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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Tohono O’odham members and other southern tribe members hang a flag at the U.S.-Mexico border. Photo by Alejandaro Higuera.

For Native Americans, racism hits home

Sarah Covey November 15, 2017

  After over 500 years of broken treaties and forceful domination from European settlers and the U.S. government, Native Americans in Arizona today still face racism in the most intimate part...

Copper Queen mine in Bisbee, Ariz. on Monday Sept. 11, 2017. The Copper Queen mine served as a foundation to the town of Bisbee in the early 1900s. (Photographed by Leah Gilchrist/ Arizona Sonora News)

Arizona looks to make a penny on copper industry

Leah Gilchrist September 27, 2017

Copper's value is on the rise, and equipped with new mining technology, Arizona has a promising future in producing the nation’s copper. The value of copper hit $3.20 in mid 2014, before taking...

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Copper value falls as mines dig deeper

Nathan Delfs February 18, 2016

  Some geographic ranges are naturally blessed with commodities that are heavy contributors to their economic success. California has timber, Nevada has gold, Wisconsin has cheese and Arizona...

Bisbee and the mine as they are seen from Google Earth

The big hole of Bisbee

Devon Confrey February 11, 2016

Left with a hole, what’s a town to do? Bisbee – with its tunnel, red rock, hippies, stairs, the Copper Queen Hotel, motorcycle geeks singing Fleetwood Mac, slag, the coffee roaster with dreadlocks...

Dutch Nagle, task president for the Friends of the San Pedro River, stands at a pond near the San Pedro. The river runs north from its headwaters in northern Mexico to its confluence with the Gila River near Winkelman, Arizona.

Humans threaten health of San Pedro River

Mark Armao October 23, 2014

Water swirls and gurgles at the foot of a towering cottonwood, its reflective leaves shimmering in the wind. The thirsty trees line the banks of the San Pedro River, which flows undammed from its headwaters...

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