Inaugural Michelin SW guide snubs Tucson restaurantsFor 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.
- Tim Steller
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.
- Prerana Sannappanavar
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.
- Tim Steller
For Star subscribers: The controversy over a Pima County grant to a small nonprofit shows how Tucson politics are changing, as a new political group challenges the dominant network.
- Gabriela Rico
For Star Subscribers: Chorost & Co., curator of pre-owned jewelry and luxury watches, will open at 5615 E. River Road, near Craycroft Road, on Sept. 4.
- Tony Davis
For Star subscribers: The continued run of record low water flowing from the Colorado River into the nation's two biggest reservoirs has major ramifications for water supplies in Tucson and across the entire Southwest.
- Tim Steller
For Star subscribers: Julissa Salazar, the slain 19-year-old University of Arizona student should have had the chance to get help from those who know domestic violence and how much danger she was in.
Homeowners in Cochise County’s Willcox Basin are facing widespread well failures due to sediment buildup and ground subsidence caused by excessive groundwater pumping, leading many to rely on costly water hauling services for drinking water.
For Star subscribers: Even while the University of Arizona says selectiveness has a role in the school's shrinking enrollment, the acceptance rate for fall 2026 increased compared to the last two years as applications drop, data show.
For Star subscribers: A trio of recent occurrences has left the district, created by voters in 1999 to oversee investment in downtown Tucson, to contemplate downsizing its potential projects until at least later this year.
For Star subscribers: There are no alternatives to constable Francisco Lopez or candidate Gerard Acuña on the November general election ballot. Here's why that's a problem for Pima County voters.
For Star subscribers: Lisa Scott, an Esmond Station K-8 teacher who became a quadruple amputee after sepsis, was named Arizona's 2027 Teacher of the Year, the Vail Unified School District's first honoree in 35 years.
Federal officials have closed roads in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument as construction of new border wall segments ramps up along the Arizona-Mexico border.
Starter homes are making a comeback in Tucson, with new models starting at $249,000 as builders respond to affordability challenges.
For Star subscribers: People in Tucson and across the country say they want to “abolish ICE,” but what would that really entail? Here’s a deal that might work.
The University of Arizona is expected to see another significant decline in first-year undergraduate enrollment this fall, according to two sources familiar with the projections.
The Arizona Department of Water Resources is pushing to slash the Willcox basin's chronic overuse of ancient groundwater by half between now and 2075.
For Star Subscribers: JPMorgan Chase Bank, which operated a branch inside the Fry’s grocery store on Campbell Avenue and Irvington Road, has opened a standalone branch.
For Star subscribers: The reconstruction of Grant Road is helping kill off Tucson businesses already weakened by street drug addiction and the sumer doldrums.
Unseen when you go downtown Tucson is a vast effort to keep the area active and attractive. The mass shooting there showed how one key misstep can undermined it all.
The newest entertainment venue to enter the Tucson market is expected to open next year.
After nine people were shot near Tucson’s Gibson Food Hall, columnist Tim Steller reflects on downtown’s progress and why he still believes in its future.
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For Star Subscribers: Provident Industrial bought 10 acres of land on the southwest corner of Valencia and Palo Verde Roads to build Valencia Airport Center, a 163,000-square-foot distribution facility.
In April 2023, a recently elected member of the South Tucson City Council laid out a vision for the string of run-down motels and apartments along the I-10 frontage road on the southern edge of the city.
Two pregnant women in immigration custody in Arizona were hospitalized this month in separate incidents. In one, a woman was helicoptered to a Tucson hospital after what she called an assault by a Border Patrol agent.
Tucson Water could lose as little as 6% to as much as nearly 85% of its total Colorado River-based drinking water supplies, depending on how big a cut the entire Central Arizona Project takes from the depleted river, Arizona State University researchers have found.
For Star Subscribers: The new store will be inside an 18,000 square-foot space at Tucson Place Shopping Center, on East Wetmore Road and North First Avenue.
For Star subscribers: A critical minerals mine in the Patagonia Mountains received final approval from federal regulators, but the mine's construction schedule has slipped and costs have soared by more than $1 billion.
For Star subscribers: The University of Arizona is pushing back on a federal plan critics say will give political appointees more authority to suspend or terminate research funds, undermine merit-based peer review and shift decision-making away from scientifically-grounded evaluation.