The federal government has denied permits for 12 water stations run on public lands by local migrant aid group Humane Borders, removing 30% of the group’s water stations they say are crucial to saving...

A former prison slated to become an immigration detention center in Marana could reopen in the next 60 days, according to an email shared Wednesday by Emily Lawhead, director of communications for MTC...

Dyan Norfleet had to dip into her savings to pay her August bill at Twin Palms, a north side Tucson mobile home park.  The total bill was more than $900, including $171 in electricity costs — the mont...

Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?

When Robert Meade noticed a storm had blown a number of shingles off the roof of his four-room manufactured home several years ago, his heart sank. Meade, who is in his 80s, didn’t know how they would...

A CBP letter obtained by LOOKOUT reveals plans for an 87-acre Border Patrol station in Southern Arizona that the agency says will help increase apprehensions.

Deaths in immigration detention have skyrocketed under the Trump administration, with more than 50 people dying while in civil detention across the country since Trump took office.  Four people died w...

Before it decides which schools to close and consolidate in the coming year, the Tucson Unified School District Governing Board voted Tuesday night to give the public more information on why the chang...

Tiff Williams was walking their dog around 6 a.m. Thursday in their north side Tucson neighborhood when they saw a commotion at the house across the street.   Williams watched as agents spilled out of...

Tucson’s homelessness outreach workers spent a decade using a national questionnaire to decide who gets housing resources. This summer they’re using a homegrown one instead that is centered around a n...

The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.

Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.

When Carolina Silva became the first-ever full-time staff member at the Arizona nonprofit Scholarships A-Z in 2020, the energy was high on community efforts to support undocumented youth in Arizona on...

As Sun Tran drivers threaten to strike over safety, the Tucson City Council approved funding Tuesday for a new transit ambassador program and increased police patrols, the first year of a safety plan ...

The FSG Writer’s Fellowship is a yearlong program designed to give an emerging writer from an underrepresented community additional resources to build a life around writing.

Applications close June 26, and parents will get offers by Aug. 2. Most 2-K seats will be free 8 a.m.-6 p.m., year-round.

Dozens of immigrants on hunger strike are demanding the ICE facility be shut down due to lack of medical care and a recent uptick in deaths at the desert complex.

“Our TEP bills are too high now,” writes Janelle Menick in a public comment on the ongoing Tucson Electric Power rate case. Hal Bergsma asks how people on fixed incomes will afford a rise in prices. “...

Tucson migrant advocates have designed a new tool to help track immigration-related enforcement in and around the city as arrests surge under President Donald Trump’s mass deportation initiative. Tucs...

“Big ol cactus by their front door.” “Is her phone turned off?”  “Do you have Facebook Messenger? Get a hold of her there.”  The conversation at each of Cochise Harm Reduction’s stops sounds like a lo...

A former prison in Marana slated to become an immigration detention center has a capacity of 513 people, according to state documents. But a procurement order released by the federal government aims t...

This story is published in partnership with CALÓ News, a nonprofit, community-centered newsroom uplifting Latinos in Arizona and California. Immigration arrests in Arizona more than tripled in Fiscal ...

Thousands of Kaiser health care workers, including 22,000 nurses in Southern California, are on strike to demand better pay and staffing. The walk out has resulted in canceled or delayed appointments ...

A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...

As Erica Prather and 24 others gathered at Catalina State Park trailhead, she began advising the hikers not to pick any of the park’s native flora. Moments later, 18-year-old Khadija Saboor ran up hol...

A guide to the RTA Next tax vote in Pima County: what Props 418 and 419 would fund, how the sales tax works and what a yes or no vote means

Parents sue to block a Thursday vote to close the Tucson campus of ASDB and relocate students to Oro Valley

404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

A Minnesota refugee family has stopped leaving their home after visits from immigration agents, as a new federal operation begins re-examining refugee cases across the state. A judge has ordered a tem...

The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...

One Tucson family’s harrowing journey from Venezuela through the heart of the anti-immigrant policies of México and the U.S.