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You oughta be in pictures, Arizona. (Or so some say)
By Amber White Arizona Sonora News Arizona used to be a hot spot for major movie production — until state film tax subsidies were stripped away in 2010, while other states began luring Hollywood with...
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You know Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. But do you know the ladies of old...
By MICHELLE FLOYD Arizona Sonora News In the town that billed itself as being “Too Tough to Die,” the women were even tougher. Everyone has heard of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday and John Ringo . But...
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The Old West still resonates historically for Germans in Tombstone
By KYLE KOCHEVAR Arizona Sonora News “We came here for the cowboy shows,” said Dieter Fuchs, a tourist who was visiting Tombstone with his family recently. They had come a long way to spend a day in...
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Tombstone Dying? Not so fast, pardner!
By JULIANNE STANFORD Tombstone Bureau Chief / Arizona Sonora News It’s an overcast, early fall Sunday afternoon in Tombstone, and Allen Street is nearly empty. You can almost imagine a tumbleweed...
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Rock-climbing at Cochise Stronghold amid the spirit of the Apaches
By AUSTIN SOBOTKA Arizona Sonora News To the west, the shade of mesquite trees punctuates fields of tall beige grass. To the east, the fields flow into hills, and, suddenly, mountains: a labyrinth of...
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Tucson 3rd in U.S. for job growth … Wait, never mind!
By GABRIELLA VUKELIC Arizona Sonora News It was a news release guaranteed to get the attention of any local news-assignment editor: As the economic jobs picture improves nationally, Tucson was ranked...
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Snowbirds arrive as bats depart at Kartchner Caverns
By JESSICA KONG Arizona Sonora News As fall weather rolls around, snowbirds start returning to Kartchner Caverns in Cochise County. At the same time, another type of critter, bats that inhabit the...
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USS Arizona monument near completion on UA mall for Pearl Harbor 75th...
By KYLE KOCHEVAR Arizona Sonora News USS Arizona steams past the Statue of Liberty in 1927. (Special Collections at the University of Arizona Libraries) A monument to the USS Arizona, the battleship...
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Tombstone’s budget: The numbers don’t add up
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...
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Chiricahua National Park Act could provide economic boost to Cochise County
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...
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The Space Race of the past launched astronomy’s future in Tucson
By MIKAYLA MACE Arizona Sonora News On July 20, 1969, 600 million people watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon and say, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Little did...
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One fire-prevention option: Get a goat
By LEAH MERRALL Arizona Sonora News (Courtesy of Unsplash) 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...
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A ‘Bear Down’ reflection: A championship season for ’97 Arizona basketball team
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...
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For S. Arizona ranchers, range fires are part of the routine
By SYDNEY RICHARDSON Arizona Sonora News Out of all the conflicts that might arise from trying to make your livelihood off of ranching cattle, the last thing ranchers in the Sonoran Desert want to deal...
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Vintage Cochise County: Arizona wines come into their own
By NATALIA V. NAVARRO Arizona Sonora News Small groups of families and friends wanderedx the dozens of local wine, art, and food tents at the Willcox Wine Country Festival on a Sunday in October. A...
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Xanax and the new generation of addiction
By AMANDA MARTINEZ Arizona Sonora News Xanax believed to have been brought from Mexico. (Photo: Tucson Police Department) Gilbert Martinez is a 20-year-old auto glass repair technician who lives in...
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A new movie’s perspective (actually 6 perspectives) on the O.K. Corral gunfight
Arizona Sonora News (Location photo: Tombstone Rashomon, Alex Cox Films) Like most Americans with an interest in Old West history, you probably think you know the basic story of the Gunfight at O.K....
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For Syrian refugees in Tucson, the fog of war yields to a struggle to persevere
By NOUR HAKI Arizona Sonora News A young girl shrieks to her mother for help. She is trapped underneath the rubble of what was once her home. The boom of the air missiles echo in the air, overpowering...
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Military retirees in Tucson: 4,000 planes at the Air Force ‘Boneyard’
Retired planes in the aircraft “Boneyard.” (Photo by Luke Soroko) BY LUKE SOROKO Arizona Sonora News Every Fall, snowbirds join locals and other visitors to experience Tucson’s hidden gem. The Air...
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