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 reputation for drug trafficking, or undocumented immigrants walking in with nothing but the clothing on their backs. Instead Bisbee is a…
By SARA HARELSON Arizona Sonora News Service The roadrunner was strolling through in the grass, looking around and soaking up the afternoon sun, as docile as a kitten. But in a flash, the roadrunner sprang up and snatched a lizard sunbathing on a wall, then bashed the poor critter violently to the ground, knocking it…
[Top: Primary school students in Paraguay find creative uses for discarded plastics. Photo by Alex Duello] By Emily Ellis Arizona Sonora News After its journey home as a sack for groceries or books or clothing, the plastic bag is destined to live on, in many different ways. It might end up wadded in a ball…
[UPDATED May 16 — It’s Ice Break Day The official temperature hit 100 degrees in Tucson for the first time this year at 3.54 p.m. today.] The sun is shining, the temperatures are climbing; the snowbirds are fleeing from whence they came, and it already hit 100 degrees in Phoenix. Okay, Tucson. You’re up. In…
Why in the world does anyone go to a tanning parlor in a place where the sun shines 85 percent of daylight time in any given year? “The fact that there is sun doesn’t make it any less of a market, ” said Ryan Boyle, the owner of Tan-Tastic, a tanning parlor on Fort Lowell…
