While smoking bud will likely never go out of style, the marijuana industry is quickly moving in the direction of extracts.
By Tucson Weekly Staff
Apr 19, 2018
For a tense 70 seconds, Thornydale Elementary was a goner.
By Danyelle Khmara
Apr 19, 2018
The results of our Cannabis Bowl 2018.
By Tucson Weekly Staff
Apr 19, 2018
It's pretty clear that weed is marching toward mainstream acceptance, no matter what U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says about it.
By Jim Nintzel
Apr 19, 2018
The Red for Ed movement, which began in early March, is calling for a raise for educators and additional funding for schools.
By Danyelle Khmara
Apr 19, 2018
A budding male-chauvinist bigwig insisted that doling out misogynistic insults to a female University of Arizona employee was his "right" as a paying student.
By Anna Mirocha
Apr 19, 2018
In a remarkably audacious convenience-store shoplifting incident, a man just kept topping himself in rude and unlawful behavior.
By Anna Mirocha
Apr 19, 2018
We’d drive by The Bambi in the family car, and I thought it a bar where moms disrobed.
By Brian Smith
Apr 19, 2018
I have had the privilege of working in Tucson’s indigent-community mental-health system for 32 years.
By Mindy Bernstein
Apr 19, 2018
The Southern Arizona Women's Foundation is raising awareness and money for issues affecting women and girls at its 25th annual luncheon, on April 18
By Danyelle Khmara
Apr 12, 2018
The 25th annual Science of Consciousness Conference featured some of the brightest and most far-out minds on our planet discussing topics such as the evolution of language, the origin of life, psychedelics, metaphysics, artificial intelligence and much more.
By Emily Dieckman and Jeff Gardner
Apr 12, 2018
Tucson has an astonishing array of dynamic events for you to attend, so quit complaining there's nothing to do and get out there and have some fun!
By Jim Nintzel
Apr 12, 2018
Backpage.com was seized on April 6 by federal law enforcement. The website was shut down, and those who ran it were arrested.
By Danyelle Khmara
Apr 12, 2018
During a confrontation with her apartment-complex manager, a paranoid tenant doled out quite a "tongue-lashing".
By Anna Mirocha
Apr 12, 2018
A Green Valley man's across-the-street neighbor had a creepy habit of photographing him and his wife-always with their elderly dog
By Anna Mirocha
Apr 12, 2018
Downtown Tucson scored a big win last week when Gov. Doug Ducey signed legislation extending the life of the Rio Nuevo district for an extra decade.
By Jim Nintzel
Apr 12, 2018
I used to think that the only two people who knew everything were God and an eighth-grader. Now the list has grown by one.
By Tom Danehy
Apr 12, 2018
The Arizona Department of Health Services has told some dispensaries to change the way they report concentrates in a way that would vastly impact the amount of medical marijuana patients can receive every two weeks.
By Nick Meyers
Apr 12, 2018
A story about a mixed martial arts fighter who made some serious mistakes in his life.
By Brian Smith
Apr 5, 2018
This week we introduce a new political cartoon, plus a Tucson Salvage cover feature by Brian Smith on a local MMA fighter's road to redemption.
By Jim Nintzel
Apr 5, 2018
About 45 people recently made their case for keeping the school open: educators, students, graduates, neighbors and even entire families.
By Danyelle Khmara
Apr 5, 2018
After months of inquiries by The Chronicle of Social Change, it is unclear if Arizona is making good on the promise of the law's foster care provision.
By Christie Renick | Chronicle of Social Change
Apr 5, 2018
A zealous, hyper-seeming man was found wandering the University of Arizona stadium on a "mission" nobody could figure out.
By Anna Mirocha
Apr 5, 2018
A large man carrying around some sinister stuff, like weapons and drugs, was arrested for stealing a variety of much more frivolous items.
By Anna Mirocha
Apr 5, 2018
In a tragic turn of affairs, hundreds of bits of legislation came to a sad end last week when the deadline passed for bills to be heard in committee.
By Jim Nintzel
Apr 5, 2018
The eventual passage of two bills affecting Arizona's medical marijuana industry could spell out some good news and some bad news for the business.
By Nick Meyers
Apr 5, 2018
Joining over a million students and allies, in over 800 marches across the nation and the world, Tucsonans marched to demand legislation to reduce gun violence in the student-led March for Our Lives.
By Danyelle Khmara
Mar 29, 2018
With last month's school shooting triggering protests calling for action to prevent gun violence across the country, Gov. Doug Ducey unveiled his Safe Arizona Schools Plan
By Jeff Gardner
Mar 29, 2018
Jim Nintzel's Q&A with Tom O'Halleran on the latest in Washington.
By Jim Nintzel
Mar 29, 2018
The drive to Winkelman isn’t long or difficult—it’s about 60 miles up the 77 from downtown Tucson, but toward the end, it does involve a jaunt down a dusty, bumpy dirt road that has you feeling like you took a wrong turn somewhere.
By Emily Dieckman
Mar 29, 2018
The late Thin White Duke might as well have been talking about the kids who led rallies across our nation to say: “Enough.”
By Jim Nintzel
Mar 29, 2018
Law enforcement found a suspiciously odd combination of mushrooms and, um, "cake" kept in the dorm room of two University of Arizona undergrads.
By Anna Mirocha
Mar 29, 2018
A hospital took in a man whose behavior was at first merely (very) strange and then turned frighteningly hostile.
By Anna Mirocha
Mar 29, 2018
Jim Nintzel on the education sales tax and Pima County's roadblock to fixing our deteriorating roads.
By Jim Nintzel
Mar 29, 2018
Ahh spring. Gotta get rid of those thoughts that keep bouncing around in one's head lest they metastasize and you turn into Bobby Fischer or something.
By Tom Danehy
Mar 29, 2018
In the scramble for Congress to pull together a spending bill for the 2018 fiscal year, medical marijuana emerged as a precarious winner in the final passing of the bill on March 23.
By Nick Meyers
Mar 29, 2018
Our staff descends upon Austin for South by Southwest festival.
By Jim Nintzel
Mar 22, 2018
Pueblo Magnet High School students filled the bleachers on Wednesday, March 14 for a moment of silence and to hear their peers give compelling speeches about ending gun violence.
By Danyelle Khmara
Mar 22, 2018
Riding horseback along the 18-foot border wall in Southern Arizona's Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke talked border security with Tucson Sector Border Chief Patrol Agent Rodolfo Karisch.
By Danyelle Khmara
Mar 22, 2018
During a Walmart shoplifting trip, a man somehow fit numerous rather dangerous items in his pants and ran a good distance with them.
By Anna Mirocha
Mar 22, 2018
An obviously intoxicated individual wandering the UA campus was treated very leniently by two cops.
By Anna Mirocha
Mar 22, 2018
After a recent visit to the legislature in Phoenix, I came home to Tucson deeply concerned about the state of affairs in Arizona and education in particular.
By Stephanie Hamilton
Mar 22, 2018
I first spotted Ray stepping off a city bus carrying a half-finished canvas. I actually followed him to a kidney disease center near downtown to ask to see it.
By Brian Smith
Mar 22, 2018
Arizona courts have something to say about medical marijuana this week, and it's all good.
By Nick Meyers
Mar 22, 2018
In its fourth year, The Foilies recognizes the worst responses to records requests, outrageous efforts to stymie transparency and the most absurd redactions.
By Electronic Frontier Foundation
Mar 15, 2018
This year, the MS Walk has two routes through the Reid Park Zoo. Participation is free, but donations that go to MS research are encouraged and rewarded.
By Danyelle Khmara
Mar 15, 2018
This week's cover story is an amusing-but-enraging piece that shines a light on how governments across the country are going to great lengths to thwart the people's right to know.
By Jim Nintzel
Mar 15, 2018
The deadline Trump created when he ended DACA last September came and went with little acknowledgement from Congress. In D.C. and around the country, recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and their allies marched, protested, chanted and were arrested.
By Danyelle Khmara
Mar 15, 2018
The group of teens in a science class room at Tucson High are not there to talk biology. They're talking about how fear of being shot hinders their studies.
By Danyelle Khmara
Mar 15, 2018
A day-drinking southwest-side man learned an expensive lesson but at least avoided jail after breaking into his own (former) apartment.
By Anna Mirocha
Mar 15, 2018
Unfortunately, instead of the attention being focused on whether Virginia's stifling defense can lead the Cavaliers to a title or if another dark horse can make it to the Final Four, all the talk these days is on whether college athletes should be paid.
By Tom Danehy
Mar 15, 2018
Arizona’s anti-marijuana forces have been railing against one of the biggest examples of the plant’s medical efficacy: decreasing opioid addiction.
By Nick Meyers
Mar 15, 2018
