Panel backs plan for new building for Arizona Public Media

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona Board of Regents panel has endorsed plans to build a new home for Arizona Public Media, a Tucson-based public broadcasting outlet hosted by the University of Arizona. A regents committee on Thursday approved a motion to construct a facility in a mixed development located about 3.5 miles south of the university main campus. The Arizona Daily Star reports that the $45 million project now awaits a final vote by the full Board of Regents later this month. A university administrator said a fundraising campaign that isn’t public yet has already raised three-quarters of the cost of the project from private donors.