El Festival del Renacimiento de Arizona está de vuelta junto a sus trabajadores
GOLD CANYON – El Arizona Renaissance Festival & Artisan Marketplace ha regresado a su hogar justo al sur de Gold Canyon después de una pausa causada por la pandemia de COVID-19. Con él vienen los elementos básicos del festival de larga duración: juegos divertidos, grandes multitudes y novedades anacrónicas.
Recycling solar panels is complicated. Here’s how one Yuma company does it.
YUMA – We Recycle Solar in Yuma is recycling solar panel waste, but there is more to be done to ensure a safe and eco-friendly process as solar power gains popularity worldwide and its waste grows.
Las poblaciones de mariposas occidentales realizan una migración notable
PISMO BEACH, Calif. – Las poblaciones de monarca han sido inestables durante las últimas dos décadas, pero este año, miles de mariposas monarca migraron al oeste. Los científicos aún no entienden por qué los cambios en la población son dramáticos cada año, pero aún instan a las personas a realizar esfuerzos de conservación.
StandDown provides veterans with haircuts, legal, medical and housing services
PHOENIX – Hundreds of veterans lined up Thursday morning to receive legal, medical, housing and other services, during the 20th annual Maricopa County StandDown.
Renaissance festival returns, and with it, workers who depend on ‘the circuit’
GOLD CANYON – The Arizona Renaissance Festival stopped in 2020 and didn’t return in 2021 because of the pandemic, but it made its comeback this year. Crowds and workers were eager to return.
‘Life masks’ created to keep stories of the Holocaust alive
SCOTTSDALE – Artist Robert Sutz casts the faces of Holocaust survivors, liberators and righteous gentiles into “life masks” to preserve their stories.
Reversing the desert: How an Arizona engineer is trying to heal the land and protect water
RED ROCK – A civil engineer in southern Arizona is looking at nature’s systems to reverse deserts, heal watersheds and revitalize arid land with holistic land management practices.
‘Those bulls don’t know it’s a gay rodeo’: Arizona event embraces LGBTQ+ community
LAVEEN – The Arizona Gay Rodeo supports the LGBTQ+ community and shows that Western culture is all inclusive. Veteran David Limon uses bullriding to break barriers.
Arizona has eyes on March Madness after clinching Pac-12 regular season title
LOS ANGELES – The Arizona Wildcats clinched the Pac-12 regular season title but have much bigger aspirations as the conference tournament and March Madness approach.
Some Arizona downwinders who blame illnesses on nuclear testing remain uncompensated
KINGMAN – Residents in lower Mohave County who attribute their illnesses to the nuclear testing at the Nevada National Security Site continue to be left out of RECA compensation. New legislation is being introduced to include them in the compensation.
Mystery of the monarchs: Western butterfly populations stage remarkable comeback
Monarch populations have been rocky over the past two decades but this year, thousands of monarch butterflies migrated west. Scientists still don’t understand why the population changes dramatically each year, but they still are urging people to make conservation efforts.
Discovery of Pluto at Flagstaff observatory continues to inspire 92 years later
FLAGSTAFF – The Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff celebrated the 92nd anniversary of astronomer Clyde Tombaugh’s discovery of Pluto, which now is designated a dwarf planet.
