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 million to be spent on annual expenses such as the city council, public services and infrastructure repairs….

By AMANDA MARTINEZ Arizona Sonora News Gilbert Martinez is a 20-year-old auto glass repair technician who lives in Arizona. His life is typical in many ways: He gets up, goes to work, hangs out with his friends and plays video games for hours, but his driving motivation in life is to buy and take Xanax….

By EMILY GAUCI Creative Director/Arizona Sonora News With the start of the 2016-2017 Arizona Basketball season approaching 20 years after the 1996-1997 team won the national title, three former basketball players and a former Arizona coach from the championship team reflect on the winning season.  “There were a lot of questions heading into the season…” They were…

By LEAH MERRALL Arizona Sonora News 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 fact, a number of government agencies, including the United States Forest Service, the Arizona State Land Department and the Bureau of Land Management, have…

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 gain its fourth National Park. H.R. 6190, known as the Chiricahua National Park Act, would shift the 12,000 acres of the National Monument in Cochise County…