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Just a week after University of Arizona researcher Sue Sisley was fired from her job , effectively shutting down crucial, federally approved research into the potential of cannabis as a treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder , the state of Arizona officially added the condition to the list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana.

A whole weekend of festivities will welcome its opening. "Stretching from the University of Arizona, down 4th Avenue and through Downtown to the Mercado District on the West Side, restaurants, clubs and businesses along the line of the new Sun Link streetcar will mark the opening of the route with a weekend of dozens of events, from the ... (more)

"Urban heat boosts some pest populations 200-fold, killing red maples" - Phys.Org Some invasive species like it hot - especially the gloomy scale insect.

Qualified applicants holding M.D., Ph.D. or equivalent degrees with five years post graduate or faculty-level experience will be considered for appointment at assistant, associate or full professor levels.

Greg Pierce has been selected to serve as the new Wyoming State Archaeologist. He succeeds Dr. Mark Miller who held the title for the past 30 years and retired this spring.

A new system that sent patients to designated cardiac receiving centers dramatically increased the survival rate of victims of sudden cardiac arrest in Arizona, according to a study published online yesterday in Annals of Emergency Medicine .

We've heard for years how having an ergonomically-correct space for our work and home computers is important for overall better posture and other muscular-skeletal health.

As monsoon storms hit Arizona, stay safe with the latest alerts. Follow the action on the Tucson News Now First Alert Interactive Radar .

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the film Revenge of the Nerds , which was released back in 1984 when "nerd" was a really embarrassing thing to be called.

THE DESERT SPEAKS is an Emmy award-winning series focusing on desert regions around the world.

Sam Quinn, 22, recently signed a contract with Radio City Music Hall to join the cast as a dancer with the Radio City Christmas Spectacular National Tour.

The Tucson sector of the Customs and Border Protection agency kicked off the first day of their citizen's border patrol academy with about a dozen students on Thursday.

A person's journey toward a dream can sometimes be a circuitous path. It is along the way, however, that people can discover things about themselves that are essential to who they become.

Over 170 tons of sand have been shooting over 5th Avenue and Toole into the empty MLK lot across from Hotel Congress this week, bringing the beach to Tucson as part of this weekend's Sun Link celebration of the Modern Streetcar Launch .The Downtown Tucson party , dubbed Summer in the City , starts Friday, July 25 at 4:00 p.m., and is one of five ... (more)

Water levels in Lake Mead are are historic lows , and a further drop could mean cutbacks for states using the water, including Arizona.

Here's a "dirty question" for you... What's a germ-ridden object you carry around with you and use all the time? There are a lot of products on the market that claim to do the trick, but do they really work? Are they worth the money? We talked with a group of college students who let us swab their smartphones for germsa and when they saw the ... (more)

Only one day remains until students, staff and faculty at the University of Arizona can start riding the streetcar.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has named Jacqueline Lee Mok, Ph.D., a its new vice president for academic, faculty and student Affairs.

The size and age of plants have more of an impact on their productivity than temperature and precipitation, according to a landmark study by University of Arizona researchers.

Liu left behind a lucrative engineering career in the private sector to work in government because she wanted to solve problems that affect people's daily lives.