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U.S. Border Patrol agents near Sasabe, Arizona, March 22.

New report cast doubt on Border Patrol search and rescue efforts for migrants

No More Deaths analyzed hundreds of distress calls made to aid groups and 911 dispatchers requesting help from the agency
Downtown Tucson, Oct. 23, 2019.

News roundup: Environmentalists assess border wall damage, state superintendent calls for better school funding

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Feb. 3.
The Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona provides food to about 200,000 people each year.

Rights advocates applaud Biden's planned review of public charge rule

The 2019 change made it harder for immigrants to obtain visas and green cards if they used, or might use, government assistance
Indigenous-led protesters walk along a construction line in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Sept. 2020.

Border wall scars: 'It feels like if someone got a knife and dragged it across my heart.'

Tribal leaders and Borderlands communities reflect on their fruitless struggle to stop the wall.
An empty classroom at Gridley Middle School in Tucson. November 2020.

State's top educator wants steady funding for education

Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman wants lawmakers to dip into the rainy-day fund.
Downtown Tucson, Oct, 23, 2019.

News roundup: State looks to increase vaccine usage, COVID cases on decline in AZ

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Feb. 2.
A Centers for Disease Control illustration of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations declining in Arizona

Arizona still has the third-worst diagnosis rate in the country
Former Arizona legend and NFL star Tedy Bruschi

Bruschi returns to Arizona as senior football advisor

Former All-American and NFL star returns to Tucson
A health care worker holds a vial of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine at a distribution event at Tucson Medical Center on Jan. 15, 2021.

State wants more COVID-19 vaccines used

Health officials want to open more mass vaccination sites.
Downtown Tucson, Oct. 23, 2019.

News roundup: Virus mutations emerge in AZ, Ducey warns of dwindling vaccine supply

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Feb. 1.
Annual immunizations against COVID variants might be necessary.

Virus variant challenge could mean more shots

COVID-19 mutations might require annual immunizations as with the flu.
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S.

Arizona reports more than 3,700 new COVID-19 cases, 4 deaths

Daily case numbers continue to decline, but vaccine shortage continues
COVID19

CDC data shows Arizona continues to lead the country in average COVID-19 cases per capita

The state's daily report shows 5,025 new COVID-19 cases and 22 more deaths
Economist George Hammond talks about the state of the Arizona economy.

UA research: Arizona economy recovering with big variances

Most of the recent job growth has been in Phoenix
Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward during an interview with Arizona 360 on Nov. 10, 2020.

Arizona Republican Party chair rejects election audit call on her reelection

Kelli Ward was a leader in the push to audit and overturn November 2020 election results
Coronavirus in Southern Arizona: An Arizona 360 Special

Arizona reports 5,119 additional COVID-19 cases, 76 deaths

Despite slowing case numbers, Arizona remains the state with the worst diagnosis rate in the country

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