Stories Archive

For more than a decade, Arizona Highways' annual photo contest has celebrated the work of amateur photographers from across the country as they...

THE LAST REMAINING LEAVES on the Fremont cottonwood hold the sun as it slips through a notch in the Grand Canyon’s southern wall. Trunks and limbs,...

Wearing a close-fitting fleece and jeans, Loop Rawlins (pictured) leans into the trunk of his sedan at Tucson’s White Stallion Ranch. He looks like...

There’s no wrong way to spend time at the Grand Canyon. It is, after all, one of the world’s most famous natural wonders and the pride of the Grand...

The Navajos called them “Anasazi.” And, for seven decades, so did archaeologists. But, in the 1990s, a new generation of politically correct scholars...

Running a family business has been in the Basha family’s blood for centuries. After emigrating from Lebanon, the family operated a store in New York...

There’s no mistaking a North American beaver (Castor canadensis) for another semi-aquatic mammal, such as an otter. Beavers are bigger, beefier and,...

When European immigrants ventured into the southwest corner of Arizona Territory in the late 19th century, they considered the Sonoran Desert a...