With more people in the Tucson area turning away from their gas-guzzling vehicles and hopping on motorcycles, proper safety training is vital for new riders, police and experts say.

Early design work is under way to restore the 1929 facade on the Walgreens building, 44 N. Stone Ave., which started life as a Montgomery Ward.

The desert tortoise gnawing on Daniel Marchand’s shoelace has plenty of company at this reptile sanctuary.

Tucsonans will be saying, “Hello, Dolly,” this weekend when the remnants of the hurricane passes over the area starting Friday night, according to the National Weather Service in Tucson.

The city’s police radar van is scheduled to snap photos of speeders at these locations today, according to the Tucson Police Department’s Web site:

State police gather at a scene of a shootout this morning in which at least 7 people were killed in an industrial area of Nogales, Sonora.

A Tucson attorney who was sanctioned to the tune of $750,000 last fall over his handling of a mold-related lawsuit has reached a settlement with the attorneys for the other side.

PHOENIX - A hospital in Show Low in eastern Arizona is the first Arizona medical center outside the state’s metro areas to be designated a trauma care center.

A Tucson man accused of robbing two convenience-store clerks — kidnapping and raping one of them — was convicted Monday of all 14 charges he faced.

Northwest Medical Center agreed to pay a $1,000 civil penalty for failing to quickly follow physician orders to isolate two measles patients earlier this year.