Rock ’n Babies Upscale Resale, Green Baby Elephant and Sun Sprout will be host to the Tucson site of an international cloth diaper changing event taking place on Saturday, April 20, two days before Earth Day. In its third year with over 182 sites in 11 countries, The Great Cloth Diaper Change event will attempt to break last year’s Guinness World Record™ of 8,251 cloth diapers changed around the world at one time.

During the Greater Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce’s annual awards’ breakfast that featured local business leaders, there was one award that stood out. That award was the Community Leader of the Year honor, which was handed to Oro Valley resident Bill Adler.

The Oro Valley community is mourning the loss of former Town Councilman Kenneth “KC” Carter, who died on Saturday.

Thank you for your recent coverage of the Oro Valley Holiday Parade.  I feel that it is important that your readers know some of the back story that defines this event.  First and foremost, the Oro Valley Parade Committee, Inc., is comprised of two members—Jackie Devery and Pat Jimenez—who volunteer countless hours to ensure that this piece of Americana successfully arrives in our town the second Saturday in December.

Southern Arizona lost a lot more than a great, retired journalist with the passage of Ace Bushnell. We lost one of our truly great citizens when he died March 14 at the age of 85.

Persistent budget deficits and potential duplication of services could mean cutbacks or termination of an Oro Valley transit program.

A dispute over which government should pay for a series of wildlife crossings along Oracle Road has been resolved.

Northwest Fire workers pulled a body out of the Central Arizona Project canal near the Marana Northwest Regional Airport on Thursday, March 3.

A primary election contest for two seats on the Marana Town Council is scheduled for Tuesday, March 8.

Costs presented in a study commissioned by Marana officials to evaluate what residents would pay for wastewater service if the town operated its own sewer system differs from similar research conducted by Pima County.

Even though economists predicted the end of the recession nearly two years ago, the downturn continues to wreak havoc in private and public sectors.

A bill under consideration in the Arizona Legislature would eliminate the state’s Medicaid system, which provides health care services for more than 1.3 million residents.

After less than three years on the job, the executive director of the Northern Pima County Chamber of Commerce has resigned.

The long-fought effort to pass a comprehensive environmental ordinance in Oro Valley has ended.

Pima County plans to rename a park and trailhead after two victims of the Jan. 8 shooting that claimed six lives and left U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords hospitalized.

The Regional Transportation Authority has begun a new transit service in Oro Valley.

Every February since 2007, the biggest names in the world of golf have descended on the Town of Marana for the World Golf Championships — Accenture Match Play.

Pima County officials have written a proposal designed to end the stalemate with Marana over wastewater treatment.

Call it a meeting of the minds or perhaps a show of solidarity.

The Oro Valley Town Council plans to discuss the proposed environmentally sensitive lands ordinance again at its regular meeting on Wednesday. Feb. 16.

State officials have begun the involved process of writing the rules that will regulate the burgeoning medical marijuana industry.

Pawnbrokers and second-hand shops in Oro Valley soon will have a new set of rules.

The extreme cold weather that burst through the Tucson area last week left in its trail broken water pipes and gas outages, and forced many people out of their homes.

The indignity of losing a job can perhaps only be equaled by the difficulties often associated with finding new employment.

The Oro Valley Town Council could adopt a set of rules designed to keep track of who sells items at pawnshops and scrap metal dealers.