Compared to last year, the 2022 monsoon has been mild. But there's still time to catch up.
Students returned to Orange Grove Middle School Monday morning, reuniting with friends and entering new classes on August 8, 2022. According to Julie Farbarik, public information officer, approximately 5,200 students returned to classes at four elementary schools, two middle schools and one …
Students returned to Pueblo High School for the first day of classes on Thursday, August 4. All 89 schools, which consist of 45 elementary schools, 11 middle, 14 k-8 and 14 high schools, in the Tucson Unified School District opened for the school year.
About 10,200 elementary school students returned to the Vail Unified School District on Monday for the 2022 school year. Ocotillo Ridge Elementary School was one of the 15 schools in the district that welcomed students back. Teachers and administrators rolled out a red carpet and cheered stu…
After several years spent stuck in the rough, an abandoned Oro Valley golf is now the Vistoso Trails Nature Preserve.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department's School Resource Unit is hosting an Active Shooter Preparedness Workshop at Pima College North Campus.
The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in a landmark decision Friday morning. Abortion-rights activists protested in front of the Evo A. DeConcini U.S. Courthouse at W. Congress Street and S. Granada Ave. The crowd also marched through the streets of downtown, finally dissipating just befo…
The Pipeline Fire began 6 miles north of Flagstaff, Ariz. on Sunday June 12 and is currently 22,888 acres with 31% containment and the Haywire Fire is estimated at 5,065 acres with no containment. The Pipeline fire was spotted by a fire lookout at 10:15 a.m. and was pushed more than 15 miles…
Don Guerra, owner of Barrio Bread, wins James Beard Award for outstanding baker on Monday. This is the third nomination for Guerra.
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…
Northwest Medical Center Houghton is nearly ready for patients at 2200 S. Houghton Road in Tucson.
The University of Arizona Veterans Education and Transition Services Center held a graduation ceremony on the UA campus on May 5, 2022. Sixty veteran students will graduate and those in attendance received a stole featuring the colors of the branch in which they served.
La 40ª Conferencia Internacional del Mariachi se lleva a cabo en el Centro de Convenciones de Tucsón hasta el 8 de mayo. La conferencia tiene como objetivo fomentar los valores tradicionales de la música de mariachi y el baile folclórico.
The 40th annual La Frontera's Tucson International Mariachi Conference is taking place at the Tucson Convention Center until May 8. The conference aims to foster traditional values of mariachi music and baile folklórico.
Demonstrators marched through downtown Tucson on Tuesday, May 3, over the leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that would throw out the court’s Roe v. Wade ruling. Protesters went through downtown to North Fourth Ave. Tucson joined other protests around the country.
The most recent photo galleries by Arizona Daily Star staff photographer Mamta Popat, who joined the newspaper in 2003. Popat is a multiple-award winner and the newsroom's certified drone pilot.
High winds and low water pressure hampered fire crews battling a large blaze at a recycling facility on Tucson's south side Monday.
Joe Pagac is painting his largest mural to date at the Zion City Church. Pagac says he was approached by church officials and went back and forth with a design for six months. The Lion of Judah is the logo, there will be desert scenery and the colors of the mural are black, white, pink, purp…
The group, Save the Heart of Reid Park, provided a donation to hire an International Society of Arboriculture certified arborist to assess the health of the trees on and near Barnum Hill at Gene C. Reid Park, and the landscape crew to cut away dead branches on the Aleppo pine trees.
The Orchard River Garden Park, located in the Old Fort Lowell Neighborhood, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Orchard River was designed by Tucson architect Robert Swaim. The community includes 136 one and two-story town homes.