Daily Deal: Grand Canyon Railway's Earth Day journey and discount

The Grand Canyon Railway is sprucing up its 90-year-old steam train with a green makeover for Earth Day, which is Monday (today). The former...

Looking for cowboys in Prescott, Ariz.

Cowboys are my weakness. That's not just the title of my favorite Pam Houston book, but the truth about my undying fascination with those...

Chocolate nirvana in Santa Fe, N.M.

SANTA FE, N.M. — It's fair to call me a chocoholic, but it wasn't until a trip to Santa Fe that I realized I'd never had the good...

Weekend Escape to Chandler, Ariz.

You come to Chandler, Ariz., for desert deceleration — not that fast life they live in Phoenix and Scottsdale. The city of about 240,...

Arizona: Scottsdale resort offers free night for baseball fans

Scottsdale, Ariz., is the land of vast desert resorts, a place to unwind in winter under fair skies. It's also an area where many of Major...

A field camera that could click with you and your friends

I'm not exactly an early adopter of technology, but when I heard about the Lytro Light Field Camera, my curiosity was aroused. This camera...

The irresistible call of the Grand Canyon

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Who hasn't peered into this brain-bending abyss and failed to conceptualize 6 million years of...

Stepping back in time in Utah, Colorado and New Mexico

MOAB, Utah — The doorknob had smashed a sizable hole in the wall of our room at the Apache Motel. The rusty bathroom ceiling fan...

Arizona: First-rate journeys in the 48th state

To get a modern-day perspective on the euphoria Arizonans felt on Feb. 14, 1912, when they were granted statehood, try to imagine the...

Dining out in Phoenix with Dodger Andre Ethier

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...

At Arizona's Miraval spa, visitor's first time is a charm

Elvis was not cooperating.

Roswell UFO museum's fascinating space

As head of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, Julie Shuster has heard every imaginable story about flying saucers,...

Historic Old West buildings are Las Vegas, N.M.'s jewels

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...

Tucson restaurants worth a whirl

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....

A chapter that's all but forgotten: When the Civil War came west

Things hadn't gone according to plan — do they ever in war? — and now, Lt. James Barrett was going to make them right. The...