The Bureau of Land Management has finalized a plan to develop a new recreation area near Apache Junction. The area, which covers nearly 1,100 acres, will be temporarily closed to the public when construction begins.

The Tucson City Council has approved a plan laid out by municipal authorities to secure drinking water for residents in the coming years.

Arizona is one of a handful of states that a new report says is most at risk of carbon loss due to wildfires.

Southern Arizona is known for its scenic landscapes, diverse ecosystems and dark night skies. But conservationists say that those skies could be blotted out by a system of stadium lights on the border.

Tribes from Arizona and beyond — all of whom are indelibly connected to these iconic symbols of the West — are helping sustainably manage the state’s oldest and largest free-ranging buffalo herd on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
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An archaeological investigation of a 1,200-year-old site yielded the discovery of a 14th century adobe building along Eighth Street in Tempe. The finding caused the city to delay its bike and pedestrian project.

The Biden administration is waiving more than two dozen environmental protection laws to build a steel bollard wall and roads along almost 20 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. Arizona lawmakers and advocates are calling on him to reverse course.

According to the Salt River Fire Department, the fire is no longer burning, but green waste, such as lumber, grass and plants, continues to smolder.

Scientists were unsure for decades whether to believe data suggesting that shallow faults near Seattle had ruptured together or in close succession. Now, the University of Arizona-led research of tree rings has confirmed one or more major earthquakes occurred in the region 11 centuries ago this winter.