By Article Author Tech Parks Arizona held the eighth annual Racing the Sun, a high school solar go-kart competition, this past Saturday, April 27th, 2019, at Tucson’s Musselman Honda...
Category - Outdoors
They’ll See You Before You See Them
By Alisha Brewer If you are one of the few people to have spotted a mountain lion, consider yourself lucky! I know some people...
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AZ Adventures Outdoors: Sabino Canyon Crawler
By Rob Samuelsen For thousands of years, people have flocked to Sabino Canyon to use and enjoy the water because water is the...
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Highways & Byways for June 2021
By Tom Howard Houghton/I-10 InterchangeCrews have completed the switch of all the on and off ramps. Work continues the bridge...
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Looking Up – Tucson Mountain Ranges
By Rob Hallberg The Tucson area mountains are spectacular and very few US cities can boast they are “surrounded” by them. You can...
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Hot Temperatures on the Way; Keep Fido Cool
By Nikki Reck The triple digit temperatures will soon be here. The Pima Animal Care Center encourages community members and pet owners to take extra precautions to keep their pets safe and...
March, Warm with One Storm System
By John Simpson March was a bit warmer than average, and only one storm brought rain in the valleys and snow in the mountains. This one storm during the middle of the month dropped 0.66” of...
Introducing Astronomy to Young Students
By David Levy During our monthly star nights at our neighborhood Corona Foothills Middle School, I sit down on a chair near the telescope to assist with the observing. The students...
Camp Kesem: U of A Students Helping Kids Affected
By Marco Padilla of Cottonwood Elementary School Cancer is an illness that people can have. There is a camp that can help support children who have parents fighting cancer or have died from...
To Feed or Not to Feed?
By Elizabeth Smith Fertilizer is simply the nutrition that plants need to thrive. Each element that makes up this nutrition has a specific role to play and they all work together for the...
Snakes!
By Charlotte Herdliska Summer is Coming! As the weather starts to warm up, Snakes will start waking up after a winters nap (though it wasn’t a very long nap) and looking for a meal. I can...
Hot Well Dunes
By Rob Samuelsen Because of naturally occurring radioactive decay, the earth’s mantle produces a tremendous amount of heat. Molten rock is one evidence of this heat, but a more common and...
Vail, Rita, and Corona Construction Updates
By Tom Howard I-10/ Vail and Colossal Cave improvements: The project was awarded to Granite Construction, of Tucson, on 3/15/19. This project will affect the roads and bridges on...
District 4 Updates: May 2019
By Steve Christy As a native of Pima County, mining has always been of particular interest to me, and I’m sure to all of us who live, work, and invest in our community. After all, mining...