Calling all animal lovers, three local agencies are teaming up to host a “mega adoption event” this week.

Welcome to the ninth week of the high school football season, with the state playoffs in the distance. 

College football’s most famous walk-on, Rudy Reuttiger, was on hand this week to celebrate the continued success of Tucson’s own bowl game.

The work of Pulitzer Prize winning photographer David Hume Kennerly is coming to Tucson after The University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography acquired the archive of his work.

The Oro Valley Town Council debated late into the night last Wednesday, Oct. 2, and came away with a 6-1 vote to keep the town-owned community center and two 18-hole golf courses. 

On March 18, 2017, Mei Hu embarked on a trip from which she would never return. The 35-year-old Chinese native, in Tucson on a business trip, checked into the DoubleTree hotel across from Reid Park around 8:30 p.m. At 9 p.m., she video-chatted with her husband and two children back in China.…

Oro Valley’s mayor and council decided last week to retain all of its golf courses, and moved to lease the Pusch Ridge facilities to HSL Properties, the owners of El Conquistador Tucson, A Hilton Resort.

The town of Marana is developing a new community outdoor space in the form of the Honea Heights Neighborhood Park, scheduled to break ground this week.

After traveling to more than 120 countries on seven continents and visiting all 50 states, Clark Norton has narrowed the focus of his award-winning travel writing to the strangeness of the Tucson area with his newest guidebook, “Secret Tucson: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure.”

Friday night is fast approaching, with a full slate of tantalizing contests that are sure to warrant your attention. 

At Marana Police Department, culture is key to serving our community with unparalleled service and unwavering protection. Whether it’s conducting traffic stops, making public appearances or leading our Citizen’s Police Academy, public safety starts with a sincere desire to help people and ma…

Saturday, Oct. 12 marks 100 years since the formation of the American Legion veterans’ organization, and to celebrate the date, the Oro Valley American Legion Post 132 is offering the public the opportunity to not only discuss history, but meet those who helped form it. 

REAL HEROES

October in Tucson means it’s time for one of the most beloved—not to mention tasty—events of the year: the Tucson Meet Yourself Folklife Festival. Every year, Tucson Meet Yourself focuses on bringing the community together through folklife traditions, such as cultural dances, art, music and food. 

We’ve reached the final month of the high school football regular season, with the state playoffs bearing down on players and coaches alike. 

Drivers along Interstate 10 should avoid using the Marana Road exit for the next few hours, according to the Marana Police Department, after a semi-truck collided with a guard rail on the exit ramp.

Welcome to week eight of the high school football season, better known as the home stretch of the regular season. 

Two people died after the pickup truck they were in was struck by a train on the westbound Frontage Road near Avra Valley Road and Interstate 10 in Marana, according to the Marana Police Department.

The seventh week of high school football in Southern Arizona is upon us, with several tantalizing matchups on the gridiron on Friday night. 

Wednesday night, the Oro Valley Town Council voted to keep the town-owned community center and two 18-hole golf courses in a decision that has—for the most part—ended more than a year of uncertainty regarding the facilities’ future.

A whirlwind of Sedona red and black swept across the freshly painted ice at the Tucson Arena on a recent Tuesday afternoon. 

The Oro Valley Marketplace, a once-envisioned community hub for the town, has coped with vacant storefronts for years. Now, the development’s luck may be changing.

Sometimes, it just takes a few retirees to get the ball rolling on a community benefit project.

Courtney Weber considers her grandmother a legendary teacher, and remembers spending summers as a child listening to stories about the profession.

Two of the northwest’s hottest girls volleyball teams engaged in a five-set instant classic on Tuesday night in Oro Valley. 

One of the most prolific running backs in Southern Arizona will make his long-awaited season debut on Friday night. 

October in Oro Valley is filled with fun, frights and festivities.

EVERY VOTE COUNTS

The Mayor and Town Council have been deliberating on a potential closure or repurposing of the golf courses for nearly a year.  The rhetoric in the special study sessions and council meetings suggests that this is a critical economic issue for all Oro Valley residents whether you play golf o…

1. Celebrate 60 years of Motown with legendary singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson. Details: 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5; UA Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd.; $50-$225; ticketmaster.com.

Making Strides of Tucson

She wasn’t doing a self-exam,or anything like that. Katy Gierlach was just drying off after a shower when she felt a lump. She asked her partner, Jared McKinley, to feel it. It seemed too large and hard for them to not have noticed it before.

Linda Hoffman was lying in a hospital bed in 1976, recovering from her first mastectomy, when she first heard about it.

A new exhibition at the Ventana Gallery at Roche Tissue Diagnostics is turning medical equipment into empowerment for local cancer patients. The “Superheroes, Capes of Strength and Beauty” art installation features 75 “mammocapes” redesigned by artists and auctions them off to raise funds fo…

1989.

I do not live on a golf course, and I don’t play golf, but I am a concerned citizen of Oro Valley and have been closely watching the golf debate.  We have had a four-plus year history of providing 36 holes of golf. We have continued to lose a significant amount of money ($1.7 million in FY20…

Under the leadership of publisher Jason Joseph and managing editor Logan Burtch-Buus, the Explorer and its sister newspapers in the Tucson Local Media family of publications brought home 29 awards in this year’s Arizona Newspapers Association competition, including 10 first-place awards.

Welcome to the seventh week of the high school football season in Southern Arizona, with several regional rivalries taking place on Friday night. 

Looking to get Fido forgiven? 

After receiving the results of a necropsy, the Reid Park Zoo announced that Elinor, the 20-year-old reticulated giraffe that passed away earlier this month, developed lymphoma before she died.

Welcome to week seven of the high school football season, with playoff implications ratcheting up by the hour. 

The Arizona Wildcats (2-1, 0-0) return to the gridiron at Tucson's Arizona Stadium at 7:30 p.m. local time to host the University of California Angeles Bruins on Saturday.

A crescendo of cheers rained down in the fourth set of Thursday’s volleyball match between Canyon del Oro and Catalina Foothills.