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Rows of cots are set up inside the Benedictine Monastery in February 2019. The monastery served as a temporary shelter for migrant families seeking asylum.

Pima County wants state money for migrant transportation

The county wants the state to pay for transporting asylum seekers.

A bundle of syringes at a COVID-19 vaccination site at Tucson Medical Center. January 2021.

No FEMA vaccination pod for Pima County

County plans six smaller mobile sites instead.

Unaccompanied minors apprehended by Customs and Border Protection line up inside a temporary processing facility in Donna, Texas on March 17, 2021.

U.S. Border Patrol's new migrant facility in Tucson takes form

The agency told city officials a tent-like facility to house asylum seekers is slated for a plot just outside Tucson.

A box holds vails of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine at the company's manufacturing facility.

Pima County stops using Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine

The county is following CDC and FDA recommendations.

The sun shines harshly behind a saguaro cactus.

Low saguaro reproduction numbers at national park in Tucson

Drought cycle that dates to the mid-1990s thought to be responsible

COVID-19 vaccinations are administered in a drive-up facility at Banner South. From January 25, 2021.

Pima County opens up COVID-19 vaccine eligibility

Beginning April 5, anyone 16 or older is eligible for a vaccine.

Sunlink bus sign announcing that masks are required to ride.

Pima County keeps mask mandate

County officials say the Governor has overreached his power.

A sign outside Banner - University Medicine North in Tucson for the hospital's COVID-19 vaccine distribution site. Dec. 17, 2020.

Pima County gets FEMA COVID-19 vaccine site

The state changes course on allowing FEMA to come in.

Gov. Doug Ducey at July 30 update on Arizona's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ducey reopens bars, lifts mask mandates

Tucson keeps mask rule under city charter

A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine during a mobile event run by Pima County and Tucson Medical Center outside St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church on March 6, 2021.

Pima County continues to see vaccine demand outpace supply

The county's chief medical officer discusses the county's coordination with the state.

Pima County expands COVID-19 vaccines to those age 16 and older

The county expansion comes with some restrictions.

A COVID-19 vaccination site set up on the University of Arizona Mall. January 2021.

Ducey offers to "revisit" FEMA vaccine offer

Pima County Supervisors support federal offer.

Governor Doug Ducey addresses members of the media in front of a portion of border wall near the Douglas Municipal Airport on March 19, 2021.

In Douglas visit, Gov. Doug Ducey calls rising apprehensions a 'man-made crisis' by Biden administriaton

Ducey toured the U.S.-Mexico border with Florida Senator Rick Scott and local law officers, aid groups say they were left out.

An electronic sign notifies the public that appointments are required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at one of Pima County's vaccination sites. January 2021.

AZ turns down FEMA COVID vaccine sites, Pima County unhappy

The county is still trying to get the federal help.

Pima County considers requiring vaccines for employees

Supervisors discuss possible mandate.

A dose of the COVID-19 vaccine just as it is about to be administered during a vaccination event at Tucson Medical Center. January 2021.

Four cases of UK variant detected in Pima County

Cullen says there's no sign it's spreading rapidly here.

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