Hotel on the rise at Tucson’s Uptown projectFor Star subscribers: Tempo by Hilton Tucson Uptown, where Foothills Mall once was, will have 144 rooms.
- Gabriela Rico
For Star subscribers: Belvedere Terrace, 4431 E. 22nd St., has 72 unit with 22 designated for formerly homeless seniors.
- Gabriela Rico
For Subscribers: Nittetsu Mining will invest up to $27 million in the future Oracle Ridge mine near the Pinal County line.
- Gabriela Rico
For Star Subscribers: Analysts say rising living costs for utilities, groceries and gasoline, combined with workplace reductions in Arizona and fueling the uptick.
- Tim Steller
For Star subscribers: In 2024, protests against Israel's war in Gaza were common at the University of Arizona. The breakup of an encampent ended that and shielded UA students from disfavored speech.
- Gabriela Rico
For Star Subscribers: Renewed interest in shopping centers on major streets led to the sale of Broadway Star Shopping Center, on East Broadway near South Prudence Road.
- Gabriela Rico
For Star subscribers: Vacant grocery stores and big-box retail spots around Tucson could become apartments with retail on the ground floor, as zoning changes and high construction costs push landlords to rethink space.
For Star subscribers: Some ICE detainees in Arizona are being held for weeks in crowded ICE centers meant for stays of no more than 72 hours.
University of Arizona faculty leaders and governance groups are opposing a proposed change to the university’s email policy, which allows internal inspection, monitoring or disclosure of employee email communications if they think there’s “reasonable suspicion” of violations of law or UA policy. Faculty leaders say this will lead to increased surveillance, threaten academic freedom, and create a sort of “police state” at the UA.
For Star subscribers: Chuck George was a well-liked local weatherman when a mental-health crisis led him to leave in 2013. Now he's back in Tucson, his true home, teaching in high school and on TV.
Three shops anchored by a Shake Shake will open on North Campbell Avenue south of East Fort Lowell Road.
For Star subscribers: As border wall construction accelerates, ecologists are cataloging wildlife on both sides of the international boundary and tracking the movements of rare species like jaguar and ocelot in Southern Arizona.
While it's clear Lake Mead will get less water from Lake Powell this year, it's not clear how that cut will affect how much water Arizona and the other two Lower Colorado River Basin states will get from Mead as a result.
The federal government's move to slash releases of Colorado River water from Lake Powell to Lake Mead takes the region one step closer to litigation over the century-old Colorado River Compact.
For Star Subscribers: Soldier's Best Friend works with trainers to prepare shelter dogs for pairing with veterans.
For generations, the presence of Hoover Dam and its massive power plant routinely translated into cheap electricity for cities, farmers, irrigation districts and other major electrical energy users in Arizona and the Southwest.
The University of Arizona is developing “smart bandages” to detect infections after surgeries — technology that could also help Southern Arizona’s high rates of diabetes patients. It’s part of a UA priority to combine AI with health care.
For Star subscribers: If the University of Arizona renames the Cesar Chavez building, it should also rename the Kemper Marley building, due to his alleged link to the killing of reporter Don Bolles.
For Star subscribers: Sen. Ruben Gallego is not accused of any sexual misconduct of the sort that caused his friend Rep. Eric Swalwell to resign. But his association with Swalwell fits his politics.
For Star Subscribers: Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center is set to open next year on North Campbell Avenue, the group's first location outside of Maricopa County.
Leaders of the Tohono O'odham Nation are looking at legal options to fight U.S. Customs and Border Protection's plans for not just one, but two 30-foot steel-bollard barriers along the Nation's southern boundary with Mexico, despite the tribe's decades of work with CBP on alternatives to a wall.
For Star subscribers: Tucson Police Chief Monica Prieto is working to stabilize a department that was shaken for a few years, while advancing its treatment of employees and use of technology.
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For Star subscribers: Sen. Mark Kelly, a Tucson Democrat, voted for the first time to block the sale of arms to Israel, in a sign of shifting public opinion. Also, Gallego is under the gun, and more.
A map published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reveals plans to add a second border wall along much of the U.S.-Mexico border, includng nearly all of Arizona's southern boundary.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was among two cabinet secretaries to visit the Tucson area this week. Plus: Ciscomani does a light interview, and more.
Tucson Water violated state requirements for two straight years, limiting how much of its drinking water is lost or not properly accounted for after all of its deliveries were totaled and analyzed.
Changes to the admissions process haven’t been made clear within the University of Arizona, nor to the public, and the revised system puts non-traditional students at a disadvantage, critics say.
For Subscribers: BirdieVee Coffee is open weekdays from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the lobby of the tower at 5151 E. Broadway.
For Star subscribers: The planned new immigration detention center in Marana demands an active response from town officials. It's indefensible to go along and ignore the abuses at these ICE centers.
For Star subscribers: Cielo Sonora, within the master planned The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Dove Mountain, in the Tortolita Mountain foothills, will break ground this summer.