Created in the 1960s the Pima Animal Care Center is the only open-admission shelter in the county.
By Maria Angulo
Jun 21, 2018
It's been a while since a Tucson Weekly cover story had an accompanying soundtrack, but this week, musician Dan Stuart provides us with both.
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 21, 2018
Marea Jenness, a Tucson High School biology teacher, keeps a megaphone in the boot of her Mercury Mariner. Jenness stays ready in the event of more protests.
By Tori Tom
Jun 21, 2018
Brenda Suneson knows her love for senior pets can be consuming. She knows they need love and attention regardless of the high medical care costs.
By Dalal Radwan
Jun 21, 2018
Dr. Samantha Varner says it would be a "fundamental corruption" of her medical training and professional ethics if she couldn't inform her patients of all their family-planning options
By Marissa Ryan
Jun 21, 2018
When a woman was caught driving quite obviously drunk one weekday morning, she put a lot of time and effort into fruitlessly trying to convince law enforcement she was just a regular morning commuter.
By Anna Mirocha
Jun 21, 2018
This is what it's come to in Trump's America
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 21, 2018
Having completed my grueling morning workout (it’s damned hard work maintaining this physique!), I now sit down to write my bi-weekly column.
By Tom Danehy
Jun 21, 2018
A book recently published in Tucson might hold a few local records, including one for youngest author: nine years old.
By Jeff Gardner
Jun 21, 2018
The cannabis industry generates billions of dollars across the nation every year, and due to federal banking restrictions, that means billions of dollars of unprotected cash.
By Nick Meyers
Jun 21, 2018
“All hands on deck!” soars like a battle cry. Prompts all sweaty homeless residents to hustle through the Bravo Base entrance to a waiting mini-van in the parking area.
By Brian Smith
Jun 14, 2018
We here at the Tucson Weekly are a bit worried about Keith Bee Jr., the 21-year-old candidate for the Justice of the Peace post now held by his father.
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 14, 2018
The Trump administration's new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum are damaging a local industry near and dear to Tucson: breweries.
By Jeff Gardner
Jun 14, 2018
A local Justice of the Peace race for a county judgeship pits a defense lawyer of 16 years against the 21-year-old son of the judge who currently holds the position.
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jun 14, 2018
A rental-property owner remained stoic after receiving an obscenity-laden, blatantly threatening note from a renter's son.
By Anna Mirocha
Jun 14, 2018
A man caught with what appeared to be heroin tried to dismiss the substance as nothing of importance.
By Anna Mirocha
Jun 14, 2018
If you were concerned about whether you and your medical card would be welcome at one of Arizona’s three state universities next school year, worry no more.
By Nick Meyers
Jun 14, 2018
A signed collection of artwork is stowed within a hunter-green folder inside the left drawer of Rebecca Bommersbach's desk.
By Tori Tom
Jun 7, 2018
Tucson is a town of book lovers—as evidenced by the throngs that gather for the annual Festival of Books—and we’re happy to do our part to introduce readers to local authors and their latest books.
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 7, 2018
If you frequently travel the Tucson/Phoenix corridor, you among many other Arizona residents probably wonder why I-10 switches between two and three lanes intermittently.
By Kathleen B. Kunz
Jun 7, 2018
Fleeing violence in her home country in Central America, Maritza traveled with the large group of migrants seeking asylum.
By Danyelle Khmara
Jun 7, 2018
AirGarage, a service that allows users to rent parking spaces around college campuses, plans to expand at the University of Arizona in the coming months.
By Dylan Reynolds
Jun 7, 2018
An unlucky man felt the wrath of an irate teenager who used his skateboard as a tool of revenge against the man's car.
By Anna Mirocha
Jun 7, 2018
Nowadays, all political discussions quickly devolve into a determination of which side you’re on vis-à-vis the Putrescence in Chief.
By Tom Danehy
Jun 7, 2018
Nestled behind some industrial park buildings in one of Tucson's secluded alcoves sits a nondescript warehouse void of any description of what lies within.
By Nick Meyers
Jun 7, 2018
Bob Grimm brings you our Summer Movie Preview.
By Jim Nintzel
May 31, 2018
Meteorite hunter Geoff Notkin and writer Neil Gaiman have lived oddly parallel lives.
By Jeff Gardner
May 31, 2018
Americans nationwide will come together with a united message on Wear Orange Weekend, June 1 through 3: Stop allowing us to be shot.
By Marissa Ryan
May 31, 2018
TW won more than a half-dozen awards in this year’s Arizona Press Club competition, including two first-place awards for arts and feature coverage.
By Jim Nintzel
May 31, 2018
A drunk woman covered in cactus thorns was arrested for jumping in people's yards.
By Anna Mirocha
May 31, 2018
A local man craving an interesting combination of foods was caught trying to steal candy by passing it off as some kind of strange side dish.
By Anna Mirocha
May 31, 2018
Incessant birdsong, traffic din and distant baseball kids create a melancholy jam, giving the grassy Santa Rita Park a Sunday-at-dusk quality all day long.
By Brian Smith
May 31, 2018
With one of the highest patient-to-dispensary ratios in the country, the stakes are high when it comes to getting into the cannabiz.
By Nick Meyers
May 31, 2018
The Wildcats' earned a spot in next weekend's NCAA Softball Tournament Super Regionals and a rightful final chapter at the stadium that has been their home for a quarter century.
By Christopher Boan
May 24, 2018
There are 101 days between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend. So here are 101 things on how to have fun and keep cool this summer.
By Tucson Weekly Staff
May 24, 2018
Every year, I tell myself I'm past the point of complaining about a Tucson summer.
By Jim Nintzel
May 24, 2018
A lost, super-wasted, underage frat boy seemed unperturbed by his disorientation and inability to walk, until cops entered the picture and he had a complete meltdown.
By Anna Mirocha
May 24, 2018
A young man was found stuck in a family's garage, apparently in the middle of a burglary attempt.
By Anna Mirocha
May 24, 2018
Martha McSally expecting a vote on the hardline immigration measure she is cosponsoring and Ally Miller is playing nice, for now.
By Jim Nintzel
May 24, 2018
Not long after I met my wife in college, she and I went to a carnival at the Cochise County Fairgrounds.
By Tom Danehy
May 24, 2018
Ducey signed a bill giving the go-ahead for a hemp “pilot program” to explore the economic benefit of hemp.
By Nick Meyers
May 24, 2018
Some fear that Fourth Avenue will lose its historic charm, that new, upscale developments will drive up rents and push out local businesses and residents.
By Danyelle Khmara
May 17, 2018
Fourth Avenue has always been a funky corridor where you could run into just about anyone. But can that vibe survive as downtown evolves?
By Jim Nintzel
May 17, 2018
The Democrats running for seats in LD9 appeared together at a forum on Saturday, May 12.
By Danyelle Khmara
May 17, 2018
A man had an interaction with a young female college student that anyone would deem not OK, to say the least.
By Anna Mirocha
May 17, 2018
An east-side woman was the victim of an oddly random yet specific burglary, possibly perpetrated by an oddly random yet specific suspect.
By Anna Mirocha
May 17, 2018
The Congressional District 2 democratic showdown
By Jim Nintzel
May 17, 2018
Even before marijuana culture started entering the mainstream, mentioning 420 usually elicited an eyeroll.
By Nick Meyers
May 17, 2018
Sundays are busy at Buffalo Exchange. Customers stream in, hoping to score Diesel jeans or a vintage dress.
By Vanessa Barchfield
May 10, 2018
Election season is upon us—so why not warm up by voting in this year’s Best of Tucson™?
By Jim Nintzel
May 10, 2018
A Q&A with Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik from midtown Ward 6.
By Jim Nintzel
May 10, 2018
President Trump and jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald have something in common—lyrics to one of her songs, Undecided…
By Lee Allen
May 10, 2018
An elite Foothills preschool was the repeated victim of vandalism evidently inflicted by a graffiti-artist dope smoker with notably immature artistic leanings
By Anna Mirocha
May 10, 2018
A wheelchair-bound elderly gentleman showed the world he was anything but a helpless old man.
By Anna Mirocha
May 10, 2018
The Arizona Legislature wrapped up its work last week. Here are 13 takeaways from the session.
By Jim Nintzel
May 10, 2018
At the Rialto Theater, that age-old question—Beatles or Stones—will be emphatically asked again and then answered to no one’s satisfaction.
By Tom Danehy
May 10, 2018
Arizona’s SB1420 dies as Democrats rejected the bill, causing it to fall short of the three-quarters vote needed to amend the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act.
By Nick Meyers
May 10, 2018
