Marana News

AMADO - On 63 acres in the picturesque Santa Cruz Valley, Stewart Loew raises cattle and grows organic lettuce, onions, pumpkins and other produce.

Officers with the Department of Public Safety recently seized nearly $200,000 in suspected drug-related cash last week during routine traffic stops, authorities said.

Former Tucson City Manager Mike Hein has been hired to head the county Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security.

Marana has a newly created position for a Regional Emergency Response Planner. For now.

Pima County received a single proposal to build an ice rink in Marana. The county put out a request for proposals earlier this year to build an ice rink on county-owned parcels in Maranaa s Ted Walker Park, near the Mike Jacob Sports Park on the west side of Interstate 10 off West Ina Road.

Enjoy a warm drink the night before Halloween at the Rock-n-Java coffee shop . Fright Night features free popcorn and half price pumplkin lattes.

Anyone wanting a free H1N1 vaccine this week might want to head to Tucson Electric Park right now.

Authorities say they have arrested a Phoenix man in connection with a string of bank robberies around Arizona.

Acres of cotton planted across the U.S. 61 cents Average price per pound U.S. farmers received for cotton in 2008 45 cents Average price U.S. farmers received in 2009, through August SOURCES: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Cotton Council "We've had to continue finding ways to cut costs.

Salon owner went from styling Barbie's hair to being her own boss a ' at only 25 By Joyce Bertschy Published: 10.22.2009 At age 15, Stacey Epperson was already passionate about hair and her career had already begun with a job as a receptionist at a chain salon in Tucson.

Click here for a free download of the latest Adobe Flash Player. Posted on October 22, 2009 at 5:07 PM Progress being made on the new six story Martin Luther King apartment building at Depot Plaza.

A 79-year-old man reported missing by his family was found safe today. Ronald Bowyer was discovered missing from his home about 7:30 a.m. Bowyer has the beginning stages of dementia and is easily confused, according to a news release from the Pima County Sheriff's Department.

In the first week of November, the Marana Regional Airport will host a photo-documentary project called "Desert Birds." Photographer Werner Bartsch a ' sponsored by German publication Die Zeit a ' will record the relationship between technology and nature and the interplay between humanity and its environment.

The nonprofit Catalina Community Services' first "Fill the Shed" food drive will continue through the end of October.

If you're on the edge of your seat waiting for the new district park to open at North Silverbell and North Cortaro roads in Marana, you only have a little longer.

Arnold L. Geib, child molester. a A Pima County judge sentenced a Marana man to 17-years in prison yesterday for molesting three boys more than 10 years ago.

While bracing for an expected increase in the number of sick students because of the H1N1 virus, local school districts have plans in place to deal with a widespread flu outbreak.

The Ritz Carlton at Dove Mountain in Marana is the extraordinary setting for a vintner dinner hosted by Dennis Cakebread of Cakebread Cellars of Napa Valley on Wednesday, October 21.

Eleven frontage-road businesses have been affected by the road work, and 10 of them are working with the Regional Transportation Authority's Main Street business-assistance program.

Critics of Pima County Supervisor Sharon Bronson formally initiated a recall petition drive Wednesday.