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An A-10 makes a pass over the runway at Tucson's Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. July 2021.

Tucson sues U.S. Air Force over PFAS contamination of city water

City files federal lawsuit to recover costs of PFAS water cleanup.
What planners want The Homing Project in Tucson to look like.

The Buzz: Catching up with some of our 2024 interviewees

We check back in on four stories we covered this year to see how they are doing.
Low unemployment and below-average inflation led to a strong economy for Arizona in 2024.

The Buzz: What will Arizona's economy be like in 2025?

We recap the year and take a look ahead with two economists.
Brad Biddlecome (left) and Mari White (right) stand outside of ArtWorks. ArtWorks is a day program where adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities can practice and learn art.

Artists from ArtWorks bring their ideas of home to "Won't You Be My Neighbor?".

Also on Arizona Spotlight: How the Tucson Bird Alliance will be making a difference in 2025; and actor and history buff Fred Pitts brings his one-man show "Aren't You..?" to Tucson.
<a href="https://map22.epa.gov/cimc/superfundZoom&params=0900684&15" target="_blank" style="font-weight:700;margin-right:6px">VIEW THIS MAP FULLSCREEN IN A NEW WINDOW</a>The ten square-mile Tucson International Airport Area Superfund Site is depicted using orange diagonal lines. The site includes Tucson International Airport, Sections of the Tohono O'odham Nation (San Xavier District), Tucson and South Tucson residential areas, and Air Force Plant #44 Raytheon Missile Systems Company (AFP44). The site has contaminated groundwater and soil from former aircraft and electronics manufacturing and aircraft maintenance, fire drill trainings, and the leaking of chemicals from unlined landfills.

New EPA rules phase out toxic chemicals TCE and limits PCE nationwide

Biden Administration’s EPA advances protections against carcinogens.
The entrance to the James E. Rogers College of Law on the University of Arizona campus.

University of Arizona Innocence Project awarded $1.5 million grant for wrongful convictions work

The federal funding will support DNA evidence analysis, helping to overturn wrongful convictions and train future advocates in Arizona.
People cycling, wrenching, playing, and relaxing in an illustration donated to the BICAS Art Auction. BICAS will auction the donated items on December 7th from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the BICAS shop.

How BICAS bridges bicycles, art and community.

Also on Arizona Spotlight: The story of Ittai Sopher, a former Arizona Spotlight producer, who became a "Jeopardy" champion; Marquez Price on the value of doing a digital detox; and "Stories that Soar!" features young kids thinking about big emotions.
New sign at Stone & Drachman in midtown Tucson.

New signs light up Miracle Mile and midtown Tucson

The neon creations recall the neighborhood's historic role in the area.

Tucson’s land-use codes hinder availability of transitional housing

Outdated land-use codes are stalling high-density housing projects for Tucson’s most vulnerable.
The city of Tucson is adding a four-block long protected bicycle lane to Stone Avenue that also includes pedestrian crosswalks and planted swales to harvest rainwater.

New protected bicycle lanes opening in downtown Tucson

Project on Stone Avenue also adds pedestrian crosswalks and landscaping
Kids from the cast of "Cinderella" from Spotlight Community Theater. "Cinderella" plays December 5th through the 8th at the theater.

Spotlight Community Theater's production of "Cinderella".

Also on Arizona Spotlight: A tale of true love that started in Tucson in 1943 that continues today; and historian David Leighton shares the history of the Reid Park Zoo..
Officials from local and federal agencies sign the Santa Cruz River Wildlife Partnership Memo of Understanding at the Historic Canoa Ranch in Green Valley, Ariz., on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. From left to right: Kevin Dahl, City of Tucson council member for Ward 3, Martha Williams, Director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Amy Lueders, Southwest Regional Director for the USFWS, Bruce Bracker, Santa Cruz County Vice-Chair and Supervisor for District 3 and Adelita Grijalva, Pima County Chair and Supervisor for District 5.

Santa Cruz River Partnership could create Arizona’s first urban wildlife refuge

US Fish and Wildlife Service, City of Tucson, Pima County and Santa Cruz County join forces to safeguard natural and cultural resources.
Paula at age 12. She hadn’t been able to start school until age 8, after the war ended.

Remembering Paula Bronstein, a survivor of the Holocaust.

Also on Arizona Spotlight: Beth Colburn Orozco shares the story of her search for the daughter she never knew.
A handgun and ammunition.

Illegal Tucson gun raffle results in seizure of 452 firearms

The Arizona Department of Gaming completed the investigation at the end of October.
An electric school bus parked outside of John B. Wright Elementary School on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. The Tucson Unified School District received $4 million from the Environmental Protection Agency to retire 10 diesel school buses, with ten electric school buses as an effort to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

TUSD gets $4 million EPA grant to replace diesel buses with electric fleet

Ten diesel buses are being replaced with electric models, reducing emissions and cutting costs.
The Tucson Roadrunners are still in the desert after an offseason of questions, changes, and uncertainty.

Tucson Roadrunners battle uncertainty, changes to keep professional hockey alive in Arizona

Questions surrounding the Roadrunners’ future in Arizona exploded after the relocation of the Coyotes’ hockey operations.

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