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Lisa Klor (right) makes tamales filled with mild peppers, Oaxacan cheese and smoked corn.

Teaching Tucson's Tamale Tradition

Las Milpitas Community Farm celebrates the winter solstice by offering a free lesson in tamale making.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bo Yang, UA professor of landscape architecture and urban planning at the Campus Agricultural Center in Tucson, Ariz., on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2014. Yang is a faculty advisor for the Smart Tree Watering project.

UA tree watering project aims to conserve water and reduce urban heat

From rainwater harvesting to mulching, researchers find ways to grow resilient trees.

Autumn among the aspens.

Also on Arizona Spotlight: Lyse Doucet, chief international correspondent for the BBC, receives the 2024 Zenger Award for Press Freedom from the UA School of Journalism; and Richard Cachor Taylor's talks about his book "Birds of Arizona".

Supporters say a new Santa Cruz River Urban National Wildlife Refuge would enhance the Tucson metropolitan area and beyond. Currently, paths along the river are popular for pedestrians, bicyclists and other users.

Pima County advances plans for Santa Cruz River conservation and wildlife refuge

New partnership aims to protect the Santa Cruz River’s riparian habitat and promote environmental education.

DUSK Music Festival is on November 9th and 10th in downtown Tucson at Jácome Plaza. The festival has live music, food and art.

DUSK Music Festival returns to Tucson.

Also on Arizona Spotlight: Voices from the Tucson Pride Festival; emerging UA filmmakers take the stage at San Diego Comic-Con; and historian David Leighton shares the star-studded story of Nick C. Hall.

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