History

Desert Botanical Garden, celebrating its 80th anniversary in February, has a life story kind of like a cactus: hardscrabble persistence punctuated by blooms of colorful characters.

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.

After four decades of disuse and a parade of frustrated owners, Arizona’s first resort is finally reborn.

In 1927, the nation sank its fangs into the real-life drama of a Hollywood lion stranded in Arizona’s Rim Country.

Nostalgic motorists are rediscovering U.S. 80, a historic southern Arizona highway that has long been overshadowed by Route 66.