Linda Frew and her family are looking for help locating their lost African Sulcata named Cleo.

I’m seriously beginning to wonder about a popular “news” website I visit on occasion and the information stream we are bombarded with every day.  Recent headlines include: “Mating tortoises knock over lamp, burn down garage.” Mr. and Mrs. O’Leary, whose cow burned down Chicago, would have gotten a kick out of that one.  “Man lands in court for laughing too loudly” - “How cats make decisions” - “Could you go a year without pants?”

During the past four years, Bernardo Serna has often driven to the main Gates Pass parking lot, then ridden his bike or hiked along a westside trail. The Pima Community College accounting student always carries his camera to record his frequent encounters with reptiles and amphibians in the Tucson Mountains. 

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Daniel Mangione has been named executive pastry chef for The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain, two-and-a-half years after providing acclaimed culinary leadership at the resort’s 2009 opening celebration. 

The Arizona Game and Fish Department announced an overabundance of captive tortoises has has them looking for residents who are willing to adopt.

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“Life inspires me,” said artist Sherry Tolman. “I don’t take this for granted at all.”

Imagine Santa ensconced in a diminutive sleigh made from a saguaro boot pulled by delicate reindeer crafted from natural devil’s claw.

Fifteen large garbage bags fill the beds of two pickup trucks after one morning spent cleaning up the desert.

As if on cue, the ironwood trees are adorned in annual pink and lavender blossoms for the 10th anniversary of the Ironwood Forest National Monument, the preserve west of Marana that protects 129,000 acres encompassing multiple mountain ranges, nearly 700 plant and animal species, ancient human history and the Sonoran Desert's highest density of ironwood trees.

OVPD steps up its seatbelt law enforcement

Farmers' Market to make buzz about bees

"Reptile Rambles" are back at Tohono Chul Park.