Fronteras Desk News
U.S. Rep. Tom O’Halleran hosted a town hall Wednesday focused on the Tunnel Fire, which destroyed at least 100 properties.
Apr. 27, 2022
Leaders in the Yuma area are hosting a roundtable Thursday afternoon to discuss how drought and cuts in Colorado River output will affect water infrastructure and needs going forward.
Apr. 27, 2022
Conservation groups are suing the Mexican government in order to halt construction on a tourist train through the Maya forest in southern Mexico. Parts of the project have moved forward without the usual environmental assessments.
Apr. 27, 2022
As Mexico confronts what has been called a crisis of disappearances across the country, the lower house of Congress this week unanimously approved a measure to create a new agency to search for and identify the missing.
Apr. 27, 2022
The Biden administration plans to end Title 42 in about a month. A federal judge, though, has said he’d grant a motion to stop the administration’s action to end it on May 23.
Apr. 27, 2022
This week, a federal judge in Louisiana announced he intended to grant a motion that could push back the Biden administration’s plan to end Title 42 on May 23.
Apr. 26, 2022
Firefighters in southern Arizona are making headway battling the Locklin Fire. The blaze was reported late Monday night in the town of Bisbee in Cochise County.
Apr. 26, 2022
Mexico's president and top diplomat both disputed the account, and said the statements were campaign rhetoric.
Apr. 26, 2022
Money that was donated to help build a southern Arizona border wall instead went toward luxury purchases for the men who organized the effort.
Apr. 26, 2022
Data for the first quarter of 2022 showed a much more substantial drop in femicides, or the murder of women because of their gender.
Apr. 25, 2022
A state deputy said an unattended campfire is being investigated as a possible cause, and said the incident shows the importance of raising awareness about responsible behavior in the state's wild areas.
Apr. 25, 2022
One of Tucson artist Maxie Adler's most eye-catching works doesn't hang in a gallery or in someone's home — it decorates a 30-foot steel post of the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Apr. 25, 2022
Earlier this month, the Navajo Nation Council’s Health, Education and Human Services Committee voted against a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage on the largest Native American reservation in the country. The bill is far from dead, however.
Apr. 25, 2022
Last week, members of the Phoenix Sister Cities program drove to neighboring Sonora, Mexico, to deliver medical supplies to a children’s burn unit in Hermosillo. Phoenix and Hermosillo have shared a Sister City relationship since 1976.
Apr. 24, 2022
The $2.1 billion natural gas liquefaction plant will be built on roughly 250 acres of state-owned land.
Apr. 22, 2022
The haunting story of a young woman left on the side of a highway late at night in northern Mexico ended in tragedy Friday, after her body was found in a subterranean water tank at a motel.
Apr. 21, 2022
A new report from the advocacy group Human Rights First documents the harm asylum seekers face in U.S. detention facilities. The group is calling for the Biden administration to stop detaining people seeking refuge in the United States.
Apr. 21, 2022
Southern Arizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva hosted a community event in Tucson on Wednesday to give details about a bill he’s part of that would make access to clean air and water a right protected by law.
Apr. 21, 2022
The report, out from the advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights, reviewed case files of 13 parents who came to the U.S. seeking asylum and were separated from their children at the border.
Apr. 21, 2022
Gov. Doug Ducey and 25 other governors launched a Border Strike Force April 18 that will be modeled after the one he launched in Arizona in 2015. But an investigation by the Arizona Republic found Ducey’s Border Strike Force hasn’t been nearly as successful as he has made it out to be.
Apr. 21, 2022
