Plans to build an oil refinery in Maricopa County were scrapped Thursday amid questions about its impact on the fast-growing region’s environment.

Nobody knows heat like the Marines in this scorching corner of Arizona.

The state Department of Environmental Quality gave preliminary approval Monday for what would be the state’s first gasoline refinery.

YUMA  - Sandra Sills was in her living room, arranging fire extinguishers for a business she runs out of her home, when the wind chimes rang and pictures and decorations fluttered on the walls.

YUMA - Six people, including four children, were killed at a home in this western Arizona community, police said Saturday.

General Motors is looking at Yuma as the possible new location for its new hot-weather proving ground, according to published reports.

The next time you eat a crisp lettuce leaf, think of Yuma. This town known for its sand dunes and territorial prison produces 3.6 billion heads of lettuce between November and March.

YUMA - Police continued to search for a suspect and a motive Sunday in the deaths of six people found in a home in this southwestern Arizona city.

SAN LUIS — Arizona-Mexico border agents on Monday announced multiple seizures of drugs worth nearly $5.5 million combined.

YUMA - Arizona Game and Fish Department authorities have killed a mountain lion in the Tank Mountains northeast of Yuma, the second big cat to be removed in the area in less than a year for killing desert bighorn sheep.

YUMA - A man in his 60s fell 15 feet into an abandoned mine shaft in southwestern Arizona and survived with only minor injuries.

Plans to build an oil refinery in Maricopa County were scrapped Thursday amid questions about its impact on the fast-growing region’s environment.

PHOENIX - Rapper Lil Wayne was arrested on three felony drug charges early Wednesday after federal agents said they found illegal drugs including cocaine on his charter bus at a checkpoint in southwestern Arizona.

PHOENIX - Rapper Lil Wayne was arrested on three felony drug charges early Wednesday after federal agents said they found illegal drugs including cocaine on his charter bus at a checkpoint in southwestern Arizona.

President Bush will reinforce his call to secure the border Thursday during a 4.5-hour visit to Yuma. The president is scheduled to tour a portion of the international fence in the southwest corner of the state, said Jacob Grodin, a member of the White House advance team.

President Bush will reinforce his call to secure the border Thursday during a 4 1/2-hour visit to Yuma. The president is scheduled to tour a portion of the international fence in the southwest corner of the state, said Jacob Grodin, a member of the White House advance team.

YUMA - Police are receiving calls from tipsters and others trying to help solve the killings of six people, including four children, but no new leads had emerged by Monday, authorities said.

Yuma’s farmers sent a delegation to Washington last week, pleading with Congress to quickly find a way to make it easier for Mexican workers with daily entry visas to reach U.S. fields.

Yuma’s farmers sent a delegation to Washington last week, pleading with Congress to quickly find a way to make it easier for Mexican workers with daily entry visas to reach U.S. fields.

Here’s something for your next round of cocktail party banter: Yuma produces 93 percent of the nation’s winter lettuce.

Faced with an immediate budget crisis, the Yuma Union High School District has informed the Arizona Interscholastic Association that its 5A schools will cease all sports travel for the rest of the 2009-2010 school year and beyond except for state tournaments.

President Bush traveled to ground zero of the immigration issue Thursday, inspecting a portion of the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. He toured the region in a U.S. Border Patrol dune buggy and later made the case for his border and immigration policies.