If longtime Tucsonans can seem rather blasé about weather scenarios like the one in our regional news this week, 1997 may well be the reason. In late September that year, a hurricane named Nora was speeding north from Baja, Mexico, aided by waters warmed ... See more
Lyft driver Tomselyn Tso says she was sitting in her car at the light at Sixth Avenue and Congress Street in downtown Tucson at bar closing time early Sunday when she heard gunshots. "I think there were like, maybe more than 15 shots that went off." It wa... See more
Disciplinary actions taken against Chris Nanos more than 40 years ago when he was a police officer in Texas are irrelevant to his performance today as the elected sheriff of Pima County, his attorney tells the Board of Supervisors. The Pima County board h... See more
Salman Rushdie, the biggest literary name at the 2026 Tucson Festival of Books, spoke to several thousand people Sunday on a festival stage at the University of Arizona. The author of 23 books, including the Booker Prize-winning "Midnight's Children" in 1... See more
For all of his intellectualism and potentially intimidating reputation as one of the most acclaimed writers of the late 20th century, Salman Rushdie's sentences are powered in part by "a comic propulsion," author Gary Shteyngart pointed out Sunday at the ... See more
