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Panel looks at creating new Southern Arizona state
Some Southern Arizonans are joining forces to push for the creation of a 51st state carved out of Pima County. The new state would be called Baja Arizona.
Tucson firefighter refused call to shooting scene
City memos show a veteran firefighter's refused to respond to last month's deadly shooting spree in Tucson, citing "political bantering."
Transforming turn-of-the-century Tucson
The view across 1880s Tucson from Sentinel Peak toward the barely visible Santa Catalina Mountains reveals a snapshot of a town on the cusp of an evolution.
9-year-old shooting victim was aspiring politician
At age 9, Christina Taylor Green was already an aspiring politician with hopes of being the first woman to play major league baseball.
Suspect in attack on congresswoman acted alone
Federal prosecutors brought charges Sunday against the gunman accused of attempting to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six people at a political event in Arizona.
Tucson lands federal grant for streetcar project
Tucson officials say the city has secured a $63 million federal grant for its modern streetcar project.
Tent City Hero
Sporting a pitch helmet, linen suit and big white mutton-chop sideburns, Oliver E. Comstock pedaled his bicycle along Tucson’s dusty roads with a soup kettle hanging from the handlebars. He will never be as famous as Wyatt Earp, but he was a real hero to the residents of southern Arizona’s Tent City.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol chief being reassigned
The chief of the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector is being reassigned just nine months after he took the post.
Tucson’s nymphs de pave
Maiden Lane bordered Congress Street, and between the two was a stretch of “unholy” land shaped like a thin slice of pie and called the wedge — pictured here in the accompanying turn-of-the-century photo. The red light district was anything but invisible.
Times Past: The ‘Mother of Arizona’
Gov. George W. P. Hunt called Josephine Brawley Hughes “the Mother of Arizona.” She fought for women’s suffrage and prohibition of drinking and gambling. She even fought to ban smoking in public. In Arizona’s rowdy territorial days she was often laughed at, but she prevailed courageously.
Scarpinato to take helm of Yellow Sheet
On September 1, Daniel Scarpinato, the Capitol correspondent for the Arizona Daily Star, will become editor of the Yellow Sheet Report, a subscription, Web-based, daily newsletter covering politics and government.
Goddard shot down in attempt to immediately stop Citizen closure
A federal judge on May 19 refused Attorney General Terry Goddard's request to immediately stop the state's oldest continually publishing newspaper from shutting down operations.
