SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - A 5-month-old Chihuahua dubbed "Cholla Charlie" has found his forever home after getting into a prickly situation in Surprise last month. After the puppy was found covered ...

Spend any amount of time out in the desert, and chances are you've encountered a jumping cholla. It happens to the best of us. The cylindropuntia fulgida, AKA chain-fruit or jumping cholla, has a ...

Spring has once again returned to the deserts of North America, and with her return, so too have the amazing colorful blooms of desert wildflowers and cacti. Because of the winter rains, this land, so ...

Newcomers to the desert are having horrible accidents with cholla. One was a golfer who fell into one making a shot in the rough. Another mountain biker got flipped into major cholla and had to be ...

The Phoenix Parks and Recreation department declines to provide any timeline for when Camelback Mountain’s popular Cholla Trail will reopen, but says plans to relocate the trailhead could be finalized ...

Martha Ames Burgess started her cholla bud workshop at Feliz Paseos Park last week by showing what are perhaps the two most important tools for harvesting the immature cactus flowers: a comb and ...

The Cholla Cactus Garden, located about 12 miles south of the park's North Entrance, is home to one of the few stands of cholla cactus in the park. The short, quarter-mile Cholla Cactus Garden Nature ...

PHOENIX - The Cholla Trail on Camelback Mountain has officially reopened after being closed for more than two years for renovations and improvements. "For me, this is my favorite trail," said hiker ...

You’ve seen prickly pear jam at the supermarket, but did you know many varieties of cholla cactus are edible straight from the ground? According to the James Beard Foundation’s Foods of the Southwest ...

One of the great driving adventures in the California desert is the trip to see Munz's Cholla (Cylindropuntia munzii). It is worth the time and expense as Munz's Cholla is the tallest endemic cactus ...

PHOENIX, AZ – Arizona recently proposed a new regional haze plan for the aging coal-fired Cholla Power Plant that would weaken current regulations and put communities, national parks and other ...