Pima News

With its new 10-story hotel and casino, plans for an upscale retail outlet center and dreams of a ballpark for spring training, Wild Horse Pass south of Ahwatukee has become the economic engine of the Gila River Indian Community.

Dedication and open-house dates for the Gila Valley Arizona Temple have been announced by the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The Pima County Board of Supervisors will wait until February to decide whether to designate three rural county roads as scenic routes.

"Is the road on Campbell Avenue between River Road and Skyline Drive a designated bike route? I travel this segment every day and I am always slowed down by a bike rider.

Ethel Eyring Taylor, 93, died Dec. 6, after a brief illness. Ethel Eyring, was born Feb.

More than 300,000 American Indians, including about 20,000 in Arizona, would settle their long-standing complaints about U.S. mismanagement of their trust accounts for $1.4 billion, under an agreement announced Tuesday by the Obama administration.

Most American states have many counties - 30, 40, 50 and more. But Arizona has but fifteen.

A new study financed by the company proposing the Rosemont Mine southeast of Tucson predicts the mine will be even a bigger economic boon a ' about $30 billion over 25 years a ' than an earlier study foreseeing $15 billion in economic benefits.

The October opening of the Wild Horse Pass Hotel & Casino has raised the casino bar in the Valley to its highest level yet.

Courtesy This 18th century northwestern New Spain map shows settlements, missions and presidios .

'Storytelling & Song' program resumes The "Storytelling & Song" program that takes place each winter at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa will open this season with a ceremonial blessing on Nov.

The Valley's largest casino hotel is scheduled to open by early April, said Ramon Martinez, Talking Stick Resort public relations director.

The traffic lights near Fourth Avenue and Congress Street, installed as part of the new underpass that eventually will carry modern streetcars, are not timed to work together, causing big traffic delays downtown during the morning rush hour.

PHOENIX a ' A move by the state to delay $370 million in road construction because of the deficit apparently will spare the long-sought widening of Interstate 10 on the city's northwest side.

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Hike or walk in the beautiful fall weather of Sedona at Red Rock State Park in October SEDONA, AZ - - Educational programs, hikes and walks highlight the month of October 2009 at Red Rock State Park.

I opened my 2007 Reason article about religious drug use with the case of Dan and Mary Quaintance, the Pima, Arizona, couple who founded the marijuana-venerating Church of Cognizance .

The two Southeastern Arizona founders of a church that deifies marijuana are both serving time in federal prison for illegal drug possession.

The Salsa Trail is a collection of a dozen Mexican restaurants, a family owned tortilla factory, and a chili farmer who have all joined together to make up the Salsa Trail .

When Bunty Ahamed leaves his suburban Phoenix home each morning, he heads to work in a different land with a culture as old as the shifting sands.