Arizona Daily Star reporter Henry Brean's top 5 stories of 2021
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We are sharing Arizona Daily Star reporters' and photographers' favorite work from 2021.
Henry Brean is a long-time reporter and Tucson native, who loves to meet interesting people and share stories about his hometown.
(5) updates to this series since
A brush with death sends Tucson-area woman in search of life-changing people from her past.
The newly finished downtown memorial uses modern-day petroglyphs to tell the victims' stories on the 10th anniversary of the Jan. 8 shooting in Tucson.
A red-tailed hawk was released back into the wild Thursday, a little over three weeks after it was saved by a Tucson man from the center median of Interstate 10.
Experts are tracking an unprecedented outbreak of blooms in strange locations on saguaros across Southern Arizona. Environmental stresses could be to blame.
A rural neighborhood in Vail, near Tucson, is worried about losing access as two new subdivisions threaten to gobble up a road residents have used for decades.


