City to double parking rate downtown to $1 per hour

If you drive downtown, you'll be paying double to park at a meter - once downtown streets are re-opened enough for anyone to drive there and reach a parking meter.

Bill mandates cities test their meters

Josie Romero fishes for money to pay the meter while holding on to her 11-month-old son, Jonathan Palomares, on West Alameda Street while Rose Delestre, left, keeps tabs on Jordan Palomares, 3. A state legislator wants cities to be held accountable for their parking meters.

Bill mandates cities test their meters

PHOENIX - There are 60 minutes in an hour. Everybody knows that - except, perhaps an indeterminate number of faulty parking meters that may be having trouble keeping time.

Solar panels to provide lots of cool, shady airport parking

Tucson International Airport plans to install a solar-powered canopy over its entire main public parking lot over the next couple of years with the help of federal and state grants.

City considers doubling downtown parking rates

No one's parking on the downtown streets where streetcar work is under way, and officials say no increase in parking rates is likely until after work on laying tracks is complete. Above, a look east on Congress Street from Stone Avenue on Tuesday.

City considers doubling downtown parking rates

A driver feeds a meter outside the Superior Court building on Congress Street just west of Church Avenue. Just a block east, Congress is blocked off to allow streetcar construction work.

City considers doubling downtown parking rates

Parking downtown might become even more precious.

A look back: Terrorist acts against Americans

Destroyed autos and debris still litter the B-2 level of New York's World Trade Center, March 7, 1993. Explosives experts used scaffolding to lower themselves into a giant bomb crater under the building, expanding their search for new clues after the shaken cellar was strengthened with steel…

A look back: Terrorist acts against Americans

Workers clear debris in an underground corridor in the World Trade Center in New York, March 1, 1993. At least five people were killed in the explosion that the FBI confirmed was caused by a bomb. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Solutions sought on 'sidewalk' parking

After 16 neighborhood representatives said they want to be able to park in front of their own homes, ParkWise spent an hour Tuesday talking about why they shouldn't.

New parking deals during downtown Tucson construction

The city’s parking program, ParkWise, is offering discounted parking rates at downtown garages to encourage visitors and shoppers to go to the area during major construction related to the modern street car.

Take walk down 4th Avenue for fun, food, art, attractions

The plate-steel menagerie of kinetic sculptures by Fredrick Prescott, one of hundreds of merchants at the 42nd annual Fourth Avenue Street Fair, includes a 600-pound, 6-foot-high dragon. The fair continues through Sunday.

Take walk down 4th Avenue for fun, food, art, attractions

The Fourth Avenue Spring Street Fair 2012 includes more than 35 food vendors and 40-plus arts and crafts booths along with concerts and street performers. There's a kids hands-on art pavilion, which includes activities by the Children's Museum Tucson, face painting, balloons and more.

Road runner: Even parking meters at the UA are smart now

Here's a riddle. What collects less change but makes more money?

Road runner: Plan your 4th Ave. Street Fair parking

When you visit the Fourth Avenue Winter Street Fair this weekend, you can expect to see a lot of construction projects.

New deans, majors, mondo video board

Freshman Emmy Adams of Las Vegas dines in the UA Student Union's newest restaurant, Sabor. The student center is also adding a new yogurt spot and will revamp patios.

New deans, majors, mondo video board

A lot has changed during the University of Arizona's summer break. Here's what you need to know about new faces and places on campus.

Prices hold for parking around UA campus

Here's one college cost that's not going up.

Cyclists, walkers get say on UA-area conditions

Pedestrians and bicyclists abound on and around the University of Arizona campus. A new online survey is asking people about their experiences walking and cycling in the UA area to improve safety and encourage more to commute by foot and by bike.