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Hip Bisbee is forward-looking, just down the road from Tombstone, which is not
By BRITTAN BATES Arizona Sonora News “Border town” is hardly what comes to mind when you stumble upon Bisbee, Arizona. There are no Border Patrol vehicles pulling over cars. The town doesn’t have a...
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You oughta be in pictures, Arizona. (Or so some say)
By Amber White Arizona Sonora News Arizona used to be a hot spot for major movie production — until state film tax subsidies were stripped away in 2010, while other states began luring Hollywood with...
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The Old West still resonates historically for Germans in Tombstone
By KYLE KOCHEVAR Arizona Sonora News “We came here for the cowboy shows,” said Dieter Fuchs, a tourist who was visiting Tombstone with his family recently. They had come a long way to spend a day in...
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Tombstone Dying? Not so fast, pardner!
By JULIANNE STANFORD Tombstone Bureau Chief / Arizona Sonora News It’s an overcast, early fall Sunday afternoon in Tombstone, and Allen Street is nearly empty. You can almost imagine a tumbleweed...
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Rock-climbing at Cochise Stronghold amid the spirit of the Apaches
By AUSTIN SOBOTKA Arizona Sonora News Service To the west, the shade of mesquite trees punctuates fields of tall beige grass. To the east, the fields flow into hills, and, suddenly, mountains: a...
View ArticleUniversity of Arizona 2016 Campus Safety, Security & Fire report released
Arizona Sonora News The annual Campus Safety, Security and Fire report was published Oct. 1 by the University of Arizona. In the crime statistics, there were 10 rapes reported on campus in 2015,...
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A lifeline to address hunger via ‘unwanted’ produce at border food warehouses
By TOBEY SCHMIDT Arizona Sonora News [With ASN video] NOGALES, Arizona — Farmers from Mexico bring nearly 20 million pounds of produce across the border into this once-bustling border town each year,...
View ArticleDeep in the desert, tropical parrots find an Oasis
By CHASTITY LASKEY CASCABEL, Arizona –Wikipedia dismisses this tiny village in the desert behind the Rincon Mountains east of Tucson as “a ghost town in Cochise County. ” It is an outpost in the middle...
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Reflections on the 2016 Election from First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech in...
First Lady Michelle Obama speaks about the importance of maintaining hope and the nation as whole at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Ariz. on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016. (Photo by Rebecca Noble...
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Up in the projection booth, showing movies the old-fashioned way in Tucson
By ALEXIS WRIGHT Arizona Sonora News Sweat collects on his brow, salty and profuse. He absentmindedly wipes it away with a roll of his shoulder and focuses on the gritty process in front of him. Pedro...
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The stars at night, they’re not so bright. Deep in the heart of Tucson.
By MIKAYLA MACE Arizona Sonora News Service The sun sets in Tucson; street lights blink on; storefronts glow. From downtown, you can see a handful of stars, and quite a bit more if you are in other...
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USS Arizona monument near completion on UA mall for Pearl Harbor 75th...
By KYLE KOCHEVAR Arizona Sonora News U.S.S. Arizona sails past the Statue of Liberty in 1927. (Courtesy of Special Collections at the University of Arizona Libraries) A monument to the USS Arizona, the...
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PAC 12: The score is money
By MICHELLE FLOYD Arizona Sonora News Let’s talk about everybody’s favorite subject: money. Not your money, don’t worry, but the finances of the Pacific-12 conference, also known as the PAC 12....
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McSally’s Chiricahua National Park Act could provide economic boost to...
By ALEX McINTYRE Arizona Sonora News WILLCOX–U.S. Rep. Martha McSally is promoting legislation to designate Chiricahua National Monument as a National Park. If the move is successful, Arizona would...
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Breaking News: TSA finds record number of guns this year at airport checkpoints
By KYLE KOCHEVAR Arizona Sonora News [Updated] With more than two months left in 2016, the Transportation Security Administration has already found a record number of guns in passengers’ carry-on bags...
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Tucson 3rd in U.S. for job growth … Wait, never mind!
By GABRIELLA VUKELIC Arizona Sonora News It was a news release guaranteed to get the attention of any local news-assignment editor: As the economic jobs picture improves nationally, Tucson was ranked...
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Tombstone’s budget: The numbers don’t add up
By JULIANNE STANFORD Tombstone Bureau Chief Tombstone is a wealthy city – or so it appears on paper. For each of the past three years, the City of Tombstone has planned for an income of more than $6...
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The Space Race of the past launched astronomy’s future in Tucson
By MIKAYLA MACE Arizona Sonora News On July 20, 1969, 600 million people watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon and say, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Little did...
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One fire-prevention option: Get a goat
By LEAH MERRALL Arizona Sonora News (Courtesy of Unsplash) When Smokey Bear started telling us back in 1944 that only we can prevent forest fires, he wasn’t exactly correct. Goats can help, too. In...
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