Nogales News

Winter rains have replenished Pena Blanca Lake near Nogales and now the Arizona Game and Fish Department will stock it with rainbow trout Tuesday.

Wet weather like we had Wednesday is one of the reasons Pena Blanca is again a lake.

With water a scarce commodity in southern Arizona, news of Pena Blanca Lake reopening is great news for lake lovers.

Customs and Border Protection officers in Nogales, Arizona stopped a drug smuggling attempt Tuesday when they seized a can of powdered milk, in which 1.5 pounds of crystal meth was hidden.

The owner of one business says crime isn't the biggest problem downtown. Aside from news reports about border violence and gang activity, the biggest issue is the long wait for Mexican shoppers to get into the US.

Buyers turned out on Thursday to bid on a unique Nogales home up for auction. The 5,500 square foot home sits on a sprawling 40-acre property, on a hill high above Nogales.

Authorities say a Mexican man has been indicted on federal currency smuggling charges after being caught trying to sneak nearly $40,000 in cash out of Arizona in an aluminum can.

A Mexican citizen has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for trying to smuggle more than $1 million of cocaine into Arizona.

The roundup of alleged crime ring members we told you about on Thursday also snared Mario de la Fuente Manriquez, a Mexican media mogul who owns cable TV companies , a Nogales, Sonora TV station and newspaper.

The New York Times is reporting that, "contrary to their denials, employees of the Arizona Game and Fish Department intentionally snared the last known jaguar in the Southwest last year," according to a report by the federal government.

The owner of a Sonora media empire and his son are among eight suspects indicted in a Valley money-laundering and fraud case that investigators say involves millions of dollars funneled from unidentified sources in Mexico.

U.S. Border Patrol agents say they have arrested a Mexican man in connection with the 2003 slaying of a woman in the Phoenix suburb of Maricopa.

Minerva Gastelum takes a break from shopping to talk with Marcos Najera in Downtown Magdalena.

Three men were arrested in Nogales, Ariz., early Saturday after they were connected to a shooting that left a man with non-life threatening injuries, police said.

PIMA COUNTY, AZ The Black Peak Fire, located approximately 10 miles south of Arivaca in the Nogales Ranger District, Coronado National Forest.

The University of Arizona's two-year-old branch campus in Nogales, Ariz., is taking root by training teachers.

The headline says "Holiday Inn owners want Tucson to help them add on," and the story reads like something out of yesterday's paper.

Death still gallops along Arizona's southern border. The Border Patrol's Tucson Sector reports that the bodies of 208 border crossers were found in fiscal 2009.

The Census Bureau is bringing its Road Tour to Nogales on Friday. Officials say the 2010 Census Portrait of America Road Tour stop will offer residents of Santa Cruz County a chance to participate in an interactive experience that shows the benefits of this year's count.

NOGALES, AZ A Mexican national wanted for homicide in his native country was turned over to representatives from the Mexican Attorney General's Office at the border crossing in Nogales, Ariz., this morning by officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement .