HWP program expanded from two days a week to three, accommodating more participants across the program.
By Danyelle Khmara
Jul 20, 2017
The latest health care legislation has fallen into a coma, the debut of our new cinema column, and following the escapades of local band XIXA on their world tour.
By Jim Nintzel
Jul 20, 2017
Trying to survive off what the desert provides in the way of edibles can be a feast or famine situation, so it's important to take advantage of seasonal good times.
By Lee Allen
Jul 20, 2017
The Pima County Board of Supervisors put state environmental regulators and Hudbay Minerals on notice.
By Hank Stephenson
Jul 20, 2017
Death has been busy lately. I'd like him to take a holiday, but it's unlikely.
By Tom Danehy
Jul 20, 2017
In 1990, some of my Mexican friends told me it cost $500 to come from Mexico with a coyote. Recently, a friend from Tamazunchale told me it now costs $2,500. How much of this money, paid to the coyotes, go to Border Patrol Employees?
By Gustavo Arellano
Jul 20, 2017
Arizona's pot circle is getting smaller and smaller, but with bigger blunts all around.
By Nick Meyers
Jul 20, 2017
A minor poop dispute became a full-blown feces feud
By Anna Mirocha
Jul 20, 2017
A night prowler ripped up a huge mass of fresh blooms
By Anna Mirocha
Jul 20, 2017
Sanders talks about why he was protesting at the Trump rally last year, what happened to him afterwards, and what a Trump presidency today means
By Bryan Sanders
Jul 13, 2017
Bryan Sanders revisits his experience at Trump rally last year, plus some things for you to do this weekend. Also don't forget to vote for Best of Tucson 2017!
By Jim Nintzel
Jul 13, 2017
Pima County Public Library engages kids and teens at their Comic-Con style event, MegaMania!!
By Kyle Mittan
Jul 13, 2017
Ten years ago, Gina Murphy-Darling had an epiphany—a brilliant idea which spawned Mrs. Green's World. It is now celebrating a decade of making a positive impact on where and how we live.
By Lee Allen
Jul 13, 2017
A faction of the YWCA's Latina Leadership Initiative, Las Promotoras decided to continue the vigil monthly after Derechos Humanos announced in May it could no longer make the weekly commitment and asked the community to step in.
By Danyelle Khmara
Jul 13, 2017
Stopping school voucher program, campaign for vacant City Council seat, and radio woes for John C. Scott
By Jim Nintzel
Jul 13, 2017
That's not to deny Chicanos that the culture of fixing up boats and bombs, and driving them low and slow, is now dominated by them—if anything, we appropriated gabacho culture, for once!
By Gustavo Arellano
Jul 13, 2017
Nevada's green dreams may be short-lived as the states dispensaries are running out of pot, and they don't have a backup plan.
By Nick Meyers
Jul 13, 2017
A love that cannot be stopped
By Anna Mirocha
Jul 13, 2017
Looking back 100 years.
By Jim Nintzel
Jul 6, 2017
Fight the Bite, Day and Night helps the Pima County Health Department in their effort to combat disease-carriers.
By Lee Allen
Jul 6, 2017
A deputy found a homeless man (who apparently liked the color red) naked in a car on the side of a major road—and possibly saved his life by commanding him to get medical attention for a leg infection, which he claimed was the reason he wasn't wearing pants.
By Anna Mirocha
Jul 6, 2017
The United States Senate is primed to vote on the newest version of their secretive health care bill, the Better Care Rehabilitation Act (better known as Trumpcare) sometime after the Fourth of July recess.
By Eddie Celaya
Jul 6, 2017
Dear Pocho: Mexico just legalized medicinal marijuana nationwide, which will come as news to the abuelitas that have used marijuana-infused alcohol to treat sore joints and muscles for centuries.
By Gustavo Arellano
Jul 6, 2017
Is there anything that could have gotten Tom to vote for Donald Trump?
Jul 6, 2017
A horrific tale of how a mining giant shipped off hundreds of workers to avoid labor unrest.
By Tom Danehy
Jul 6, 2017
With dispensaries bringing in as much green as they ship out, it may come as a surprise that banks aren't ready to cash in on the booming industry.
By Nick Meyers
Jul 6, 2017
Photographer Jack Dykinga studies a massive saguaro boasting downward circling arms, mentally envisioning the image he might capture. He ignores a cat’s claw thorn puncture that produces trickling blood on his leg.
By Cynthia Lancaster
Jun 29, 2017
On Flag Day, city officials cut the ribbon on a new housing development for chronically homeless veterans, which includes supportive services to help veterans lead healthy and independent lives.
By Danyelle Khmara
Jun 29, 2017
The road to Ironwood Forest National Monument from Interstate 10 at Red Rock exit winds first through a subdivision, then past a cattle feedlot and fallow cotton fields edged by rough-hewn wooden posts strung with barbed wire.
By Cynthia Lancaster
Jun 29, 2017
In this episode of the Tucson Weekly, a great profile of award-winning photographer Jack Dykinga.
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 29, 2017
An excerpt from Jim Nintzel's recent Q&A with Rep. Tom O'Halleran
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 29, 2017
The abhorrent Republican health care plan, plus firefighter Gary Watson's campaign lives to see another day.
By Jim Nintzel
Jun 29, 2017
Dear Gabacho: You heard about how Donald Trump wants to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and equip it with solar panels? Your idea is stupider.
By Gustavo Arellano
Jun 29, 2017
You get that Golden's tired of operating a thrift/antiques store. He's tired of folks, and would rather be a survivalist on 10,000 acres, away from the numbers, that place where no one expects anything.
By Brian Smith
Jun 29, 2017
In case you missed it, possessing marijuana on college campuses has been legal for almost two months for medical cardholders. But that may soon change...
By Nick Meyers
Jun 29, 2017
The bicycle thief
By Anna Mirocha
Jun 29, 2017
Envelope of cash looking for its rightful owner
By Anna Mirocha
Jun 29, 2017
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
Local homeless-advocate Michele Ream walks the walk. She's let homeless people crash at her place. She uses social media to drum up support when she sees someone being mistreated.
By Danyelle Khmara
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
