Arizona Edition Friday is KAWC's weekly look at topics and people shaping the community, with insightful conversations and in depth reporting from the field.

Today we sit down with San Luis Police and Fire Chiefs to hear about some of the challenges and successes in their departments as they serve a community that is growing faster than 92 percent of similar U.S. cities over the last quarter century.

Marines train in hand-to-hand fighting techniques and get some encouragement from a former MMA fighter at MCAS-YUMA.

The stop gap for migrant releases in Yuma County is the Regional Center for Border Health in Somerton, AZ. A look inside the agency's processing facility.

In the 1930s Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter wanted to gather and catalogue plants in the Grand Canyon, and while the details of their journey are amazing – how they became scientists, faced sexism and danger, and changed the field of botany is equally as engaging.

Arizona Edition Friday is KAWC's weekly look at topics and people shaping the community, with insightful conversations and in depth reporting from the field.

Julie Murphree of the Arizona Fram Bureau shares her insight on the latest Farms Census from the Department of Agriculture.

Arizona Edition Friday is KAWC's weekly look at topics and people shaping the community, with insightful conversations and in depth reporting from the field.

The endangered Sonoran Pronghorn can be found inside of the Barry M. Goldwater Mountain Ranges, which are managed by the U.S. Marine Corps and Air force.

Buffelgrass is changing rocky terrain into grassland, providing a path for fire between decades old saguaro cactus that did not exist before.