The Grand Canyon in northern Arizona is listed as one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The Colorado River, running through it for approximately six million years, has established ...

Western Bureau Chief for Courthouse News Service since 2014. San Francisco Federal Reporter and Northern California Bureau Chief from 2006 to 2014. Passionate about photography, camping and history.

SEDONA, Ariz. – I suppose I shouldn’t have taken the parking attendant’s advice so literally. “You’ll know it when you feel it,” he had told me when I asked where I’d find the vortex. I had traveled ...

Vortexes are said to be centers of electromagnetic earth energy that can be felt by humans Sedona is thought to have several vortex “hotspots” Ancient Arizonans revered the area, but never really ...

Plenty of cities in Arizona are well-known hiking havens. Yet the red rock paradise of Sedona boasts a reputation for outdoor adventures surpassed by few other cities of similar size. Sedona, of ...

PHOENIX — With glowing red rocks and a charming downtown, it’s little surprise that Sedona was picked by Architectural Digest as the prettiest city in Arizona. The magazine had a simple task: Find a ...

This 2018 photo shows the town of Sedona, Arizona, seen from the Airport Mesa Loop Trail. From left to right are Thunder Mountain, Sugar Loaf and Coffee Pot Rock. The sleepy Arizona town of Sedona has ...