While growing up in Arizona, I’d heard about the otherworldly blue waters that run through Havasu Canyon and dreamed of trekking to the oasis. During my last semester of college, I teamed up with four friends to make the 10-mile hike to the bottom to see for myself. Nestled in Grand Canyon National Park, Havasu…
Tucsonans were alarmed last month when a New York investment firm announced it had purchased the beloved local fast-food chain Eegee’s. “It kind of feels like a betrayal, like that was ours,” said Tucson local Christine Barton. She remembers loading up into cars with friends from Sunnyside High School to grab Eegee’s drinks at one…
Who would have thought that Sahuarita would become more than a sleepy bedroom community? Sahuarita was incorporated as a town in 1994 with about 2,000 residents. Twenty-four years later, it boasts 30,000 residents, making it one of the largest communities southeast of Tucson. Sahuarita saw a 600 percent increase in population between 2000 and 2010….
