Tucson Community Resources

Practice safe shopping with the online Better Business Bureau Consumer Guide. You'll find the names, addresses and phone numbers of local businesses that subscribe to BBB principles, as well as tips to protect you from fraudulent practices.

Finding the community service agency that can best help you resolve a problem can sometimes be difficult. The Directory of Helping Resources in Southern Arizona, produced by Informatio n and Referral Services, lists more than 600 groups that can help with housing, child care, employment, counseling and many other needs. The I&R online directory, indexed by service category, will be updated quarterly.

FutureWest--the Greater Tucson Economic Council's Internet Web site -- provides comprehensive information moving businesses to the Tucson area, as well as how to do business with the hundred s of high-tech companies in Southern Arizona.

Prevention, as well as treatment, is a focus of The Arizona Cancer Center, as it begins its third decade of service at the University of Arizona. Among the special aspects of the center's Web site is a major information package dealing with breast cancer.

The Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce has recently revised its Web site to provide more member services and recruitment information as well as local economic perspectives.



Government services

It doesn't rain often in Tucson, but when it does rain, it doesn't take long for people to realize that the "Do Not Enter When Flooded" signs are no joke. The City of Tucson Transportation Department's draft Phase II Stormwater Management Study is available via StarNet for users who are interested in the issue.



Online government resources

  • City of Tucson

    • The city's home page contains links to most departments.

  • Town of Oro Valley

    • The Web site for this growing northwest-side town contains information about town departments and services.

  • Pima County

    • The county's home page has links to most departments.

  • State of Arizona

    • The state's home page has links to executive agencies, the legislature and the courts.

    The University of Arizona's home page.

    Pima Community College's server