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Ongoing concerns that drug-related violence in Mexico poses a threat to American communities remain the Obama administration's border focus, the federal government's border czar said Wednesday.
Long dependent on wellwater and supplies sent hundreds of miles by canal from the Colorado River, this desert city will soon harvest some of its 12 inches of annual rainfall to help bolster its water resources.
Thousands of Jerry's Kids won't be going to summer camp this year because of the swine flu.
Illegal border crossings have dwindled so much in southwestern Arizona that Marine Corps pilots rarely have to abort practice bombing runs any more on their vast desert target range.
The driver of a van filled with refugees from Africa lost control and crashed on a southern Arizona highway Wednesday, killing five people and injuring 12 others, authorities said.
A woman who had been arrested and placed in the back of a police cruiser was fatally burned Wednesday when another car slammed into the parked cruiser, igniting both vehicles and another cruiser in front, authorities said.
A woman shot and wounded during a weekend home invasion that left her husband and 10-year-old daughter dead fired back at several intruders who thought they had killed her, a sheriff's official said Tuesday.
The Arizona attorney general's office voluntarily withdrew an antitrust lawsuit challenging Gannett Co.'s closure of the Tucson Citizen newspaper.
The Tucson Citizen won't be forced to resume publication.
A federal judge will rule Tuesday on whether the Tucson Citizen must resume publication after the Arizona Attorney General complained that Gannett Co. and Lee Enterprises Inc. violated antitrust laws by ending their joint operating agreement and stopping daily publication of the newspaper.
The headline on the final print edition of Saturday's Tucson Citizen newspaper fittingly said it all: Our epitaph.
The headline on the final print edition of Saturday's Tucson Citizen newspaper said it all: Our epitaph.
Federal officials plan to start construction within weeks on a new "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border that they say could almost completely cover the nearly 2,000-mile frontier within five years.
Savana Redding was 13 years old when she was told to remove her clothes for a strip search by school officials looking for the equivalent of two Advils. And while the humiliation hasn't diminished in the past five and a half years, she hopes the U.S. Supreme Court can do something about the emotional scar.
On her first visit to Arizona as Homeland Security secretary, Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that requests to return the National Guard to duty along the U.S.-Mexico border are under review.
Illegal immigrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border have risen in the past six months despite a nearly 25 percent drop in arrests by the Border Patrol, according to patrol statistics.
A federal judge in Texas has ordered a subsidiary of mining giant Grupo Mexico SAB to return stock in a Peruvian mining company once owned by copper miner Asarco LLC to the bankrupt Tucson, Ariz.-based company.
A judge on Tuesday ordered federal wildlife officials to reconsider how to help endangered jaguars survive, saying the decision to not protect habitat for them was based on bad criteria and inconsistent with the Endangered Species Act.
The Tucson Citizen will not close as planned on Saturday because there are continuing negotiations with two interested buyers, the newspaper's publisher, Gannett Co. Inc., announced Tuesday.
Smugglers facing strengthened border defenses have turned to an old and risky tactic — using single-seat ultralight aircraft to fly marijuana loads into the country.
A Phoenix Zoo veterinarian who treated a euthanized jaguar says the animal had kidney disease, likely aggravated by the stress of being captured and tranquilized.
A federal jury on Tuesday rejected several claims by a group of illegal immigrants who claimed a southern Arizona rancher detained them at gunpoint, but found the rancher liable for assault and infliction of emotional distress.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said he is troubled by the increasingly politicized nature of the Senate judicial confirmation process.
From Flagstaff to Lake Havasu, Arizonans are suddenly clamoring to claim an allegiance to the Cardinals and climb aboard their bandwagon — at least through the Super Bowl.
A 13-year-old boy was sentenced Friday to at least four years in juvenile corrections custody for shooting his mother to death.
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