WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: * * * Arizona teens charged with human smuggling plus endangerment after attempting to flee from Border Patrol * For More Information AZCBPPublicAffairs@cbp.dhs.gov TUCSON, Ariz. - U.S. Border Patrol agents working in the Tohono O'odham Nation reservation in San Miguel arrested two U.S. Citizens teenagers, three Guatemalan nationals, and a Mexican national who w  more

TUCSON, Arizona, June 5 -- The city of Tucson issued the following news on June 4, 2025: * * * Mayor and Council Approve Plan Tucson 2025, On Nov. 2025 Ballot Tucson's Mayor and City Council have unanimously approved Plan Tucson 2025, setting the stage for voters to decide the city's development blueprint for the next decade this November. The approval comes after a two-year long public engagement process that culminated in a May 20 public hearing where residents weighed in on everything fro  more

TUCSON, Arizona, June 5 (TNSjou) -- The University of Arizona Health Sciences issued the following news release: * * * Study shows loss of Y in blood cells hinders immune response to cancer By Mark Anthony Febbo A new paper published in Nature provides insights into why men with loss of Y have increased cancer risks and poorer outcomes. A study initiated by a University of Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Center physician-scientist defined for the first time how loss of the Y chromosome in male  more

TUCSON, Arizona, June 5 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * Water Resources Research Center conference highlights cross-boundary collaboration By Brad Poole When Jesuit missionary Eusebio Kino came north from what is now Mexico in the late 1600s, he saw the same thing you see now as you near the southern edge of Tucson - irrigated farmland. The fields were maintained, then as now, by the Tohono O'odham, the Indigenous people who have lived and farmed along   more

HAILEY, Idaho, June 4 [Category: Environment] -- The Western Watersheds Project posted the following news release: * * * Wildlife groups' legal challenge: Feds hanging imperiled Sonoran desert tortoise out to dry * TUCSON, Ariz.--Today, wildlife advocates challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) in federal court for denying Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for the Sonoran desert tortoise in 2022. The Desert Tortoise Council, Tucson Herpetological Society, Western Water  more

EUGENE, Oregon, June 5 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release on June 4, 2025: * * * Wildlife groups' legal challenge: Feds hanging imperiled Sonoran desert tortoise out to dry Today, wildlife advocates challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) in federal court for denying Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for the Sonoran desert tortoise in 2022. The Desert Tortoise Council, Tucson Herpetological Society, Western Watersheds Project, and   more