Valley NewsLand Zo: Saguaro Standoff
Developer and community tangle over proposed rezoning near the Phoenix Sonoran Preserve.
Developer and community tangle over proposed rezoning near the Phoenix Sonoran Preserve.
Notorious Hollywood evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson reappeared in Douglas, Arizona, after “drowning” weeks earlier in the Pacific Ocean in 1926.
Elevating a humble state college in Tempe to university status – and creating the educational juggernaut we know today – ended a decades-long battle with a certain “old pueblo” to the south.
Carefree and Cave Creek are wrangling over water customers.
A former Methodist church in Phoenix repurposed as the Taco Guild restaurant still attracts faithful parishioners.
Isabella Greenway was Arizona’s first congresswoman, a confidant of Eleanor Roosevelt and an entrepreneur who founded the Arizona Inn in Tucson.
Sunnyslope originated as a haven for indigent tuberculosis patients hoping to be cured by the Valley’s dry, warm air.
The bygone Arizona hamlets of Hightown, Weedville and Norton’s Corner had unusual names – and even more unusual histories.
Phoenix labors to fix its leaky water pipes during a decades-long drought.
The Phoenix Racquets of World Team Tennis smashed overheads and sports barriers during their successful run in the mid-1970s.
KNIX’s 50 years of broadcasting country music as one of the nation’s top stations has been one wild hayride
The Central Arizona Project celebrates its 50th Anniversary while facing a drought that may impact 80 percent of the population.
For two decades beginning in 1963, Tucson was ringed by 18 missile silos with enough combined might to trigger a nuclear apocalypse.
A former Route 66 diner near Roosevelt Row creates an atmosphere that stimulates appetites, conversation and nostalgia.
In 1927, the nation sank its fangs into the real-life drama of a Hollywood lion stranded in Arizona’s Rim Country.