TUCSON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and other federal officials will be in southern Arizona on Friday to inspect security operations along the U.S.-Mexico border.

SIERRA VISTA — After one of their own was killed while riding the range, many ranchers in southeastern Arizona say they will be more cautious.

SONOITA - Wind is driving a 1,000-acre wildfire in southern Arizona, and a much smaller wildfire nearby is expected to be easily suppressed.

The Arizona Golf Association announced Wednesday that it has changed its venue and dates for its 81st Arizona Amateur Championship, accepting an offer from Southern Dunes Golf Club in Maricopa to replace Desert Forest in Carefree.

NOGALES, Ariz. — A shootout between border patrol agents and bandits in the rugged canyons near Mexico's border left one officer dead and a suspect injured, a union official said Wednesday, the latest outburst of violence along the busiest smuggling corridor into the U.S.

Before students living in Lukeville on the Arizona border with Mexico can board a bus for school in Ajo, they must prove their Arizona residency.

NOGALES - Lighter winds and better weather conditions helped fire crews battling a wildfire in southern Arizona.

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 - A southern Arizona sheriff's department has created a border crime unit in response to escalating smuggling-related violence in what authorities are calling "a war zone," officials said Monday.

TUCSON - A pickup packed with nearly two dozen suspected illegal immigrants and smugglers was ambushed by gunmen early Friday, killing two and leaving at least one other person wounded, authorities said.

TUCSON - Gunmen stopped a pickup truck full of illegal immigrants, shot several and took the rest captive Thursday in an attack that left at least three men dead.

TUCSON - Southern California coach Pete Carroll is a defensive coordinator at heart. So Carroll said he wasn’t the least bit concerned when his third-ranked Trojans took a 3-0 lead into the locker room at halftime Saturday night against Arizona.

TUCSON - Southern California coach Pete Carroll is a defensive coordinator at heart. So Carroll said he wasn’t the least bit concerned when his third-ranked Trojans took a 3-0 lead into the locker room at halftime Saturday night against Arizona.

Two Tempe Fire Department personnel are battling wildland fires in New Mexico and southern Arizona.

TUCSON - Arizona has sent an additional $350,000 in emergency funding to Pima and Pinal counties to help combat a measles outbreak.

LOS ANGELES - Sedrick Ellis and his Southern California teammates want to put one of the most surprising upsets in college football history behind them.

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.

You don’t have to go to California to visit historic Spanish missions and presidios. Southeastern Arizona has a few missions of its own, including San Jose de Tumacácori.