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A wheelchair made to function on rough terrain.

Accessibility in Southern Arizona

While most Tucsonans have thoughts on roads and sidewalk conditions, this week The Buzz examines how those conditions can be a true roadblock.

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.

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic

This week, The Buzz examines what researchers and others in Arizona have learned in the years since the first cases emerged.

Spring 2020 University of Arizona graduates pose for photos at Old Main.

Job hunting and hiring in Southern Arizona

This week, The Buzz examines the difficulty that employers are facing in hiring workers and talks to job seekers about their hunts for work.

The streetcar passes people eating dinner on 4th Avenue on April 5, 2015.

The future of trains, infrastructure and the RTA in Southern Arizona

This week, The Buzz is all about transportation.

Two Southern Arizona leaders on the year ahead

This week, The Buzz speaks with Tucson Mayor Regina Romero and Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway.

Getting outdoors in the Arizona winter

This week, The Buzz heads outside with visitors and locals alike.

The dome atop the Arizona Capitol Museum at the State Capitol in Phoenix. January 2021.

Legislative leaders on the 2022 session

The Buzz examines how water, education, the budget and more could define the session.

Looking back at 2021

The Buzz looks back at some of the staff’s favorite stories of the last year.

'Fearless' student podcasters explore big issues

Meet some of the students and the teacher behind Tucson's City High Radio.

These endangered jaguars are part of a breeding population located near in Sonora, Mexico .

Wildlife of Southern Arizona

This week The Buzz talks with experts studying bats, Gila Topminnows and jaguars, and others who focus on how animals move from place-to-place.

Housing units going in near First and Fort Lowell in Tucson, July 2018.

The rising cost and need for housing in Arizona

This week, The Buzz examines some of the factors behind the continued rise in housing costs.

Flowers and Bullets is a grassroots movement that uses art and food to talk about larger issues, like gentrification or pollution, affecting Barrio Centro. This mural welcomes people visiting their Midtown Farm housed at the former Julia Keen Elementary School.

The economics and community of food

The Buzz examines how food moves through the economy and how it brings people together.

U.S. Army Soldiers out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, arrive at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Nov. 2, 2018, as part of Operation Faithful Patriot.

Veterans facing deportation, veterans starting businesses, and digitizing the military’s most common aircraft

This week on The Buzz, stories from the armed forces.

Tucson election ends with a sweep for Democrats and a higher minimum wage

The Buzz examines the results of the city’s election and what the process could mean for the future of the city’s politics.

Jorge Rios is a student in Craig Bal’s class. He studies a construction textbook at the training center next to his high school on October 26th, 2021.

How is Arizona’s economy recovering amid the pandemic?

While the state has recovered most of the jobs it lost during the onset of the pandemic, the labor market has changed.

A health care worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine on a man at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Tucson. March 2021.

It’s been nearly a year. Why aren’t more Arizonans vaccinated?

This week, The Buzz revisits the rollout of vaccinations in Arizona, boosters and the barriers that stand between the state's residents and getting the shot — or the second and third.

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