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A sea turtle heads back to the ocean after the tortugueros have finished gathering data on it.

Providing a future for sea turtles in Kino Bay.

Also on Arizona Spotlight: A roundtable with Young Muslims about maintaining their faith in a secular culture; and the difficult reality of living with aphasia.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich in Phoenix, January 2019.

Arizona AG will ask court to lift injunction on state abortion ban

Brnovich says law banning abortion is back in effect following Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Researchers say the smell of the monsoon is good for your health.

Arizonans benefit from the special scent of the monsoon

Scientists find evidence of health benefits in the desert rain.
Protesters lined Congress St. after the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade on June 24th, 2022.

Tucson greets Roe reversal with protests

The crowd blocked Congress St and several intersections downtown.
The Evo A. DeConcini U.S. Courthouse, 405 W. Congress Street in Tucson.

Tucsonans react to Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade

Large crowds are expected at a march downtown Friday night.
A file image of a judge's gavel in a courtroom at the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.

Planned Parenthood stops abortions in Arizona after Supreme Court decision

Arizona's abortion laws could end up in a legal limbo.
The west facade of United States Supreme Court Building at dusk in Washington, D.C., USA. From October 2011.

Arizona after Roe v. Wade

Barbara Atwood, professor of law emerita at the University of Arizona, spoke with AZPM about the past and future of the state's abortion laws.

Green Valley hospital again in peril

Employees notified of possible shutdown.
Vials of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in Tucson. January 2021.

Pima County to start vaccinating 0-5 year olds

COVID-19 shots for tots rolling out now.
Vials of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in Tucson. January 2021.

Arizona ready for kids' COVID shots

Tens of thousands of doses are on the way to the state.
Gov. Doug Ducey delivers the annual State of the State address online due to COVID-19. Jan. 11, 2021

Ducey tests positive for COVID-19

He cancels border trip and meeting with Pence.
COVID19

COVID risks up in Arizona

The CDC has raised the transmission rates for many Arizona counties.
Woodpeckers are only one of the local species of birds that nest during the month of March.

Bird flu arrives in Arizona

The first cases were found in Maricopa County.
City of Tucson's council chambers in downtown.

Tucson City Council passes resolution supporting abortion rights

The resolution is in advance of an expected U-S Supreme Court ruling.
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.

COVID numbers rising in Arizona

The number of new COVID cases in Pima County has topped more than 1,000 for the second week in a row.
Badge of the Arizona Department of Corrections.

Department of Corrections hires controversial private health care company

The department is still involved in a lawsuit over allegations that it provided unconstitutional levels of health care.

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