Craig Smith

Tucson

Reporter at KGUN-TV (Tucson, AZ)

Reporter at KWBA-TV (Tucson, AZ)

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Pima County to offer measles vaccine in schools

3 days ago | kgun9.com | Craig Smith

TUCSON, Ariz (KGUN) — Pima County will be offering measles vaccine at local schools this summer. With serious measles outbreaks in other parts of the country, supervisors voted to send Pima County Health Department workers to schools that have lower than average vaccination rates. County Health Director Doctor Theresa Cullen says the mobile vaccination clinics for the Measles, Mumps and Rubella shots will only come to schools that agree to host them.
Pima County to consider moving horse racing out of Rillito Park

3 days ago | kgun9.com | Craig Smith

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Pima County Supervisors are considering what to do with the horse racing track at Rillito Park. In Tuesday's Board meeting, supervisors heard from a youth soccer booster who urged them to move racing somewhere else and devote the entire park to soccer, pickleball and other community uses. Rillito Park has hosted horse racing since the 1940s, but right now Pima County has no contractor willing to run the racing operation.
Pima County devotes more of its budget to low income housing

3 days ago | kgun9.com | Craig Smith

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — To help relieve a shortage of affordable places to live, Pima County Supervisors are devoting a larger share of property tax dollars to build more affordable housing. The move will not raise taxes for the coming tax year. Pima County supervisors are trying to relieve homelessness by encouraging developers to build more housing low income people can afford to rent.
Is it legal for ICE agents to pretend to be utility workers?

4 days ago | kgun9.com | Craig Smith

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — KGUN 9 broke the story last week of a neighbor claiming Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents posed as TEP workers to try to find and question an immigrant. ICE would only say the case is under investigation. KGUN 9 got an attorney’s perspective on the idea of agents claiming to be someone else.
Potential tech employers for Southern AZ

1 week ago | kgun9.com | Craig Smith

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — We have been working to solve a mystery. What is the big new business Pima County is trying to attract to a large plot of land near the Fairgrounds? We do know the name of another company being courted to bring its business to Southern Arizona. Plans for the site near the Fairgrounds are so secret that Pima County gave it a code name—Project Blue. No one will name the company. Now we are learning of another tech company with potential for Southern Arizona.
UA requires writing courses but cuts writing teachers

1 week ago | kgun9.com | Craig Smith

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — It is hard to get through college, or even to get through life if you do not know how to write clearly. Now University of Arizona is not renewing the contracts of ten instructors who teach writing courses all students are required to take.
About $5.9 Million recovered in $38 Million theft from Santa Cruz Co.

1 week ago | kgun9.com | Craig Smith

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The former Santa Cruz County treasurer who pleaded guilty to stealing more than 38 million dollars in public money is set for sentencing next month. In the meantime, the County’s working to recover as much of that money as it can. When she was Santa Cruz County Treasurer Elizabeth Gutfahr took about ten years to quietly move millions in public money into her private accounts. She used the money to buy plenty of stuff so it’s taking awhile to turn it back into cash.
A little less mystery on the mysterious Project Blue

1 week ago | kgun9.com | Craig Smith

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — There a little less mystery about a multi million dollar project proposed for Pima County land just south of I-10 and Houghton. But we still don’t know the company behind Project Blue. The patch of land may not look like much but Pima County says a project proposed for the site could lead to about three thousand jobs just to build the place and when its done expect roughly 200 jobs at very good pay so who’s this big new employer? We can’t tell you. It’s a secret.
Restrictions mean no campfires for Mt. Lemmon campers

2 weeks ago | kgun9.com | Craig Smith

MT. LEMMON, Ariz. (KGUN) — This season’s fires have not hit Mount Lemmon.Emergency fire restrictions aim to keep it that way. Because the fire danger is so high, if you’re going camping anywhere in southern Arizona you can pretty much count on being prohibited from using any sort of wood, charcoal, anything that would put any sort of an open flame in a campfire or grill because the fire danger is so high that restrictions are in effect. A sign at the base of Mount Lemmon breaks the news. No fires.
What’s it like to fly a wildfire air tanker?

2 weeks ago | kgun9.com | Craig Smith

MESA, Ariz. (KGUN) — When big wildfires flare, ground crews do the grunt work where they’re often too deep in the back country to see, but we usually can see fire tankers and their air drops. It takes careful coordination to make the drops where they help block the fire’s progress. That can mean steering the plane into tight spots. We had a chance to talk to tanker pilot Adam Dimich. He was on standby at an airport in Mesa, waiting to answer a call to fly against a fire.