For East Coast transplants missing their hometown pizza, Venezia’s offers a taste of home in the desert. Nestled among the pines of Arizona’s high country, this rustic gem is worth the drive. The ...

Arizona’s culinary landscape is just as vibrant and varied as its stunning desert vistas. Blending rich Native American ...

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens. For the Tohono O’odham Nation, harvest time ...

Relive Arizona’s eighties drive-thru glory days with 15 long-lost fast-food favorites that locals still dream about.

Experience Arizona's pristine desert while hiking along incredible trails at the largest urban preserve in the Lower 48, just ...

A cholla cactus is seen in Saguaro National Park. Credit: John Burcham/SPUN Though invisible on the surface of the desert, researchers have found in recent decades that mycorrhizal fungi are a ...

ABC15 Meteorologist Ashlee DeMartino talked with the Desert Botanical Garden during the Saguaro Census 2025 to get an update on cactus health and what to expect around our environment.

A new study finds that severely hot and dry weather dramatically increased saguaro mortality at two ends of the Sonoran Desert in 2020 and 2021 and that generally, the health of saguaros and other ...

The Brief The iconic Saguaro cactus is struggling as heat and drought intensify in Arizona. With record-setting summers in 2020, 2023 and 2024, scientists at the Desert Botanical Garden are ...