Douglas News

HAI is saddened at the passing of Mr. Richard Ralph Snure, who died on June 11, 2009 when he hit a power line northwest of Phoenix, Arizona, while gathering cattle.

Alfredo Altamirano was a young boy growing up in Douglas, Arizona, when his brother was injured and knocked unconscious.

Welcome to the second annual GSS Desert Week ! In time-honoured tradition, wea ll mostly be posting about deserts.

DOUGLAS, AZ a ' Firefighters made significant progress Monday in battling a wildfire in southeastern Arizona.

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Three of Arizona's six border crossings are reporting normal or lighter traffic and no problems for Americans returning from Mexico on the first day of stricter identification requirements.

Courtesy photo Buried in the Calvary Cemetery in Douglas, Ariz., is Fred J. Haas , though his birth name is Johann Friedrick Haas.

Finally, we arrive in Douglas looking forward to down time in "beautiful, historic" Gadsden hotel.

G.T. Bohmfalk remembers the days when shoppers flooded in from Mexico to buy from his Western wear and saddle shop and from other merchants along G Avenue in this border community.

Arizona taxpayers probably have paid at least $300,000 to educate nonresident students from Mexico attending a public charter school in Douglas, the state's schools chief said Thursday.

Arizona's schools superintendent and attorney general want legislators to close a loophole through which state money going to a Douglas public charter school may be paying for schooling nonresident students from Mexico.

Views of homes in Jerome, AZ dotting the slope of Cleopatra Mountain taken from rooftop of the newly constructed Robinson Victorian Home.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Douglas, Ariz., discovered $50,000 worth of marijuana hidden inside a speaker box Monday, authorities said.

The nation's largest Border Patrol station is 53,000 square feet across 29 acres.

U.S. Border Patrol agents recovered the bodies of two illegal immigrants and rescued several others over the first 100-degree plus weekend of the year.

For the past 15-plus years, Robin Brekhus has been putting on one of the most popular rallies in the Southwest here.

By Brian J. Pedersen Tucson, Arizona Published: 05.10.2009 With a little work, Douglas' decaying downtown can be transformed into a vibrant streetscape where tourists and townsfolk can shop, mingle and enjoy the border community's rich history.

On May 2nd, DPS officers stopped a Chevy truck pulling a flatbed trailer on I-10, about 15 miles east of Benson for a suspended license plate and discovered 1,052 pounds of marijuana in a false compartment.

This load of marijuna was found Saturday after a stop of a pickup truck near Benson, according to the state Department of Public Safety.

A Douglas man was arrested over the weekend after Arizona Department of Public Safety officers said they found more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana in his pickup truck.