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Western Arizona
By Marshall Trimble, Special to the Los Angeles Times
To get a modern-day perspective on the euphoria Arizonans felt on Feb. 14, 1912, when they were granted statehood, try to imagine the...
Grand Canyon National Park, the 5-million or 6-million-year-old granddaddy of Arizona tourism, logged 4.3 million visitors last year.
By Chris Erskine, Los Angeles Times
For Phoenix food tips, we turned to Andre Ethier, who summers in the right corner of Dodger Stadium and winters at his ranch in Chandler, 30...
Times staff writer Chris Reynolds shows you the Grand Canyon state in 100 seconds.
North of Yuma, in the middle of Arizona's Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, is the re-creation of an old mining town, Castle Domes.
By John Muncie
Elvis was not cooperating.
If I close my eyes, I can almost see Bright Angel Creek spilling into the Colorado River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I've been here...
By Jay Jones
As head of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, Julie Shuster has heard every imaginable story about flying saucers,...
By Gary Robertson
When you think of Las Vegas, you probably don't think of Las Vegas, N.M. It's the other Las Vegas, and perhaps the wildest Wild West town...
By Ken Van Vechten
Ask 10 people to identify the best restaurants in Tucson, and you'll get 10 different answers, nine of which will be a Mexican eatery....
By Catharine Hamm
Things hadn't gone according to plan — do they ever in war? — and now, Lt. James Barrett was going to make them right. The...
By Charlie Vascellaro
The paint has barely dried on the Dodgers' new spring training digs in Glendale, Ariz., and another new venue is making its debut in...
By Christopher Reynolds
"Oldest house," panted Robert Chavez, steering his pedicab past a 17th century adobe.
By Jay Jones
Clayton Sellers'voice echoes off the sheer rock walls that rise from his vantage point along the Colorado River in Black Canyon, just...
Don Shirley
What does Forbes know?
By Charlie Vascellaro
By Charlie Vascellaro
If you think change is the only constant, spring training in Arizona will fit nicely with your belief system.
By Charlie Vascellaro
If you're headed to see the Dodgers in Glendale, Ariz., this spring, know that there's plenty to do besides baseball. About a two-hour drive...
The Grand Canyon isn't Arizona's only majestic presence: head northeast for such low-key gems as Sunset Crater, Lower Antelope Canyon and...