For Residents of Arizona Border Town, Towers Are Unwelcome Eyes in the Sky
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ARIVACA, Ariz. -- The document arrived at the library one sleepy Saturday morning, without warning and without explanation. The librarian recalled that the messenger simply said: "This is sensitive."
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The Homeland Security Department is planning nine nearly 100-foot-tall towers with cameras and other equipment scanning 28 miles of the Arizona border with Mexico.
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Federal officials are concerned that terrorists could try to down aircraft by blinding pilots with laser beams during landing approaches.
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Skies here were overcast by day, rainy by night. An uninitiated visitor might expect around-the-clock gloom to deepen despair over the local nine and their two-game
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A planned border fence has provoked alarm among land owners fearful of being cut off from their own property.
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A blaze in a skyscraper in the Spanish capital lights up the night sky but no-one is thought to have been inside.
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By Richard Salit; Journal Staff Writer  NEWPORT - The sun, a pale ghost of itself, struggles to climb above the horizon. The temperature hovers slightly above zero, and the wind whips mercilessly out of the northwest.
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PHOENIX -- The protesters gather every morning before dawn, monitoring the entrance to a fenced compound called the Macehualli Work Center. They are trying to shut the place down. They wave placards and take photos of anyone driving in to pick up the day laborers who congregate there. They want...
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While ties to Mexico run deep in Arizona, it is also where more people cross illegally from Mexico than anywhere else along the border.
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By Paul Burgarino, STAFF WRITER  SAN RAMON -- A boisterous group of residents packed into City Council chambers this week, concerned about the environmental and aesthetic effects of a proposed land-use plan just outside the city's northwest border.
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SILVERBELL, Ariz. -- Among the statuesque saguaro cactuses in the desert south of this old mining town lies the remnant of a crime scene that federal authorities say signals a troubling and escalated level of violence associated with the human smuggling trade.
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Local leaders in South Texas are puzzled and alarmed over the implications of a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Some people have nightmares, others   fear tall buildings and others cringe at the sound of airplanes   overhead.
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By KERRY CAVANAUGH\\ Staff Writer  Frustrated that a Sunland-Tujunga developer has skirted building regulations with few penalties, City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel said Monday she wants to give municipal agencies more power to stop and punish rulebreakers.
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PHOENIX -- When residents of Maricopa, Ariz., south of Phoenix, vote in the presidential primaries Tuesday, it will be against a backdrop of vacant storefronts and sprawling, terra-cotta roofed subdivisions that are studded with for-sale signs as far as the eye can see.
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Driving toward this tiny town feels like nearing the edge of the earth, a place of jagged red-rock peaks surrounding dry valleys covered in pinyon trees.
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Arizona tourists may think theyâve stumbled upon a science fiction movie set if they find themselves near the stateâs famed Meteor Crater in early September.