Sasabe News

It has been painstakingly restored, maintaining its charm and history, and now guests can relax and enjoy the beauty of the desert.

A woman killed in a rollover crash Wednesday night south of Three Points has been identified as 23-year-old Lauren Chacora.

If a costly surveillance system billed as a "virtual fence" to protect the Southwest border cannot prove its effectiveness in 2010 at test sites in Arizona, federal officials should scrap it, a top government analyst told a key House panel Thursday.

Quinn Schuler reports New border cameras will be up and running soon Along milepost 12 on AZ-286 near Sasabe, construction workers are finishing installation on one of nine permanent towers near the border.

The first stretch of the government's new "virtual" border fence is nearing completion in southern Arizona.

Three of Arizona's six border crossings are reporting normal or lighter traffic and no problems for Americans returning from Mexico on the first day of stricter identification requirements.

Tucson broke two weather records Thursday - for rainfall and lowest high temperature for the date.

Sandy Rathbun reports Feds building new virtual fence in Sasabe You've heard the saying "if at first you don't succeed, try again." That's what the federal government is doing along the U.S.-Mexico border in Sasabe.

Federal officials expect to have the 17 towers that form the backbone of the latest version of the virtual fence up by mid-July and in the hands of the Border Patrol by the end of the year.