The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is responsible for protecting the environment, but a new audit report says the agency has failed to perform many required tasks in monitoring groundwater for pollution — in some cases the neglect has been for nearly three decades.

More than 80% of global trade by volume is moved by sea, and the disruptions are adding billions of dollars to supply chain costs. But strengthening the supply chain during COVID-19 may come down to removing the chain altogether.

Arizona has reached another sad milestone in the pandemic. 20,000 Arizonans have now died from COVID-19. More than 1,000 Arizonans died from COVID-19 just in the month of September. That's nearly double the number lost in August.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, $60 million grant to a national project for studying why people's brains age differently. The University of Arizona will lead the Precision Aging Network, which will include scientists and technologies from TGen and Arizona State University.

The Tucson police chief’s nomination to head up the country’s largest law enforcement agency is once again moving forward. Chris Magnus’ nomination hearing to become Customs and Border Protection’s next commissioner stalled shortly after it was announced last spring.

U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly announced he will chair a congressional hearing on the ongoing drought in western states, including Arizona. Kelly will chair the Subcommittee on Water and Power, part of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, on Oct. 6.

Tempe Fashion Week kicks off Oct. 2 at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium. It is the brainchild of French transplant Sebastien Verstraet, a fashion photographer here who owns a Valley modeling agency.

Ben Renquist is an associate professor in the University of Arizona’s School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, and he has been working on a new target to treat Type 2 diabetes. His lab focuses on how fatty liver affects the health of people with obesity, and he believes that organ could hold the key to a new treatment for Type 2 diabetes.

As asylum seekers continue to arrive at the southern border, shelters here in the Valley that serve them are filling up — even as the Biden administration continues to turn away thousands of asylum seekers in the name of a public health measure called Title 42.