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Posted May 16, 2022, 5:34 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
A $23 million federal grant will help Tucson International Airport with major renovations, with the runway safety project receiving the largest amount from the first round of a $3.2 billion national program.... Read more»
Posted Apr 18, 2022, 2:08 pm
Jacob Fischler
/Arizona Mirror
A federal judge in Florida voided the nationwide mask mandate for airline and public transportation passengers Monday, saying the requirement was beyond the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's authority.... Read more»
Posted Feb 4, 2022, 12:25 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
More pilots then ever before reported being hit by high-powered lasers in 2021, potentially incapacitating them, according to new FAA data. Arizona ranked in the top five states for the largest number of "dangerous laser strikes."... Read more»
Posted Dec 23, 2021, 9:47 am
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
A new runway at Tucson International Airport will be partly paid for with $31 million from the recent federal infrastructure package, along with other safety improvement.... Read more»
Posted Jul 27, 2021, 1:04 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
One person was killed and another critically injured when a small plane crashed at Ryan Airfield on Tucson's far West Side on Tuesday morning.... Read more»
Posted Jul 23, 2021, 10:07 am
René Kladzyk, René Kladzyk & Danielle Prokop/El Paso Matters
The recent trend by billionaires - like Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson - blasting into space have meaningful economic, environmental and cultural impacts on the borderland communities where the spaceports hoping to cater to commercial space travel are located.... Read more»
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Posted Jul 15, 2021, 5:27 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
An $18.5 million federal grant will go towards the next phase in a longterm Tucson International Airport project to expand and upgrade parts of its airfield so that it meets current federal safety standards, officials announced Thursday. ... Read more»
Posted Jul 1, 2020, 9:55 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
The Tempe Police Department recently released video from its DJI Phantom Pro 4 drone that it used to surveil protesters over the weekend, but the agency isn’t the only law enforcement in the state with the technology.... Read more»
Posted May 14, 2020, 3:01 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
A light plane made an emergency landing on Tucson's Far East Side on Thursday. No injuries were reported, authorities said. The single-engine plane was off the roadway on a flat stretch just before Redington Road climbs toward the Tanque Verde Falls area.... Read more»
Posted Nov 14, 2019, 4:57 pm
Rick Schmitt
/FairWarning
A twice-fired whistleblower says the next 9/11 could be stopped for $12,000 per jet but the airlines say the costs are much higher.... Read more»
Posted Oct 17, 2019, 1:08 pm
Lindsay Walker
/Cronkite News
The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to confirm Arizona businesswoman Barbara Barrett as the next Air Force secretary.... Read more»
Posted Sep 16, 2019, 10:32 am
Wissam Melhem
/Cronkite News
In an otherwise amicable confirmation hearing, some senators pressed Barrett on her response to the Trump administration’s plan to divert $3.6 billion from military projects toward a border wall.... Read more»
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Posted Oct 31, 2017, 7:39 am
Isaac Windes
/Cronkite News
Tucson International last week became the latest airport in Arizona to roll out enhanced security measures that will require travelers to put any electronic device larger than a cell phone into a separate bin.... Read more»
Posted Sep 20, 2017, 3:57 pm
Victoria Mckenzie
/The Crime Report
A government audit of the FAA—the agency responsible for ensuring airline safety—said it had consistently failed to alert federal law enforcement authorities about cont parts installed in U.S. airplanes.... Read more»
Posted Aug 30, 2017, 11:41 am
Bailey Vogt
/Cronkite News
A federal appeals court Tuesday ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to throw out a controversial flight path plan for Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport that sparked tens of thousands of noise complaints from neighbors.... Read more»
Posted Jul 10, 2017, 11:34 am
Ben Moffat
/Cronkite News
Firefighters battling the Goodwin Fire in central Arizona had to suspend operations twice in one week after drones flew into airspace over the blaze.... Read more»