Sonoita News

SONOITA, AZ a ' Border Patrol agents in Sonoita recovered over 1,000 pounds of marijuana from an abandoned vehicle on Tuesday, according to authorities.

Thinking of interstate frontage road accommodations usually conjures thoughts of hotels with numbers in the title or creatively misspelled marquees promising "Free Y-fi" or "Continual Brkfest!" True, the sprawling acreage of Amado Territory Ranch begins mere yards from Interstate 19, but that only means that travelers are much closer to a Sonoran ...

United Steelworkers Local 937, which represents 250 workers at the Mission and Silverbell copper mines, hopes to represent all workers at the proposed Rosemont Mine if it is approved and built in the Santa Rita Mountains southeast of Tucson.

Have you ever wanted to wander back in history? Back to a time where the ladies were gentler and the men nobler? Back to a time where kings fought in wars alongside their knights? Once a year for the past seven years, history has wandered forward in time to the Winkelman Flats.

A four-count federal indictment was unsealed today against former U.S. Border Patrol Agent Yamilkar Fierros, of Tucson, for allegedly accepting bribes.

As a young woman, Larcena was kidnapped, stabbed, beaten and left for dead by a band of Apaches.

A former U.S. Border Patrol agent was arrested Friday and charged with accepting bribes from drug traffickers in Southern Arizona.

Click here for a free download of the latest Adobe Flash Player. Posted on October 21, 2009 at 5:18 PM The Arizona Department of Transportation plans to straighten out what's called the "most dangerous curve" for motorcycles in Arizona.

Drug smugglers are now using horses to carry loads of marijuana across the border, authorities said.

TUCSON, AZ a ' U.S. Border Patrol Agents in southern Arizona seized more than 2,400 pounds of marijuana, valued around $2 million, during two separate incidents on Sunday and Monday.

One of several horses border agents say were used to bring more than 900 pounds of pot over the border a U.S. Border Patrol Agents made two substantial drug busts this week resulting in the seizure of about 2,400 pounds of weed, 971 of which were being moved on horseback.

Lisa Callaghan applies labels to bottles at her family's winery in Elgin, Ariz. Every bottle of wine is hand labeled.

The other is not. Located 7 miles northwest of Sonoita in the Nogales Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest, Kentucky Camp offers an interesting glimpse at history and serves as a great base for exploring area ghost towns, bird-watching or hiking among the cool, rolling grasslands surrounding the Santa Rita Mountains.

But here in this southern Arizona town, surrounded by endless, rolling green and amber hills, the Callaghan family is de-stemming gigantic bins of grapes that will eventually produce a nice Petit Verdot .

The Tetra Tech design firm will turn over its computerized 3-D images of the Rosemont Mine site to Rosemont Copper Co.'s landscape contractor a ' Sage Landscape of Tucson a ' in the next few days.

For the Weekend Roundup, we bring downtown. Tucson Meet Yourself is a celebration of entertainment and food by Southern Arizona's folk and ethnic communities.

The Patagonia Fall Fest is a richness of food, crafts and lots and lots of music.

CANELO a ' Welcome to a tiny dot on the map. There is almost nothing here a ' and so much to see.

Q. Can dairy products be frozen for future use? A. Dairy products are best consumed fresh and, for the most part, do not take well to freezing.

Charles Bowden moved to Tucson in August 1957 and attended Mansfield Middle School and Tucson High School; he later took a job at the Tucson Citizen .