Close to 2,000 high school students will learn about different trades such as carpentry, electrical work and welding in the construction industry over a 2-day event at the U of A Tech Park at The Bridges. Student events are scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 21 and Thursday, Oct. 22, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Tucson Meet Yourself festival returns to downtown Tucson for its 53rd year. The three-day folk festival is free to attend and features 50 food vendors, performances and folk art.
Ten months after the city of Tucson started renovations at the Tucson House, a public housing complex for older adults, the 24 apartments on the 15th floor are completed. Tenants can start to move in on Friday Oct 16, 2026.
The Tohono O'odham Nation is preparing for potential confrontations between tribal members defending their land and federal contractors who will soon be uprooting thousands of cacti, including sacred saguaros, to make way for border-wall construction that's fiercely opposed by the tribe.
Arizona women's basketball hosted a local media day on September 30, 2026. After an open practice, players and head coach Becky Burke talked with the media about the upcoming season.
Images from this year's monsoon action around Tucson by the Arizona Daily Star photography staff.
Former Wildcat Steve Kerr and head coach Tommy Lloyd came together to talk about their time living and traveling abroad in “Lessons from Around the World” in Bear Down Gymnasium on September 17, 2026. The purchase of the tickets support the Kerr Family Endowment for Humanities Abroad, which …
Hundreds gathered in Catalina Park to honor and remember Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42 and Cameron Davis Capara, 33, who were shot and killed in the parking lot of the Venture-N bar early Monday.
Atlanta Falcons running back and the second-highest paid NFL running back in league history, Bijan Robinson, returns home to Salpointe Catholic High School for his jersey retirement ceremony. His former high school coach, Dennis Bene, made a speech about Robinson’s work ethic and drive befor…
Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42 and Cameron Davis Capara, 33, were shot and killed in the parking lot of the Venture-N bar early Monday. A gunman killed the two men and also died, Tucson police say.
Arizona Daily Star photographers capture summer heat across Southern Arizona.
Community has been central to everything KXCI does, a testament to its tagline. “Tucson’s Community Radio,. which has been its guiding light since the station went on air in 1983.
Nine people were critically injured and a man was taken into custody in a shooting in downtown Tucson early Sunday morning.
For the month of July, guests can watch animals crush, roll, lick and engulf watermelons during Watermelon Wednesdays at the Reid Park Zoo. Summer hours are 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. daily.
The Bighorn Fire consumed much of the Santa Catalina mountain range after an innocuous lightning strike late on June 5, 2020. It became a daily spectacle – visible from the Tucson area – as it methodically marched from West to East, finally enveloping burned and unburned Ponderosa pines arou…
Demonstrators held signs and chanted at the Project Blue data center construction site, at S. Houghton Road and E. Brekke Road, on May 28, 2026. Beale Infrastructure, the company behind Project Blue, was approved for permits to drill two wells on the property.
About 16,000 people applied for a chance to come to the Tucson stop of Antiques Roadshow.
No. 1 Salpointe Catholic defeated No. 2 Mica Mountain, 4-2, in the 4A state championship game Monday evening at Rita Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium in Tucson.
Two dozen volunteers came together to work on a home in the Angels Crossing neighborhood for a Vietnam veteran and his wife, as part of a work day sponsored by The Home Depot Foundation and Habitat for Humanity Tucson on April 23, 2026.
The Center for Creative Photography, CCP, at the University of Arizona announced the acquisition of archives from nine photographers including former Arizona Daily Star photo editor Jack Dykinga, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who is a renown nature photographer.
Fans waited in the heat outside of McKale Center on April 5, 2026 to greet the Arizona men's basketball team as they returned from Indianapolis after their Final Four loss to Michigan the night before.
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