Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Soccer seeks a home in the desert

Soccer seeks a home in the desert

Terry Wimmer March 15, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGMWQ5j4UD0 Major League Soccer not only brings revenue to the Tucson economy with their preseason play, but a bigger idea that soccer is growing in the community. The...

Immigrant possessions disappear during deportation

Immigrant possessions disappear during deportation

Terry Wimmer March 17, 2017

On a warm day in September, a young man sits in a soup kitchen on the Mexican side of Nogales. He has just been deported from the United States without his belongings. Here at the comedor, he is surrounded...

Homeless youth find help in Tucson

Homeless youth find help in Tucson

Terry Wimmer March 6, 2017

  According to the National Center on Family Homelessness, Arizona is the fifth worst in the United States for child homelessness. Every year, more than 62,000 children throughout Arizona are...

San Pedro River in Benson

Huge housing plan could deplete San Pedro

Terry Wimmer March 31, 2016

A massive new housing development proposed in Benson could empty the San Pedro River Valley aquifer, impacting agriculture, ranches and wildlife from Mexico to Winkelman. The builder, El Dorado...

‘Barrio Stories’ comes to Tucson

Terry Wimmer March 1, 2016

A freight train howls in the distance as a pedestrian sits cross-legged and lights a cigarette, watching curiously as floodlights wash over nearly a dozen actors moving about the Tucson Convention Center...

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