The Santa Cruz River used to be the source of life across southern Arizona. For thousands of years, it fed farms, supported wildlife, and gave water to Native communities. Beginning in the San Rafael ...

A steady stream of water could one day flow along a dry stretch of the Santa Cruz River in Sahuarita, thanks to an effort by Pima County and a coalition of water managers and conservationists. As ...

The Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona is hot and sandy. But where the Santa Cruz River flows, you’ll find something like an oasis. Birds sing among dense copses of mesquite trees; flowers hang ...

A group of local stewards sits along the downtown reach of the Santa Cruz River. Every Sunday, they pick up trash and remove invasive species as a part of a grassroots reconciliation project.

On the Santa Cruz River just above the Sanders Road bridge in Marana, water flows past towering stands of native Gooding’s willow trees on one bank and non-native tamarisks on the other. Bird calls ...

On a quiet Thursday night in Southern Arizona, urgency ripples through the valleys of Cochise and Santa Cruz counties.

Firefighters and a bystander rescued four people and a dog from the swift waters of the Santa Cruz River in Tucson on July 4. Crews were dispatched at 2:47 p.m. to a swift water rescue near Prince ...

Once dry and desolate, this riverbed in southern Arizona has been given new life. “The idea of bringing water back to the Santa Cruz River for Tucsonans has been around for about 100 years. That's ...

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