16 teams participated in this years Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Basketball Classic at McKale Center on Monday.

Fernando Mendoza bulldozed his way into the end zone and Indiana bullied its way into the history books Monday night. The Hoosiers toppled Miami to win their first national title.

Hundreds of Tucsonans gathered inside Gene C. Reid Park to honor the life of activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday morning.

Breaking down the five most interesting things about Arizona football's 2026 transfer portal class.

Four-star running back and former Arizona signee Brandon Smith is joining the Oregon Ducks in 2026.

U.S. President Donald Trump linked his aggressive stance on Greenland to last year’s decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize.

Greg Hansen's Notebook: What the Hoosiers have done is comparable to dreaming that Arizona could someday pull off the same climb to the top of the college football world.

A critical element to the Wildcats' portal process: They did not lose quarterback Noah Fifita, who is set to return in 2026 as the greatest quarterback in school history.

The Big 12 had Arizona open league play with three straight Saturday road games, all daytime contests, allowing the Wildcats to easily fit them into their routine.

Following in her older sisters’ footsteps, Cienega’s Hazel Ramos combines talent, grit and academics as she gears up for collegiate soccer this upcoming fall.

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The eight European countries targeted by U.S. President Donald Trump for a 10% tariff for opposing American control of Greenland warned Sunday his threats “risk a dangerous downward spiral.”

After leaving the Pac-12, Arizona State, Colorado, Oregon, USC and Washington experienced upticks in football attendance, while Arizona, Cal, Stanford and UCLA saw average attendance decline.

Former Arizona tight end Brandon Manumaleuna was inducted into the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame in Hawaii over the weekend.

Greg Hansen's Notebook: Indiana Hoosiers' Curt Cignetti has multiple links to former Arizona football coaches.

It is the second time in about two weeks that Pima County health officials have confirmed a measles case in Tucson.

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant exoplanets and their host stars.

Go behind the scenes of Arizona men's basketball's matchup vs. UCF in Orlando with Arizona Daily Star reporter Bruce Pascoe.

Despite rough times for Koa Peat and Anthony Dell'Orso, plus the need to shoot 21 free throws against an active UCF student section, Arizona found a way to stay undefeated.

Arizona women's basketball head coach Becky Burke is "encouraged about the future of Arizona basketball, because I think we'll be competing like we did today for years to come."

Four-star running back and Fresno native Brandon Smith won't be attending Arizona. The Wildcats have five scholarship running backs on roster for 2026.

The 32nd Dillinger Days took over Hotel Congress with antique autos, tours, exhibits, lectures and the reenactments of the 1934 fire and the arrest of John Dillinger, Tucson, Ariz., January

Motiejus Krivas had 15 points and seven points in the first half to help Arizona take a 41-38 halftime lead over UCF in a game when the Knights carried momentum

Greg Hansen's Notebook: Pueblo's America Cazares scored 62 points vs. Desert View, the most in Tucson prep basketball history. She refreshed her record with 64 on Friday.

For Star Subscribers: The long-vacant downtown hotel on the western edge of downtown Tucson will reopen as a 296-room Arizona Hotel HSL Hyatt.

Flag football has taken the next step toward becoming an official NCAA sport.

Hundreds of people rallied Saturday in Greenland and across the Danish kingdom to support the island's self-governance.

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Arizona men's tennis has become a Top 15 program nationally under head coach Clancy Shields. The 11th-ranked Wildcats host their first home event this upcoming week.

The Lower Basin states would take a disproportionate share of water-use cuts proposed in a new U.S. report on the Colorado River, experts say.

Gov. Katie Hobbs' proposal for Arizona's budget focuses on what she calls bread-and-butter affordability issues

More than 7,000 cases, some 86,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, were distributed at the GSSOAZ Cookie Drop, January 16, 2026, to 67 troops in preparation to hit the streets

Thousands of people have been observing the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers.

Arizona's top water official said Friday that negotiations this week brought the seven Colorado River Basin states no closer to an agreement.

Faculty and families joined Tully Elementary students at their first ever maker faire "Greatest Show and Tell on Earth" on Friday morning.

Since the offseason started for Arizona, the Wildcats have added eight defensive backs. The newest addition: Howard cornerback Zuri Watson.

The annual MLK Basketball Classic returns to McKale Center on Monday for its 22nd year. Fourteen Southern Arizona high school basketball teams are set to compete in the event.

Scouting report for Arizona men's basketball vs. UCF on Wednesday in Orlando.

Arizona women's basketball freshman forward Daniah Trammell says becoming a Wildcat was one of the best moments of her life.

Amid constant changes in college basketball, Arizona men's coach Tommy Lloyd is staying focused on the game and operating within — and finding advantages to — new rules.

Tony Dungy is coming to Tucson to be a part of Bob Elliott's "Fireside Chat" series that's hosted by the African American Museum of Southern Arizona.

Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind’s Tucson branch will close the West Speedway campus that’s been its home for more than 100 years and move to an

Arizona added Oregon defensive back Daylen Austin, a former four-star prospect who spent the last three seasons with the Ducks, out of the transfer portal.

PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers pushed through a $440 million package of tax cuts Thursday that is almost certainly headed to a veto by Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who has her

To boost affordability, two Arizona lawmakers want to restrict corporations and investors' purchases of single-family homes.

Providing additional funding and staff for Illinois jails to handle inmates' medical needs has been a challenge at the state and federal level.

Eight security guards and two UA police officers spent the final minutes of a tense intrastate rivalry game Wednesday at McKale lining the tunnel-like exit to the northeast, the tight

College basketball’s free-agency entry point will shrink to just 15 days and start after the NCAA title game, potentially leaving the NCAA Tournament freer of distraction for fans and coaches

Tobe Awaka had 15 points in the first half to but Arizona still trailed ASU 39-38 at halftime of a tense game against its in-state rival on Wednesday at McKale

The Wildcats and Sun Devils tangle in their intra-state rivalry, January 14, 2026, Tucson, Ariz.