Good morning, Tucson.

Stillwell House opens to the public with the Ghouls Night Out Halloween Market and Open House today, and will hold Friendsgiving on Saturday, Nov.

21 and Cocoa & Cookies on Saturday, Dec. 12; 20 to 25 local vendors will sell baked goods, crafts, and Si Charro catering items including tamales, salsas + pastries.

Nearly 200 people held a candlelight vigil Wednesday evening at Joaquin Murrieta Park to honor farmworkers leader Dolores Huerta after her death that morning in Bakersfield; speakers remembered her activism and organizers said the Arizona Dolores Huerta Holiday Coalition will continue the Comunidad y Labor Unity Fair.

Park rangers and Pima County Sheriff's Department (PCSD) rescued a dehydrated hiker from the Tanque Verde Ridge Trailhead in Saguaro National Park on Oct.

27 after she called for help; responders gave her fluids and escorted her down the trail.

University of Arizona astronomers used Hubble to show the 'Cat's Tail' in Beta Pictoris is a huge carbon-rich, porous dust stream from a past collision 63 light-years away.

Study (The Astrophysical Journal Letters) says a warp in the disk points to a gas giant 10 times Jupiter.

Tomb Town Tucson will return this weekend as a guided Halloween trail in the Stewarts' front yard near N.

Wanda Road and W. Emerine Drive, featuring props, animatronics, scare actors, pop-ups & classic movie characters.

Arizona officials confirmed the state's first New World screwworm after a Cochise County vet found a dog with maggot filled wounds on Oct.

26; the dog is treated and USDA and state agencies will set an infested zone, boost surveillance, release sterile flies, and plan a dispersal facility (Douglas).

State and federal officials confirmed Arizona’s first New World screwworm case in a Cochise County dog after a vet found a wound heavily infested with maggots on Oct.

26; authorities are establishing a 20 kilometer infested zone, increasing surveillance, and planning sterile-fly releases and a dispersal facility in Douglas to stop spread.

More than $1.2 million in restitution checks will be mailed this week to hundreds of Arizona veterans who paid fees to unaccredited VetLink Solutions from Jan.

2019 to March 13, 2024, under a consent judgment; Tucson residents with questions can call (520-628-6648).

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Tuesday that cattle shipments from Mexico are expected to resume at the Mariposa Port of Entry on Nov.

30 after a roughly 14-month suspension, following facility upgrades including added K-9 inspection teams and dipping vats to screen for New World screwworm.

Researchers at the University of Arizona developed Olorofim, a drug that appears to kill the Valley Fever fungus (in a second clinical trial) and could move toward FDA review this year with fewer side effects than current treatments, and a vaccine for dogs is nearing approval with human trials possible later.