In a new move to protect the state's iconic plant, Saguaro National Park plans to monitor cactus nurseries to prevent the buying and selling of stolen saguaros from the park. "It's a pretty big thing ...

Privacy advocates are feeling prickly over one Arizona town’s unusual traffic camera installation plan. Paradise Valley authorities are placing traffic cameras ...

Noelle Johnson moved from coastal California to the desert in 1986, and everything she planted in her new garden died. She wasn't used to the extremes of Arizona's hot and dry climate and neither were ...

Officials at Saguaro National Park in Arizona are implanting cacti with microchips in an attempt to deter cactus poachers. Saguaro cacti, which are used widely in southwestern landscaping, are popular ...

The city of Paradise Valley in Arizona has installed video surveillance cameras inside fake cacti around the town. The cameras are part of a $2 million police technology upgrade that the Paradise ...

Between crested cactuses and the "four-arm flexing" cactus, Arizona's native flora can take some unusual shapes. Tucson even has the kissing cactus, which looks like a couple embracing. But the T-Rex ...

Joe Davidson is part man, part myth. He’s lean-built, sunkissed, weather-worn, and his piercing blue eyes have seen the world. He’s also the keeper of a colorful past. He stumbled in and out of ...