Jul 20 Senator John McCain says he’ll ‘be back soon, so stand-by’ By Associated Press McCain's office said late Wednesday that the 80-year-old senator had been diagnosed with cancer. Continue reading
Jun 17 Border Patrol arrests 4 men at medical camp run by aid group By Astrid Galvan, Associated Press Border Patrol agents swept into a medical camp in the Arizona desert to capture four immigrants, an operation that volunteers on Friday called a "staged military siege."… Continue reading
Jun 10 Warship USS Gabrielle Giffords commissioned in Texas By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press The Navy's newest combat ship was put into active service following a commissioning ceremony Saturday, named after former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was injured during a 2011 shooting. Continue reading
Jun 01 Why more dust storms and Valley fever are blanketing the Southwest By Dave Berndtson Scientists found the frequency of dust storms more than doubled in recent years, along with an 800 percent uptick in Valley fever, a fungal lung infection. Continue reading
Apr 26 Watch 7:52 Nature knows no borders. Border security can take a heavy toll on endangered wildlife By PBS News Hour One of President Trump’s key promises rests on building a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border. But how would a continuous barrier stretching from California to Texas affect the wildlife that live there? At least 50 species near the border are… Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch 5:48 How a hands-on high school veterinary program is enriching Navajo students By PBS News Hour Kids don't learn unless they get a little dirty. That's the philosophy of the man who runs the career and technical education program at Monument Valley High School in Kayenta, Arizona, where students from the Navajo Nation get hands-on instruction… Continue watching
Mar 29 Photos: What migrants leave behind on their journeys through the desert By Joshua Barajas Personal effects are scattered throughout the Sonoran Desert, where thousands of undocumented immigrants have died making the journey up north from Mexico. Continue reading
Mar 28 This man has tried crossing the U.S.-Mexico border 5 times. He says he won’t try again By Joshua Barajas PBS NewsHour visited a soup kitchen for recently deported migrants in Mexico that’s a stone’s throw from the Mariposa port of entry in Nogales, Arizona. There, he met a husband and father who, days earlier, tried to cross the border… Continue reading
Mar 16 Photo: Handprints at the border By News Desk, William Brangham Handprints are left on the iron posts when people try and scale the border wall to get into the U.S. Continue reading
Mar 15 Photos: Remembering fallen migrants in the Arizona desert By Joshua Barajas As part of an ongoing reporting trip, PBS NewsHour’s Joshua Barajas joined members of a group called the Tucson Samaritans in Arizona's Sonoran Desert. Continue reading