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 JESSICA KONG Arizona Sonora News Pushing back against declines in airline service that have been seen at all mid-sized and smaller airports in the U.S. in recent years, Tucson International Airport is launching new flights. On Friday, Oct. 7, new nonstop service between Tucson and New York’s Kennedy International airport will begin, four days…
By LEAH MERRALL Arizona Sonora News Instead of waking up in the morning to the blare of a leaf blower, lawn mower or chainsaw on landscape duty, why not wake up in peace and look out the window to see a team of livestock gently grazing your property and doing the exact same job? You might laugh,…
By NOUR HAKI Arizona Sonora News Service Everybody in southern Arizona knows what an evaporative cooler is. This technology, which pre-dated the wide residential availability of air conditioning, largely enabled a great population influx to the hotter, drier regions of the American Southwest in the 1940s through the 1960s. Now the same evaporation technique —…
By ALEXIS WRIGHT Arizona Sonora News Service Don’t be fooled by the white-throated wood rat with its big, brown eyes, petite round ears and fluffy snout. This seemingly innocent ball of fuzz is a Southwestern menace. And it can cost you. The packrat, or the Neotoma albigula as they are called, can do thousands of dollars of…
