Facing an enormous and growing debt in both police and fire department pension accounts, the City of South Tucson may soon become the 10th local government in the United States to file for bankruptcy since 2010. Due to poor financial planning and a major hit to South Tucson’s investment assets during the economic recession in 2008, the city…
Off of a gravel service road, at the Petrified Forest National Park, rests a pile of shame and abandonment that cannot be found on any park map. The pile is the size of a pickup but is composed of rocks that are actually pieces of petrified wood, according to Ryan Thompson, an author who chronicled the…
Take our short quiz to find out what iconic Arizona Sonoran Desert animal you are. Click here to see the other animals you were not. Victoria Teplitz is a reporter for Arizona Sonora News, a service from the School of Journalism with the University of Arizona. Contact her at vteplitz@email.arizona.edu
Hugging close to the border, tourists may not think of visiting the communities of Tubac and Tumacácori. But given the chance, the two sites north of Nogales on Interstate 19 can make for a historical and colorful day trip. History at the Park The entrance of Tumacácori is bland and walled off, making it easy to…
It was once thought to be impossible that anything could push the limits of the small hippy town of Bisbee. But Phoenix artist Eric Kasper found what makes Bisbee squeamish. The unlikely pair of pornography and horse genitalia have sent both Kasper and Bisbee on quite the ride. Kasper’s paintings initially premiered in the new…
