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The voice of Marana, Oro Valley and Northwest Tucson.

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Golder Ranch Fire Department crews responded to 20,579 calls during 2025. Here are some statistics: https://t.co/uHaHBXKJCS

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Bisbee is a lot of things including an escape from the summer heat.
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Two-day babysitting classes for students aged 12 to 15 years old are now being offered by the Northwest Fire District.
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Michael Hieber has a warehouse of music in his brain, everything from the Great American Songbook to Rob Zombie and beyond. He knows the value of music and how personal it is.
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It’s summer in Tucson and everyone knows it’s hot but there is a side to summer that makes everyone happy: We get our city back. The students have gone home and the snowbirds are RV-ing their way north. That leaves us. Now what?
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A first-ever Oro Valley use tax, approved on a 4-3 vote by the Oro Valley Town Council on Jan. 14 is coming back to the governing board for a second vote.
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Celebrate the summer with the littles at the annual LOFT KIDS FEST hosted by the Loft Cinema. Kick off the fun with a free screening of “Zootopia 2” at an Outdoor Movie Party on Friday, May 29, at Himmel Park.
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In 2025, Golder Ranch Fire District personnel helped to save the lives of 10 people in cardiac arrest.
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#DidYouKnow our bones are actually an organ that makes up about 12% of our body weight? Read more for Osteoporosis Awareness Month: https://t.co/81TlVKDvTU

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Two town-owned parcels of land along Oracle Road have a “range of total value” between $8 million and $13.6 million, according to a preliminary real estate estimate.
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Townhomes — but no apartments — could be built on a 13.94-acre parcel of land just east of Oracle Road, the Oro Valley Town Council has decided.
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Archaeology Southwest believes the town of Oro Valley has “disregarded” its worries regarding an abandoned golf course irrigation pond within the Vistoso Trails Nature Preserve.
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Concerns about contaminants in an abandoned Oro Valley golf course irrigation pond are being exaggerated “to try to instill fear” in the public, according to the president of Preserve Vistoso.
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Soils at the bottom of an abandoned Oro Valley golf course irrigation pond are contaminated, according to a board-certified environmental scientist.
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The generation born on the cusp of the technology boom is turning to social media for help in the kitchen.
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Phoenix teen Emilio Saenz is the creator of https://t.co/vUCJ5rooTr, a website that acts as a directory of dual-language programs in Arizona.
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Amphitheater Public Schools have received the “Copper Apple” award from State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne.
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The Salvation Army Tucson celebrated the people and groups at its Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon, held every two years, this time on May 1 at the Hospitality House on Main Street.
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The town of Oro Valley is netting just under $260,000 from the sale of a home it received as a donation.
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On Earth Day in late April, volunteers with the Sonoran Desert Weedwackers were out by 7 a.m. to remove buffelgrass at Tucson Mountain Park.
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