Fronteras Desk News
Gov. Katie Hobbs plans to send National Guard troops to the Arizona-Mexico border if the Biden Administration does not reopen the Lukeville Port of Entry soon.
Dec. 8, 2023
The Flagstaff Unified School District is halting school bus service for many students starting right after the winter recess.
Dec. 8, 2023
The Pima County Board of Supervisors has approved a plan to adopt a set of policies to reduce generational poverty.
Dec. 7, 2023
Last year’s Pipeline Fire led to erosion of the city of Flagstaff’s 13-mile-long infrastructure that runs spring water to the city’s distribution system.
Dec. 6, 2023
Lawmakers in Congress are still mulling over a deal that could tie President Joe Biden's foreign military aid package requests to a bill that would restrict asylum processing at the border.
Dec. 5, 2023
There’s a growing backlog of young immigrants on a special protective status who are trying to get residency in the U.S. That backlog is detailed in a new report by the legal aid group National Immigration Project.
Dec. 5, 2023
Arizona is receiving 24 million dollars to build safer wildlife crossings and reduce collisions with mostly elk along a stretch of Interstate 17 south of Flagstaff.
Dec. 5, 2023
Holiday highway closures will take place in northern Arizona as a result of heavy snow in the region. Starting Monday, the Arizona Department of Transportation will close state Route 67 between Jacob Lake and the Grand Canyon National Park’s North Rim.
Dec. 3, 2023
The U.S. government is halting a long disputed method of killing coyotes in the Southwest using so-called "cyanide bombs."
Dec. 3, 2023
Arizona’s top politicians are requesting the federal government’s help to keep U.S. ports of entry open on the state’s border with Mexico. United States Customs and Border Protection announced Friday that the Lukeville Port of Entry — which Arizonans pass through to get to Puerto Peñasco — is closing indefinitely on Monday.
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Dec. 1, 2023
A KJZZ News reporter covering a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Tucson was one of more than two dozen people taken into custody Thursday morning.
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Nov. 30, 2023
The U.S. State Department will begin a pilot program that will allow some special visa holders to apply for renewals in the United States.
Nov. 30, 2023
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is in Texas this week for a meeting with border officers in Uvalde as that city and others along the U.S.-Mexico border are seeing a sharp rise in the number of migrants apprehended.
Nov. 30, 2023
CBP data shows the Tucson Sector has had the highest number of apprehensions border-wide for the last several months. Some 750 people were waiting for processing on Tuesday morning along the border in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
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Nov. 28, 2023
The FBI is investigating a now former officer of a northern Arizona police department who was arrested Friday on numerous assault and reckless driving charges. He is accused of fatally striking a pedestrian, then fleeing the scene.
Nov. 28, 2023
The number of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reached its highest since 2020 this month. That’s according to a new report from the data analysis group TRAC.
Nov. 28, 2023
Santa Cruz County is slated to get a higher reimbursement rate for housing federal detainees in its county jail. The county’s Board of Supervisors voted to increase the rate from about $60 to about $85 per federal inmate.
Nov. 28, 2023
The U.S. government wants to create more consistent rules for the bolts used by rock climbers in the country’s national forests and parks.
Nov. 27, 2023
The restrictions are part of a larger effort by the U.S. government to tamp down migration through Latin American countries.
Nov. 27, 2023
The City Parks Arts and Crafts Fair has been running for the last 40 years and includes woodworkers, jewelers, potters and photographers from Tucson, Phoenix and around the Southwest.
Nov. 23, 2023
