Who remembers when the Tanque Verde Swap Meet was on Tanque Verde?
50 years ago, nearly 2,600 500-pound U.S. Navy bombs on a train detonated in three massive explosions near Dragoon, Ariz.
It was "a beautiful day in the neighborhood" when Fred Rogers, or "Mr. Rogers," the famous TV childrens' show host, visited KUAT-TV and local Tucson kids 50 years ago.
The Legal Tender on West Congress St. in downtown Tucson was the home of a stiff drink and a fight or two from the 1880s until it was demolished during "urban renewal" in 1969, which brought the Tucson Convention Center, Arizona Hotel and the Pima County Administration and Courts buildings.
Nearly 40-percent of Old Tucson Studios, including many of the most-famous wood structures seen in Westerns, was destroyed by fire on April 24, 1995.
The Cleveland Indians trained at Hi Corbett Field in Tucson from 1946-1992. Celebrities like Bob Hope and MLB commentator Joe Garagiola were regulars at games.
McKale Memorial Center on the University of Arizona campus is the home of Arizona Wildcats basketball, gymnastics and volleyball.
Take a step back in time to see the people, events, and issues of Tucson and the University of Arizona in 1965.
89 years ago on Jan. 25, 1934, John Dillinger and his crew of criminals — Charley Makley, Russell Clark and Harry Pierpont — were captured in Tucson following a string of jail breaks and robberies in the Midwest.
The annual Winterhaven Festival of Lights during the Christmas holiday season in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
The sleepy Cortaro General Store was one of a handful of buildings and tenants at Cortaro Road and I-10 in the late 70s. The store's quiet life was peppered with a suicide in the phone booth in 1959, an armed robbery and robbery, a stabbing of a store clerk in the 70s and a sink hole in 1982…
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy made a stop in Tucson in March, 1968, during his campaign for President of the United States. He spoke to crowds at Tucson International Airport and the University of Arizona.
From Ernest Hemingway to Betty White, here are some times famous people visited Tucson in decades past, with photos from archives of the Arizona Daily Star and Tucson Citizen.
In 1953, the Strategic Air Command brought the jet age to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson with dozens of Boeing B-47 Stratojet bombers as part of U.S. efforts to counter the Soviet threat of invasion. The planes could carry conventional and nuclear payloads 3,000 miles before refuelin…
The death occurred outside of the regular flu season and was within a generally low-risk age group, prompting health officials to urge flu shots.
Tucson candlemaker Maria Jose Cortes, owner of Di Luna Candles, is opening her first brick-and-mortar shop on June 4.
Tucson City Council has set the spending cap for next fiscal year before it's set to approve a final spending plan on June 6.
The Wildcats got out in front in the third and tied it in the third, but the Ducks came back both times to clinch in the Pac 12 tournament final 5-4 at Scottsdale Stadium, Scottsdale, Ariz., May 27, 2023.
WASHINGTON – Ranchers and Republican lawmakers are welcoming a Supreme Court ruling that narrows the range of waters subject to federal regulation, calling it a win for private property rights that reins in overeager regulators. “It’s very difficult to navigate federal processes, very difficult. And it seems particularly silly in a case where you’re getting […]
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Attorney General Kris Mayes says in a new lawsuit that 3M, DuPont and Chemours were negligent in the design, manufacturing, marketing and sale of toxic substances.
The Supreme Court ruling changes how to define the “waters of the United States,” which are regulated by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers under the Clean Water Act.
State and federal officials are celebrating an agreement reached this week by Arizona, California and Nevada to reduce their use of Colorado River water by millions of gallons over the next three years. But it’s a temporary reprieve. Bolstered by a winter with heavy rain and snow throughout a region that has suffered two decades […]
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Arson fires Monday damaged neighboring churches in the border community about 120 miles southeast of Tucson.
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Maricopa County can't collect on its legal fees against unsuccessful candidate for Arizona governor. A separate ruling, however, says Mark Finchem, needs to pay fees in his challenge to losing the race for secretary of state.
🎧 Reporter Karen Robinson-Jacobs discusses the racial makeup of police departments in relation to the communities they serve.
Arizona motorists will have to keep an eye out for photo radar and red light cameras in some cities and towns, as Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed banning them.