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The mountain pine beetle infestation that has ravaged forests in the western United States and Canada in recent years appears to be losing its grip.

A clearer picture is emerging about how much more nagging drought is going to cost consumer shopping for produce this spring and summer.

"Reef Pools," by Nancy Tokar Miller. Nancy is in the background, looking at her work in an exhibition in 2012 a tLouis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Pima Community College Nancy Tokar Miller, an acclaimed painter often called Tucson's best artist, died Tuesday after a long illness.

Kim Marcus, right, a Serrano-Cahuilla Indian, leads a group of singers in December 2012 in performing Cahuilla bird songs before a tobacco blessing ceremony for the California Center for Native Nations.

When Brooklyn Law School announced earlier this month that it would cut tuition by 15%, it sounded less like a briefing and more like a battle cry.

The number of Arizona parents choosing to not have their children vaccinated is increasing.

Clear, crisp spring air over Arizona means conditions are perfect to see a total lunar eclipse in the sky tonight.

The University of Arizona is touting what's believed to be the first resource center in the country designed to support student veterans pursuing health degrees.

Devin's identical twin, Whitney, was also chosen to be a 2014 Charger Girl. Both are seniors at the University of Arizona.

Hollis-Jefferson has joined AEPi at the University of Arizona, a process a friend of mine has gone through and assuredly would not be worth enduring for a month and a half of membership.

I'm the last person you'd call a Tucson apologist, but even I'm starting to get a little uncomfortable with all of the bashing our community has gotten from long-running animated sitcom Family Guy .

As host of this weekend's MTV Movie Awards , Conan O'Brien wasn't going to do the gig without first setting an awards show record.

The proposed University of Arizona scientific study about using marijuana to treat veterans with post traumatic stress disorder has the green light from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.

After 13 and half years, Plush will officially come to a close on Monday, April 14 and will reopen the next business day as The Flycatcher.

Last week, the Oredigger caught up with someone just getting into the physics major, which is exciting, but it is also fun to pick the brain of someone who has been through it all.

The new hospital reflects the growth of the services offered and that means more people will be coming here from all over Cochise County.

Spring Fling is back on the University of Arizona campus this year for the first time in 15 years, but not everyone is happy about it.

In case you missed any news action this week, we've got you covered. Here's our recap of the most-read news stories of the week: Anti-drug educator Shane Watson often thinks about his appearance in a viral ABC 15 news story about the "threat" of dabbing.

Dr. Andrew Weil, right, visited the University Campus Cafe at the University of Arizona Medical Cente in Tucson on Tuesday, April 8, 2014.

Weil, a Tucson author and nationally recognized founder of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, is lending both his name and recipes to the UA Medical Center's inpatient menu.