Sonoita News

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 .

There were only a handful of wineries in southern Arizona when the Harvesting of the Vine Festival started 27 years ago.

Southern Arizona, land of ocotillo, ironwood, mesquite, and saguaro cacti, seems like one of the least likely places in the U.S.A., or on earth, to yield quality wines.

The traditions of the Old West live on today in many ways. One of the most popular is the rodeo, a chance for cowboys and cowgirls to show off their riding, roping and wrangling skills.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have arrested two woman for attempting to smuggle marijuana into the U.S. in two separate incidents at the border crossing between Lukeville, Ariz.