Patagonia News

Randy Metcalf/The Explorer , Patagonia locals Serena Buss, right, and Kate Tirion sit outside Gathering Grounds on McKeown Avenue in Patagonia.

Where, other than on a drive to Patagonia, can you find a large lake, ghost towns and rolling hills covered with green grass and sprinkled with ocotillos and windmills, all within a couple of hours of Tucson? ...

Reading microfilm or browsing the yellowed pages of the Star, which has served Southern Arizona since 1877, is a romp through Southern Arizona's history.

Officially retired from joint business ownership, Paul and his Danish born wife Bodil, live a quiet, yet busy life.

' Miles spin out under fat, knobby tires as I pedal a mountain bike up the here pebbly, there bumpy, but mostly smooth-dirt surface of the Harshaw Creek Road.

Please attend these important meetings! Help defend the Sky Islands against the Rosemont Copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains! This coming Monday is the first Forest Service HEARING on the Rosemont mine ...

A little late - posting to my blog was blocked due to a suspected TOS violation.

The 17th Annual Southwest Wings Birding & Nature Festival takes flight on Wednesday.

Various radiations can harm her, she says Arivaca is in a somewhat remote part of Arizona, 11 miles north of the Mexican border, 17 miles west of Tumac'cori and surrounded by rocky mountains and hills and ...

A $2.07 million slice of a Department of Homeland Security grant will help equip and pay law officers and keep their vehicles on the roads in Santa Cruz County for the next two years.

Officials said more than 400 dead penguins, most of them young, have been washing up on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches.

I had two contradictory thoughts as I read this book: 'This guy can really write,' and, 'I really don't enjoy this book.' The two took turns vying for supremacy, and, at the end, I'm not sure which 'won.' ...

Officials said more than 400 dead penguins, most of them young, have been washing up on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches.

The world's top Nazi-hunter said Thursday he's made progress in finding 94-year-old "Doctor Death," a former concentration camp physician accused of torturing Jewish prisoners as they died and who may have been ...

Though the rise in humidity may have been of some help in slowing wildfires in the surrounding areas of southeastern Arizona, there wasn't enough rainfall to make a significant difference.

A new paper says about two-thirds of penguin species are in trouble. The paper, published in the July edition of the journal Bioscience, says it's thanks to global warming, oil pollution, depleted fisheries, ...

If you're going to Mexico to buy your gasoline, be sure to get a meal while you're there.

Borstar agent Abel Flores carries confiscated marijuana to a Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine helicopter.

Antigone Books, 411 N. Fourth Ave. Meet the author of "Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West." 7 p.m. June 6. Free.

It's a sort of cross between a down-on-the-farm weekend and an Audubon outing. Spirit Tree Inn, about three miles east of Patagonia in Arizona's far southeast corner, offers a low-key experience that's ideal ...