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Arizona Information


State-wide | Tucson-Pima County | Newspapers | Weather

State-wide

Arizona @ Your Service - Official web site of the State of Arizona

Arizona Board of Regents - Arizona Board of Regents is the governing body for our state's public university system including Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and The University of Arizona.

Arizona Electronic Atlas - A web-based GIS interactive atlas of Arizona with several map themes and layers including species richness, EPA sites, demographics, economics, and more. Data is available for free downloading. The links page is an excellent resource to other online atlases. Created at the University of Arizona.

Arizona Facts and Figures - Includes links to census and other demographic and economic data, vital statistics and other general information for Arizona and Pima County.

Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates - PDF copies of birth and death certificates that are now public record (for births that occurred at least 75 years ago and deaths that occurred at least 50 years ago). From Arizona Department of Health Services.

Arizona Guide - The official guide from the Arizona Office of Tourism.

Arizona Legislative Information System (ALIS) - Arizona Legislative Information updated 15 to 20 minutes after its are entered into the Legislature's internal ALIS network.

Arizona Memory Project - The Arizona Memory Project, launched in March 2006, is an online effort to provide access to the wealth of primary sources in Arizona libraries, archives, museums and other cultural institutions. This initiative provides the opportunity to view some of the best examples of government documents, photographs, maps, and objects that chronicle Arizona's past and present. Currently included are several collections from the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records and the Sharlot Hall Museum, Library and Archives.

Arizona News Flash - Arizona news magazine, updated daily. Features, news stories, commentary, pictures and links.

Arizona Regional Economic Analysis Project - A joint project of UA's Eller College of Management and ASU's W.P Carey School of Business, this site includes programs to create graphic trends analyses and customized tabulations of economic data for the regions and 15 counties of Arizona. Annual data back to 1969.

Arizona State Parks

Arizona State Public Information - "Coalition of partners form the public and private sector who have joined together to make sure all Arizonans are part of the information age".

AZ Tourist News Online - AZ Tourist New Online feature articles, reviews, and directories of interest to Arizona travelers and tourists.

Data Central - AZCentral.com's collection of searchable databases ranging from local crime maps to recent home sales; includes both statewide and Phoenix/Maricopa county.

Economic & Business Research Center (UA Eller College of Management) - "The premier source for information on Arizona's economy." Includes data on population, unemployment, job growth, wages/earnings, personal income, housing permits, retail sales, consumer price index, as well as reports on the economic impact of the University of Arizona.

Great Schools.net-Arizona - GreatSchools.net is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide parents with the information they need to choose schools for their children, understand the school system, and support schools in their communities.

Historical Photograph Collection at the Arizona State Archives - "Archives' photographs focus upon the unique cultural heritage of the state and territory of Arizona, beginning in 1863. The collection includes about 90,000 images, including photographs, slides, negatives, glass plate negatives, tintypes, transparencies, postcards and others".

Republic 100 - Ranks Arizona's 100 largest publicly and privately held companies by the number of people they employed within the state. Compiled annually by the Arizona Republic.

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Tucson-Pima County Information

City of Tucson - Local government information including the Mayor's home page, city employment, Tucson demographics and more. Search the City of Tucson web site

KNOWledge Net - Tucson Citizen's collection of free, searchable databases of primarily local interest, including statistics on schools, education, crime, property, city, university and federal employee salaries, military and more.

Pima County - Links to county agencies and services.

Star 200 - The major employers of southern Arizona. Compiled yearly by the Arizona Daily Star. Searchable by many different categories back to 1992.

Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce

YWCA of Tucson - Info about programs and services designed to assist women in Tucson.

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Arizona Newspapers

General

Arizona Daily Star - Searchable archives (1991-present) of Tucson's morning paper. (Available only to UA.)
Today's Star is available at www.azstarnet.com/

Arizona Daily Sun - Searchable archives of the Flagstaff newspaper (1999-present).

Arizona Republic - Searchable archives (January 1999-present) of the Phoenix local paper. (Available only to UA.)
The current Republic is available at www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/

Arizona Daily Wildcat - The University of Arizona's student newspaper.

Tucson Citizen - Searchable archives (1999-present) of the Citizen - the state's oldest continuously published newspaper, which began October 15, 1870. (Available only to UA.)
Today's Citizen is available at www.tucsoncitizen.com/.

For other current Arizona newspaper web sites, see http://www.usnpl.com/aznews.php.

For a list of Arizona newspapers available in print and/or microfilm in the UA Library, see Arizona Newspapers at the University of Arizona Library.

Arizona Newspaper Project is a statewide program run by Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records working to locate, catalog and microfilm old newspapers throughout the state. A searchable database of newspapers available through this program is available.

Business

Business Journal of Phoenix - Searchable archives (June 1996-present) containing selected articles from the print edition are available. (For online coverage from 1989-2001, see available options in our Catalog.)

The Daily Territorial - Tucson and Pima government issues, financial and economic information.

Inside Tucson Business


Entertainment

Phoenix New Times - Entertainment newspaper for Phoenix Arizona.

Tucson Weekly - Popular entertainment newspaper featuring weekly information concerning arts, music, concerts, festivals, cinema and more.

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Arizona Weather

National Weather Service

Tucson Weather Service Office

Weather Underground

The Weather Channel

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