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A handout image from Banner Health shows a health care worker in one of the hospital's COVID-19 units.

Tucson nurse describes staff shortages, anti-mask sentiment amid COVID-19 surge

As cases are surging across Arizona, progressive care nurse pleads with the public to stay safe.

The members of the Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee hold a hearing on the 2020 General Election. Dec. 14, 2020

Arizona legislators hold election hearing

The Senate Judiciary Committee met for to learn about the general election.

The state says health care workers are at the top of the priority list for COVID-19 vaccine distribution.

COVID-19 vaccinations begin Thursday in Pima County

Most people will get theirs in spring or early summer.

11 Arizona Democrats prepare to cast their votes in the Electoral College. Dec. 14, 2020

Arizona casts 11 Electoral College votes

Trump supporters tried to cast their own votes.

The view of the Tucson Skyline from A Mountain. Oct. 23, 2019.

News roundup: Arizona prepares for vaccine distribution, state’s electoral college votes officially go to Biden

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Dec. 14.

A Centers for Disease Control illustration of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Coronavirus surge continues across Arizona with no slowdown in sight

The reports 5,854 new COVID-19 cases and 35 more deaths

The west facade of United States Supreme Court Building at dusk in Washington, D.C., USA. From October 2011.

US Supreme Court asked to decertify Biden’s win in Arizona

Conservative lawyer challenges vote certification

Morley Avenue foot crossing at the U.S. / Mexico border. The Sanchez teens cross here at least once a month to spend a night or two with their father.

Travel restrictions at the US-Mexico border extended through the holidays

Restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border are now set to remain in place until at least Jan. 21.

A row of empty desks inside a classroom at Mesquite Elementary on August 10, 2020. Students began the school year with at-home learning.

Education notebook: Worsening pandemic hurts students' academic performance

A look back at this week's education stories in Southern Arizona and the state.

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.

Arizona reports over 8,000 additional known COVID-19 cases

COVID-19 hospitalizations as of Friday reached 3,534, topping the summer surge’s high of 3,517 on July 13.

Front-line health care workers will be the first to receive the vaccine.

Arizona health director outlines state vaccine plans

Front-line health care workers will be first in line.

News roundup: Catching up with Arizona unions, health care during the pandemic

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Dec. 11.

Mural on the side of building in Shiprock, New Mexico, in the Nation Nation March 22, 2020.

Navajo Nation prepares for vaccine deliveries

Officials are assuming the Pfizer vaccine will be approved this weekend, with shipments expected to arrive Monday.

Eviction protections for renters set to expire at the end of the year

Two dozen Southern Arizona homelessness service organizations have asked Gov. Doug Ducey to protect renters facing eviction.

John Farley, director of fire test operations at the Naval Research Laboratory, tests the effectiveness of aqueous film-forming foam by spraying it on a gasoline fire. The test took place at the laboratory in Chesapeake Beach, Md. Oct. 25, 2019.

State works to clean up chemical pollutants in Tucson water supply

ADEQ is addressing PFAS contamination of Tucson backup groundwater wells.

Tohono O’odham Chairman Ned Norris Jr. during congressional testimony in February. Norris is one of three tribal leaders, with Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Gila River Indian Community Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis, on the slate of 11 diverse electors who will cast the state’s Electoral College votes December 14, 2020, for President-elect Joe Biden.

Three Arizona tribal leaders on diverse slate of 11 electoral voters

What one former Arizona elector called a "sweet irony" was no accident.

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