Around a third of students who start college don’t end up getting their degrees. We’ll hear how ASU is trying to bring that number down. Plus, a former NAU trumpet prodigy remakes herself as a stand-up comedian.
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Venezuelans are the fastest-growing group of Hispanic people in America, and many of them came here seeking asylum from the Maduro regime. A recent three-part series in Luminaria takes a detailed look at the story of two such people — a Tucson couple named Yesenia and Mariano. -
Amber Victoria Singer/KJZZASU has launched a new effort to bring back students who started their college careers but didn’t graduate. Operation Comeback aims to help those students go back to school and get their degrees — that includes financial assistance. -
Tim Agne/KJZZThe state has created a new active management area — the eighth in Arizona. That means there will now be rules on groundwater pumping in this basin, located in La Paz County in western Arizona. -
Sky Schaudt/KJZZThe Phoenix City Council approved a controversial new law that puts new restrictions in place about providing medical care in public parks — and harm reduction groups are not happy about it. -
Arizona State UniversityASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law will be hosting a job fair Thursday — but one entity that’ll be recruiting is drawing the ire of some students: ICE. -
Amber Victoria Singer/KJZZJessie Johnson is a comedian who grew up here in the Valley. She recently toured the world with fellow stand-ups Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee, and performs regularly at LA’s legendary Comedy Store.
