Monsoon 2026 is only a few days old and already has dropped measurable rainfall over the area including a band of storms June 17, 2026, Tucson, Ariz.
Mamta Popat
Photojournalist
About
Mamta Popat has been a photojournalist with the Arizona Daily Star since 2003. She covers a wide range of topics including daily life, news, border issues and Big-12 sports. She's the only vegetarian in the photo department.
The Bighorn Fire consumed much of the Santa Catalina mountain range after an innocuous lightning strike late on June 5, 2020. It became a dail…
Demonstrators held signs and chanted at the Project Blue data center construction site, at S. Houghton Road and E. Brekke Road, on May 28, 202…
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 Stad…
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…
The Center for Creative Photography, CCP, at the University of Arizona announced the acquisition of archives from nine photographers including…
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 Indianapoli…
Protesters in Tucson joined the more than 3,000 “No Kings” demonstrations planned across the country on Saturday, March 28, 2026, to push back…