Tucson Summer Reading Club for grown-ups returns for year 2
Tucson Spotlight's adult summer reading club returns with Pima County Public Library. Get your reading tracker at a local branch starting June 1 and earn prizes all summer.
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Tucson's Sosa-Carillo House reopens as heritage museum
The Sosa-Carillo House, a historic adobe home that survived urban renewal and a case of mistaken identity, has reopened in Tucson as a Mexican American heritage museum after a $2.3 million renovation.
Tucson nonprofit launches mobile shower for unhoused
God's Vast Resources celebrated the launch of a new mobile shower unit May 7, giving unhoused Tucson residents access to free showers, funded by a UnitedHealthCare community grant.
Tucson Spotlight releases community information assessment
Tucson Spotlight's first Information Ecosystem Assessment documents what 560+ Pima County residents need from local journalism and what's standing in the way.
Former Arizona ace Taylor McQuillin finds new role in dugout
Former Arizona softball standout Taylor McQuillin is balancing a professional pitching career with a coaching role at Southern Utah, where she's paying forward the lessons she learned as a Wildcat.
'Love on the Spectrum' star, autism author headline Loft Cinema panel
Autism advocates Dani Bowman and John Elder Robison joined The Loft Cinema and Intermountain Centers for Human Development for a World Autism Month screening and panel discussion of the documentary "The Reason I Jump."
German restaurant fights to open in Tucson
A German family moved to Tucson to open a Bavarian restaurant, only to get tangled in city permits, code violations and licensing delays — and they're still waiting to serve their first customer.
Arizona students build, race solar go-karts at Tucson track
High school students from across Arizona raced solar-powered go-karts they spent nine months building at SARSEF's annual Racing the Sun event April 25 at Musselman Honda Circuit.
Clinica Amistad offers free care to Tucson's uninsured
Clinica Amistad, a free clinic in South Tucson, provides primary care to uninsured and underinsured patients at no cost — serving nearly 2,500 patient visits in 2024 through an all-volunteer model.