Davis-Monthan Air Force Base News

Think about going home for the holidays and one of the things that so often comes to mind is the smell and taste of fresh, baked treats.

Yuma may be the sunniest place on earth, but, with all due respect to that delightful patch of Arizona desert, there's a self-described "sunshine factory" about 250 miles southeast of it that's worth your attention.

Ten Air Force brigadier generals have been nominated to receive their second star, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Thursday.

From time to time, Elias Anderson finds himself getting into debates with his parents.

Ronald Lubowicz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Lubowicz of Haggerty St., was elected Student Government Day representative from Adams Memorial High School with Peter Damiano of 5 Gavin Ave., as his alternate, at annual elections for that purpose this morning at the school.

By Bonnie Henry Published: 11.30.2009 Funny how one story leads to another a ' though not necessarily in chronological order.

Staff Sgt. Jacob Richmond, a public affairs specialist from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, will blog here regularly during his deployment to Joint Base Balad, Iraq.

The Arizona Daily Star is chronicling the struggles and the triumphs of Tucson residents and their families finding their way in spite of job loss, funding cuts and, in some cases, resulting personal crises.

The largest solar neighborhood in the continental U.S. will be on an Air Force base in Arizona's Sonora Desert, where the sun shines 350 days a year.

By Kimberly Matas arizona daily star Published: 11.13.2009 Sebastian "Tony" Maraschiello wasn't one to let an opportunity pass.

Send this Headwaters page to a friend or colleague: Solar installation at Arizona air base one of nation's largest Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona will host one of the nation's largest solar-power installations, with work under way on a project that will eventually produce enough electricity to power 900 homes on the military base.

Albert-George Schram recruited the TSO Chorus and the color guard from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base for the "Patriotic Pops" show.

A group of Arizona national guard soldiers are all accounted for at Fort Hood after a shooter killed 12 people and wounded 31 others.

When you reach Air Force Maj. Paul Brown on his cellphone, you get this message: "I'm either flyin' or sleepin,' so leave a message." On this particular occasion, he had been flying.

Air Force personnel "scattered like cockroaches" when deputies were called to a rowdy house party on Tucson's south side that left one airman dead and another accused of his murder, a military jury heard Tuesday.

We don't want to rain on anyone's solar parade, but news this week of a large green-energy facility being built on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base shouldn't lull anyone into thinking that all is well on the local energy scene.

An Air National Guard program that brings foreign and out-of-state fighter jets to Tucson for combat training will be under a microscope in coming months as consultants review its impact on city neighborhoods.

Col. Joel Westa, a former Barksdale officer who recently was named to command the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., was fired today by 8th Air Force commander Maj.

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is poised to become a power player in the world of green energy.

The Soaring Heights Community at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base will become the largest solar-powered community in the continental U.S., upon completion, according to a press release .