Terri Franco's camp is hidden in the leaves of the sprawling tamarisk. The tree, thriving at the bottom of a cavernous wash, is her home.
By Danyelle Khmara
Jun 22, 2017
A Kentucky Fried Chicken Zinger sandwich will boldly go where no fast-food meal has gone before, on a World View Enterprises mission to the edge of Earth's atmosphere.
By Eddie Celaya
Jun 22, 2017
Jim Nintzel becomes executive editor at the Weekly and praises the award-winning editorial staff.
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 22, 2017
Border Patrol agents bust migrants seeking medical aid at No More Deaths desert camp
By Danyelle Khmara
Jun 22, 2017
A show-me state of intoxication
By Anna Mirocha
Jun 22, 2017
Martha McSally faces opposition for her seat and independent Tucson City Council candidate Gary Watson faces candidacy challenge in court
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 22, 2017
When hipsters do something that's slightly outside the law yet an innovation over the old guard, they get a Series-C round of funding, Instagram influencers, and fawning media coverage. When Mexicans do it? We get code enforcement.
By Gustavo Arellano
Jun 22, 2017
We're coming up on eight months since that awful November evening and the sting isn't going away.
By Tom Danehy
Jun 22, 2017
Yes, Jeff Sessions does want to take your medical marijuana away from you.
By Nick Meyers
Jun 22, 2017
The Tucson community honors local legend Emil Franzi, who died June 7th.
Jun 15, 2017
Executive editor Jim Nintzel bids a fond adieu to local radio star Emil Franzi, honors his father-in-law, and showcases the rest of the Weekly's offerings.
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 15, 2017
The Pima County Board of Supervisors and the Tucson City Council approved a joint resolution standing in opposition to the proposed border wall.
By Logan Burtch-Buus
Jun 15, 2017
The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted to extend and amend the contract with Banner Health and the Arizona Board of Regents to operate the former Kino Community Hospital June 6 in a 4-1 vote.
By Eddie Celaya
Jun 15, 2017
Honoring a father-in-law
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 15, 2017
Rural Mexicans treat their hens as they treat their women: as purveyors of breasts, eggs and little else.
By Gustavo Arellano
Jun 15, 2017
At the Chatterbox on a lonely Monday night in June in Tucson.
By Brian Smith
Jun 15, 2017
Marijuana benefits abound as new policy looms
By Nick Meyers
Jun 15, 2017
Flashing failure
By Anna Mirocha
Jun 15, 2017
Wrong way walker
By Anna Mirocha
Jun 15, 2017
A profile of paper artist Nick Georgiou
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 8, 2017
Activists walk the punishing Migrant Trail
By Danyelle Khmara
Jun 8, 2017
Arizona's economy continues to rise in recovery of the Great Recession, but as always with economic forecasts, not everything is optimistic.
By Nick Meyers
Jun 8, 2017
Tom Wonders About Traffic, climate change and a weird embrace of stupidity from sitcoms to politics
By Tom Danehy
Jun 8, 2017
A secret recording shows U.S. Rep. McSally has some concerns about reelection
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 8, 2017
A young University of Arizona student infatuated with his professor was not afraid to tell her about it despite her request that he stop.
By Anna Mirocha
Jun 8, 2017
Since gabachos hate truth nowadays, the prospect of amnesty long ago went the way of the Paris climate accords.
By Gustavo Arellano
Jun 8, 2017
The mind-bending depth and dimensions of Nick Georgiou's sculptures
By Carl Hanni
Jun 8, 2017
There's something just a bit different about The Prime Leaf, a new dispensary recently opened at at 4220 E. Speedway Blvd.
By Nick Meyers
Jun 8, 2017
Wrapping up the Arizona Legislature session and what it means for Arizona residents
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 1, 2017
The Reid Park Zoo is putting its heaviest foot forward this Friday evening in the form of African elephants and southern white rhinos for another installment of its weekly Summer Safari Nights program.
By Logan Burtch-Buus
Jun 1, 2017
The last gathering of the members of La Coalicion de Derechos Humanos in honor of migrants who have died crossing the border.
By Danyelle Khmara
Jun 1, 2017
The Emerge! Center Against Domestic Violence has a new message: Men can have a leading role in ending domestic abuse.
By Danyelle Khmara
Jun 1, 2017
A bus driver was just trying to help some sorority girls have some good, clean fun when a young man invaded her vehicle and gave her a dirty show
By Anna Mirocha
Jun 1, 2017
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged former Arizona Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce, his wife, prominent lobbyist Jim Norton and utility owner George Johnson with conspiracy, bribery, mail fraud and wire fraud.
By Evan Wyloge | Arizona Center for Investigate Reporting
Jun 1, 2017
When was the last time a legislative round-up could include the phrase "schools and the poor were kinda, sorta winners" to describe a Legislative session?
By Blake Morlock
Jun 1, 2017
It seems the fears of recreational marijuana supporters who voted against Prop 205 have some merit, based on state's hoarding of cash.
By Nick Meyers
Jun 1, 2017
Grey pigeons fly low over the razor wire
Jun 1, 2017
As the long Memorial Day weekend springboards us deep into summer, find some celluloid relief from the heat in our local cineplexes.
By Jim Nintzel
May 25, 2017
Not Quite Criminally Creepy
By Anna Mirocha
May 25, 2017
Despite many technological innovations and the inclusion of robotic pickers for some crops, healthy field row edibles usually don't end up on a dinner plate without some stoop labor wielding lettuce knives.
By Lee Allen
May 25, 2017
A local driver and a bicyclist were chased around midtown at about 2 a.m. by someone throwing eggs out a car window
By Anna Mirocha
May 25, 2017
With deadline approaching, Republicans are having a tough time fielding candidates for the three Tucson City Council seats up for grabs this year.
By Jim Nintzel
May 25, 2017
I don't endorse this kind of hit-and-run behavior, but I'm telling that little anecdote so that the dumbasses who leave their cars in the middle of the street aren't too shocked when they find their '83 Buick Skylark in pieces...
By Gustavo Arellano
May 25, 2017
Gov. Doug Ducey killed a bill that would have opened a new industry for Arizona farmers Monday, May 22.
By Nick Meyers
May 25, 2017
I remember thinking about Putney Swope on Election Night. I wondered how many people had cast their ballots for Donald Trump, thinking that it was a one-off, screw-you vote.
By Tom Danehy
May 25, 2017
Cameras, Cancer, and Bears, oh my
By Jim Nintzel
May 18, 2017
Are you outraged at Governor Ducey's "education budget"? You should be
By David Safier
May 18, 2017
When he was just 18 months old, Jude was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He's since received two bone marrow transplants, underwent three immunotherapy clinical trials and has experienced three relapses, although he's now cancer-free.
By Logan Burtch-Buus
May 18, 2017
A man in a stolen lab coat was caught spray-painting odd symbols and phrases throughout an underground tunnel, insisting he was doing it for a noble purpose
By Anna Mirocha
May 18, 2017
There's no excuse for threatening to shoot U.S. Rep. Martha McSally
By Jim Nintzel
May 18, 2017
Tucson CSA brings more than fresh local produce to Tucson by supplying support and community to its farmers and members
By Elena Gonzalez
May 18, 2017
You may have heard that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week called upon his army of federal prosecutors to pursue the "highest" charges possible against alleged drug offenders.
By Nick Meyers
May 18, 2017
The easy answer is to presume that the city is muy racist, but it's also home to the largest Bosnian Serb population in the world outside of the Balkans-and most are Muslim.
By Gustavo Arellano
May 18, 2017
Surprise! Jim Nintzel is leading the Weekly for a little while.
By Jim Nintzel
May 11, 2017
We'll have to save the world
May 11, 2017
Local Republicans join the Keep Tucson Shitty movement
By Jim Nintzel
May 11, 2017
A random male deviously snatched a ball from a pair of University of Arizona students playing catch and then—when the students realized he meant to steal their ball—offered them a handful of Jolly Ranchers candy as "payment" for it.
By Anna Mirocha
May 11, 2017
A University of Arizona student studying abroad was found fast asleep and nearly nude in his dorm's lobby.
By Anna Mirocha
May 11, 2017
Dear Gabacha: There's ambition, and then there's selfishness, and you, ingrata, are the definition of the latter.
By Gustavo Arellano
May 11, 2017
Unfortunately, there are a whole lot of people who see health care as an us-against-them thing or as a limited commodity that can only be afforded by a fortunate few, like a fancy car or tickets to an Adele concert.
By Tom Danehy
May 11, 2017
Although the black market still operates like a real market with supply, demand and equilibrium, there are certain benefits of buying something in a legal market.
By Nick Meyers
May 11, 2017
