Although the extreme heat across the Sonoran Desert of northern Mexico and the southwestern part of the United States is about to return for another summer, the weeks leading up to summer in the ...

Way down at the bottom of the country, very near the Arizona border with Mexico, lies Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. The divide in the rugged Ajo Range delineates the eastern boundary of the ...

Parts of Tucson are looking pretty in pink, as local ironwood trees dress up for what botanists are calling one of the best blooms in years. “It has been since before COVID that we have had such a ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Southern Arizona’s treasured spring wildflower bloom is pretty much a no-show this year. The relative lack of fall and winter showers needed to produce a bounty of colors means ...

Local artist and designer Jenny Wantland is a Tucsonan through and through. She starts every morning the same way: waking up around 5 a.m. as the sun begins to rise and peeks through a window in her ...

Cactuses sure give Arizonans a lot to talk about. From towering Saguaros that are not what they look like, to a cactus looking like a couple kissing, to stunning flowers that bloom en mass for only ...

The third indigenous tree of the Sonoran Desert and the last to show its spectacular springtime bloom is the desert ironwood tree, Olneya tesota. The multi-hues of purple and lavender flowers make for ...