Event focuses on healthy living

Darryl Wang, right, chef and manager at Lotus Garden restaurant, leads a demonstration on healthy cooking during Healthy Eating and Living Asian Style at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center, 1288 W. River Road. The event is in honor of World Tai Chi and National Asian Heritage Month. There we…

Event focuses on healthy living

The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy provided free health screenings for attendees at the April 20 event.

Event focuses on healthy living

A Chinese lion was on display at the Healthy Eating and Living Asian Style event at the cultural center.

Event focuses on healthy living

Dongxiao Zhang, left, of the Confucius Institute at the University of Arizona, helps Amy Wang, center, and Linda Wu during a class on Chinese instruments.

Event focuses on healthy living

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Event focuses on healthy living

Target shooting banned at Ironwood Forest park

A bullet-riddled BLM sign warns that it's illegal to leave shotgun shells behind at Ironwood Forest National Monument.

Target shooting banned at Ironwood Forest park

Officials said they believed shotgun blasts felled this saguaro in an area used for wildcat target shooting at Ironwood Forest.

2013 Tucson Rodeo Parade

Tucson Police officers near Park Ave. and Irvington Road during the 2013 Tucson Rodeo Parade on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.

2013 Tucson Rodeo Parade

Catalina Foothills High School marching bank near Park Ave. and Irvington Road during the 2013 Tucson Rodeo Parade on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.

2013 Tucson Rodeo Parade

Tohono O'Odham Nation float near Park Ave. and Irvington Road during the 2013 Tucson Rodeo Parade on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.

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Near Park Ave. and Irvington Road during the 2013 Tucson Rodeo Parade on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.

2013 Tucson Rodeo Parade

League of Mexican American Women float ear Park Ave. and Irvington Road during the 2013 Tucson Rodeo Parade on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.

Tucson Rodeo Parade

Mark Kelly and former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the Grand Marshals of the parade, near Park Ave. and Irvington Road during the 2013 Tucson Rodeo Parade on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.

Streetcar work to be done by 4th Ave. fair's opening

Workers gauge track before concrete is poured at Fourth Avenue and Eighth Street. The project should be finished a few days before the Fourth Avenue Winter Street Fair opens Dec. 7.

2012 El Tour de Tucson

Cyclists turn from southbound Thornydale Road to westbound Tangerine Road during the El Tour de Tucson in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012.

2012 El Tour de Tucson

Spectators on Thornydale Road north of Tangerine Road during the El Tour de Tucson in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012.

2012 El Tour de Tucson

K.C. Engelmann alternately reads and cheers while waiting for her partner Linsay Hernon to pass by at Thornydale Road and Tangerine Road during the El Tour de Tucson in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012.

2012 El Tour de Tucson

Cyclists on northbound Oracle Road near 1st Ave. pedal past Pusch Ridge during the El Tour de Tucson in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012.

2012 El Tour de Tucson

Khanh Ngo, foreground, and other cyclists peddle their way up Oracle Road at Suffolk Drive during the El Tour de Tucson in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012.

2012 El Tour de Tucson

Spectators watch cyclists make the turn from westbound Ina Road to northbound Oracle Road during the El Tour de Tucson in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012.

2012 El Tour de Tucson

Dave Heisley, left in yellow, cruises alongside road bikes on northbound Oracle Road at Suffolk Drive during the El Tour de Tucson in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012.

It's festival season on NW side

Navajo artist Randy Keedah of Keedah's Fine Art in Picture Rocks paints a saguaro during the Tangerine Crossing Art Festival. Event organizer Bowman Productions will have two more festivals this year. The first will be Nov. 24-25 at Catalina Foothills High School and the second will be Dec. …

It's festival season on NW side

People gaze at geodes, minerals and jewelry at Dave's Fine Gems and Jewelry. The festival was held Saturday and Sunday at the Tangerine Crossing Shopping Center at Thornydale and Tangerine roads in Marana.

It's festival season on NW side

Fire at McKale Center

Tucson firefighters outside McKale Center on the University of Arizona campus after fighting a fire in an equipment room on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012.

Fire at McKale Center

Tucson firefighters outside McKale Center on the University of Arizona campus after fighting a fire in an equipment room on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012.

El Tour de Tucson: Volunteers key to 30th edition of race

Cyclists on Ina Road, Silverbell Road and Moore Road during the 2012 El Tour de Tucson bike race on November 25, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz. Photo by Rick Wiley, Arizona Daily Star.

Ring's reflections: Primer on our mountains continues

Snow blanketed the Tucson Mountains back in February 2011. Wasson Peak, at right, is the highest mountain in the range at 4,687 feet.

Shooting involving two small children

A mother is accused of shooting and killing a one-year-old boy and four-year-old girl near Valencia and I-19 on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012.

Posner's Art Store will move to Main Gate Square in July

Posner's Art Store, a longtime fixture on Park Avenue south of Speedway, is moving to 944 E. University Blvd., where construction on the new two-story store is under way.

Tucson tech: One-stop development shop

Tucson-based Aztera LLC has helped Redflow Ltd. of Brisbane, Australia, install four of its zinc-bromide modules in the U.S. for testing.

Altar Valley pipeline plan fuels host of area concerns

Melissa Owen shows the boundary between the private Sierra Vista Ranch, where she has a vineyard, and the federal Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, right. She is concerned the pipeline might cut a large right of way across her and her husband's land.

Tucson tech: One-stop development shop

The Blood Hound, a device that Aztera helped develop for Solvonics Medical in Chandler, uses special LED lighting to help health-care providers locate veins.

Social Security, health dominate CD8 debate Last forum sees Barber, Kelly staking out familiar ground

It was a hot day, so a campaign sign provided a handy sun shade for attendees waiting for the debate to begin.

Social Security, health dominate CD8 debate Last forum sees Barber, Kelly staking out familiar ground

Sharon Boose, a security officer with the Jewish Community Center, stands ready to help children through a crosswalk.

District 8 Debate

Republican candidate for Congress, Jesse Kelly, greets people standing in line before the U.S. Congressional District 8 special election debate at the Tucson Jewish Community Center, Wed. May 23, 2012.

District 8 Debate

Sharon Boose, a security officer with the Jewish Community Center, stands ready to help children through the crosswalk as people line up prior to the U.S. Congressional District 8 special election debate at the Tucson Jewish Community Center, Wed. May 23, 2012.

District 8 Debate

People standing in line shield themselves from the sun before the U.S. Congressional District 8 special election debate at the Tucson Jewish Community Center, Wed. May 23, 2012.

District 8 Debate

Staffers for the Ron Barber congressional campaign hand out water before the U.S. Congressional District 8 special election debate at the Tucson Jewish Community Center, Wed. May 23, 2012.

Freeport-McMoRan will pay $6.8M to settle enviro case

State authorities and federal prosecutors alleged that Freeport-McMoRan was civilly liable for injuries to natural resources that resulted from hazardous-substance releases at and from the site of the copper mine.

News & Notes

Freeport-McMoRan's Morenci copper mine. The Phoenix-based company lowered its sales-volume estimates Thursday because of a shutdown at a troubled Indonesian mine.

Arts and Crafts shows pop up on northwest side

The sun peeks through a colorful wind spinner that is sold by Dubeair, which stands for the husband-and-wife team of Duaine and Beulah Adair.

Beyond Tucson events on Saturday, Jan. 7

People gaze that the memorial to the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting victims at the Safeway at Ina and Oracle on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. Photo by Rick Wiley, Arizona Daily Star

Beyond Tucson events on Saturday, Jan. 7

Plaque honoring the victims of the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting at the Safeway at Ina and Oracle on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. Photo by Rick Wiley, Arizona Daily Star