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Is the pandemic changing our dreams?

Also on Arizona Spotlight: Adiba Nelson faces down 'Rona in 2020; and a profile of Flor de Nopal, an emerging star of the Tucson music scene.
Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry at his desk in 2019.

Pima County Board balks at Huckelberry contract

Three rookie board members want 2 weeks to think about it.
The view of the Tucson Skyline from A Mountain. Oct. 23, 2019.

News roundup: AZ leads nation in new COVID infections, changes coming Pima County bail and deportation rules

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Jan. 5.
A Centers for Disease Control illustration of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Arizona reports record deaths, leads nation in new case rate

Also a record number of hospital beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients statewide
A man sits on the curb at Santa Rita Park in Tucson.

Virus fears halt Arizona county's annual homeless count

Federal government allows opt out
Bars of a jail cell.

New Pima County attorney drops cash bail, some deportations

Laura Conover took office Monday, replacing Barbara LaWall.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey delivers his 2020 State of the State address, Jan. 13, 2020.

Ducey to deliver 'state of the state' speech virtually

The plan is to limit the spread of COVID-19
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Arizona reports more than 5,100 new COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths

More than 850 news cases in Pima County, nearly 80 in Cochise County
The Pima County Board of Supervisors meets at the County Administration Building in downtown Tucson.

Pima County's COVID-19 costs keep growing

Federal money for the pandemic has run out.
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 hits new daily high in COVID-19 cases, more than 2,200 in Pima County

Hospital beds also remain in very short supply
Kathy Hoffman won the election for Arizona superintendent for public instruction.

Ducey rejects request for 2-week school 'quarantine'

Governor rejects recommendation of state Superintendent of Public Instruction
Mural on the side of building in Shiprock, New Mexico, in the Nation Nation March 22, 2020.

Fast rollout of virus vaccine trials reveals tribal distrust

Suspicion difficult to overcome
This stretch of the Colorado River near Moab, Utah is currently in extreme drought.

National Weather Service: Dryness defined 2020 in Southwest

Record or near-record dryness across Arizona and the region
Some restaurants opened for dine-in service on Monday, while others said they plan to wait until they feel it's safe for staff and customers.

Arizona increases minimum wage to $12.15 an hour

AZ one of 21 states with increased minimum wages in 2021
A handout image from Banner Health shows a health care worker in one of the hospital's COVID-19 units.

Health officials: Arizona COVID-19 triage care again likely

Surging Coronavirus cases crowding intensive care units.
COVID19

Arizona starts 2021 with over 10K virus cases, 151 deaths

Surge continues into the new year with hospital beds in short supply

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