.
A Tucson teacher, Dana Isles, recently accepted the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, singled out for her work teaching math to kindergartners at Pueblo Gardens Elementary School.
On Christmas Day, Robert Park, a Tucson-based evangelical minister, entered North Korea from China armed with a set of demands for the country’s leader, Kim Jong-il. Once over the border, though, Park vanished.
International students, who make up almost 1 in 10 students at UA, both stand out and blend in. One thing that unites them is a desire to participate in American culture.
A border gate has long allowed members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, which spans the United States and Mexico, to pass freely between the countries, largely undisturbed by U.S. officials. But some tribal members say that in recent years, crossing has gotten more difficult.
Five people have been displaced by fires in the foothills and midtown neighborhoods, fire officials say.
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