Catalina St. Park celebrates 30th anniversary

Catalina State Park — a preserve of grand desert landscapes and curvaceous canyons set against a backdrop of the craggy Catalina Mountains — turns 30 years old this month.

Town of Ajo is awarded wildlife-friendly title

At Triangle Park in Ajo, a planter box is revegetated with native plants. The town recently was awarded a "Wildlife Habitat" certificate for its overall efforts.

Town of Ajo is awarded wildlife-friendly title

The one-time mining town of Ajo has become the 65th community in the country - and only the second in Arizona - to be certified as a "Community Wildlife Habitat."

Buffelgrass poses urban fire risk

Buffelgrass blankets a vacant lot across from the Tucson Marketplace on South Park Avenue north of I-10.

Buffelgrass poses urban fire risk in Tucson

Invasive, highly flammable buffelgrass is spreading like a weedy plague across the Tucson urban area - choking out native plants and posing a fire threat to homes and other property.

Now is the time to pick fruit off your barrel cactus

Here's one more wonder of life in the Sonoran Desert: Wild-growing fruit is just now coming into its edible prime - never mind that it's almost winter.

Now is the time to pick fruit off your barrel cactus

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From food cart to food court: Tucson Fatdogs opens at mall

Tucson Mall restaurant features behemoth Sonoran hot dog.

Pilot killed in crash near Yuma was Tucsonan

Authorities have identified a pilot killed in a plane crash on the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range, near Yuma, as 49-year-old Tucson resident Denise Jeanette McCracken.