TUCSON - The number of illegal immigrants dying while trying to cross Arizona’s deserts doesn’t appear to be dropping despite tighter border security that was expected to deter some migrants from attempting the perilous trek, a border medical examiner says.

Jeff Berkshire will be the defending champion next week when the 82nd Arizona Amateur Championship heads for the private confines of Desert Mountain Golf Club.

Responsible desert gardening doesn’t have to be a grim gravel-scape.

TUCSON — The Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum is about to open its first major new exhibit in a decade.

Another scorching hot day in the desert areas of Arizona. The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning until 8 p.m. with predicted high temperatures ranging from 110 to 116 degrees Friday.

The child's face is haunting. Found in the shadow of the Dragoon Mountains, her corpse is a mass of contradictions: a beautiful girl, left in the desert without so much as a name; brutally murdered, but wrapped in immaculate white.

TUCSON - The bodies of two illegal border crossers have been recovered in desert areas and the status of two other desert deaths are being investigated, authorities said Monday.

TUCSON - The bodies of four suspected illegal immigrants were found in the Arizona desert over the weekend.

November 30, 2004

The Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Society, in cooperation with the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation and several other conservation partners, is appealing to Interior Secretary Gale Norton to help protect bighorn sheep and other wildlife in the Sonoran Desert National Monument in Arizona.

The desert only feels like a hot wasteland this time of year; in reality, there’s food out there, and Apache Junction cookbook author Jean Groen can show you how to find it and what to do with it.

Gilbert High School and Desert Vista High School, an Ahwatukee Foothills school in the Tempe Union High School District, will both represent Arizona in this year's Fiesta Bowl National Band Championship and Fiesta Bowl Parade.

Q: I love Hass avocados. Can we grow them in the low desert, and if so, how do I do it?

For a guy who has missed essentially the last six months on the PGA Tour with chronic back problems, Ben Crane is making a fast recovery.

TUCSON - The bodies of six suspected illegal immigrants have been recovered since Monday in southern Arizona's deserts, a toll officials said was not unusual when temperatures soar above 100 degrees.