U of A backs off selling Folklore Preserve property that was donatedThe University of Arizona has reversed plans to sell the Arizona Folklore Preserve property, opting instead to lease it to the preserve for five years at $300 monthly, aiming to continue live performances despite financial challenges.
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Independent analyses say Rep. Juan Ciscomani has been bipartisan and effective. But those measures prize small moves and miss the big moments, when Ciscomani sided with Trump.
- Gabriela Rico
For Star subscribers: Park Place, a long-time shopping mall on Tucson's east side, is for sale.
- Emily Bregel
A Phoenix man deported to Equatorial Guinea was hospitalized after passing out in a police-station cell, where he's been held "incommunicado" for two weeks following his arbitrary arrest, lawyers said.
- Tim Steller
For Star subscribers: When you ponder it, the proposal is paradoxical: Tucson is being asked to support a new golf course to help solve its groundwater problem. In reality, that’s the Air Force’s job
- Tony Davis
For Star subscribers: The U.S. Air Force is separating its efforts to address PFAS contamination of Tucson groundwater at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base from a nonprofit group's bid to get a golf course built on the base in return for financing the cleanup.
- Tony Davis
For Star subscribers: A non-profit group seeking city approval of a development at Davis-Monthan that includes a gold course might been to 'secure' millions of dollars for PFAS cleanup, a Tucson official says.
For the first time, Tucson will be dipping into what amounts to its water "savings account" — the CAP water it has stored underground — in 2027 due to impending shortages in new CAP deliveries from the Colorado River.
Flush with billions from the One Big Beautiful Bill, federal immigration officials are preparing to spend potentially more than $500 million in Arizona alone on planned checkpoint expansions and three new Border Patrol stations, including a new 87-acre station planned in Three Points, just e…
Thanks to the efforts of a University of Arizona grad, “Weird Al” Yankovic now has an asteroid named after him. Yankovic is playing a concert here Sunday.
For Star subscribers: It’s too early to tell, but many Arizona wineries could leave fruit on the vines again this year. Here’s why.
For Star subscribers: The Tucson City Council made a bigger decision than they needed to when they chose to pause all park renaming efforts. They could simply say no to the one they were faced with.
For Star subscribers: From “Evil Torta” to “Approachable,” Tucson’s street corners are populated with some mystifying campaign signs. Here’s a guide.
More than 350,000 acres of national forest in Southern Arizona would be open to road building for the first time in 25 years under a Trump Administration proposal to repeal an earlier rule that led to the ban on new roads in 44 million acres nationwide.
For Star subscribers: Tucson Unified School District is likely months away from deciding which schools are being considered for closure or consolidating, but an analysis of district data by the Star identifies nine campuses struggling with finances and enrollment.
For Star subscribers: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes got pushback for requesting a moratorium on new data centers in Arizona. She’s just voicing people’s wish for some control over the AI future.
For Star subscribers: Teens are increasingly turning to AI chatbots for mental health and relationship advice, with nearly 20% of adolescents using them in 2025, according to a JAMA Pediatrics study — though a majority keep it secret.
For Star subscribers: A study of corals dating back centuries in the Galapagos Islands found that the global climate phenomenon known as El Niño was nearly 40% stronger during the past 40 years than at any time in the past millennium.
For Star subscribers: Some see Tucson’s streetcar as an expensive toy, but it serves as relied-on transit at the U of A. To fulfill its potential, it must become more reliable with short waits.
Subscriber only: Scientists still are piecing together exactly what happened in the recent deadly landslide and floods in Nepal.
For Star subscribers: The hate-influenced double-killing last week in Tucson sheds light on the ongoing challenges with crime in the city.
For Star subscribers: Tohono O'odham Tribal Chairman Verlon Jose says federal border wall construction plan is a violation of tribal sovereignty, costly and unnecessary.
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New Colorado River cuts sound substantial. But because they’re measured against legal allocations rather than recent use, the actual water savings could be considerably smaller.
For Star subscribers: Venture-N, the Tucson gay bar attacked Monday, doesn’t stand out to outsiders. To regulars, it’s a laid back second home where ‘bears’ down beers.
For Star subscribers: Video has shown one or possibly two female jaguars roaming the wilderness in Sonora, just five miles south of the U.S. border, researchers say.
For Star subscribers: In the face of worrisome local economic indicators, Tucson and Pima County are far from showing desperation. In fact, they are being choosy as they recalibrate our economic-development efforts.
For Star subscribers: Tucson is nowhere to be found in the inaugural Michelin Guide Southwest. In fact, In fact, only one of the 19 Arizona restaurants that made the cut is from outside of Scottsdale and Phoenix.
For Star subscribers: Several University of Arizona researchers are connected to NASA’s latest space telescope. It launched from Kennedy Space Center early Sunday morning.
For Star subscribers: Sometimes troublemakers on a bus get kicked out and that’s the end of it. Tucson is building up a transit-safety program to address the other times — assaults and other conflicts.
A University of Arizona faculty leader says ICE should have “no place on our campus” and that she likes the idea of the university becoming a “sanctuary campus” as a safe space for all, local or international and from all kinds of statuses, origins and identities.