After two years of construction, a plant to filter out potentially toxic groundwater contaminants from Pima County’s only Superfund site is expected to be fully operational at the end of the month. The plant, which cost $18 million, is an innovative effort by Tucson Water to keep drinking water at the federal standard for about…
SUMMERHAVEN, Ariz. — If you’ve been waiting patiently for local ski season to finally start this year, it may be time to put your boots and poles back in the shed. Sure, there’s a little snow on the ground up here on the mountaintop. The main hill has a few thin patches here and there,…
—-[UPDATE, March 23 — The bighorn-sheep reintroduction project was backed primarily by hunting groups, The Arizona Daily Star reports today].—- —-[UPDATE, March 17 — Another bighorn sheep is eaten by a mountain lion doing what comes naturally.]—- —-[UPDATE, March 8 — Criticism of the bighorn sheep program and its emphasis on eliminating the threat from…
What is Steampunk? In this installment of “Brooke’s Society,” our fashion reporter Brooke Bolek, with photographer Isaac Cox, explain it all for you — from the Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention at Old Tucson Studios. *** By Brooke Bolek And Isaac Cox Arizona Sonora News Service TUCSON — Tea duels, guitars made out of shovels,…
There’s no way around it: English is hard to learn. It’s really, really tough. Our often illogical non-phonetic spelling patterns, our tendency to use conjunctions, and the fact that words like “hard” and “tough” can have the same meaning in the above context, but not in others, make it difficult for non-native speakers to even…
