AGUA PRIETA, Mexico — A quiet revolution was born in the town of Salvador Urbina in Chiapas, Mexico, when several small farming families joined together to form the first of a number of organic coffee growing co-operatives more than five years ago.

Los Desconocidos, a nonprofit sewing and artist cooperative that began with the intention of cleaning up the Sonoran Desert, is now working to turn that trash into treasure and help families struggling to survive.

TUCSON, Ariz. —
Saturday and Sunday, March 29-30, the Barrio Hollywood neighborhood celebrated their 6th Annual Fiesta Grande Street Fair.


The festival began six years ago after a sewer line broke beneath the intersection of Speedway Boulevard and Grande Avenue. The damage from the sewer break, as well as the sanitation issues it created, resulted in the temporary displacement of some residents and loss of customers for local businesses.

Tour Tucson's historic Barrio Hollywood neighborhood and its sixth annual Fiesta Grande.

Many families turn to agencies, such as the Tucson-based International Child Foundation, Inc., for help in adopting children from other countries. A large percentage of these intercountry adoptions are from Guatemala.

TUCSON, Ariz. — Border Patrol often gets a bad rap.



Not only do accuse them of abusing the rights of immigrants, but curse them for failing to keep the border air-tight. Politicians, pressured by the demands of their constituents in regards to immigration issues, in turn pressure the Border Patrol agency.

Check out a video from the Copa Bud Light Soccer Tournament.

Expansion changes to Tucson shopping complex concerns some and attracts others.

El Nacimiento will be going off exhibit this month at the Tucson Museum of Art to undergo renovation.

An effort to put a face - many faces - to the issue of illegal immigration along the Arizona border.

The Operation Streamline initiative, to curb the number of illegal entrants is not just hardly solving the problem, but is extremely costly to local government.

Applying for a U.S. visa can be a complicated process.

New legislation requiring U.S. citizens to produce proof of identification as well as citizenship when crossing the border from Mexico has caused confusion among many, but can not deter college students from traveling south to enjoy spring break.

Young border crossers found in Southern Arizona are sent to halfway houses in Nogales, Son.

Nearly 300 enthusiastic anti-war, anti-torture demonstrators from around the southwest lined the streets outside the main gate of Fort Huachuca Nov. 18, 2007 playing music, reading poetry, flying flags and yelling, “Close Guantanamo,” “No torture” and “Out of Iraq.”

Every weekend underage students head to the Arizona-Mexico border to party and socialize in Mexico’s many clubs and bars. Though it may be legal to drink in Mexico, crossing back into the United States while intoxicated is a crime.

Weather conveys information regarding border deaths to a UA School of Medicine professor.

In the fiscal year 2006 (Oct. 1, 2006 to Sept. 31 2007), 237 bodies were recovered in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico.

Securing a reliable water supply for the border’s future is becoming more difficult for many counties throughout the region.

On a blustery day in Nogales, Sonora, five men beat a language barrier and other issues to accomplish a single task: roofing a grey brick church with aluminum siding.

Both the federal government and the state government have introduced plans to curb hiring illegal immigrants.

Outside of Nogales, beyond the street vendors, authentic Mexican food, clubs and other tourist attractions, 13 families make their homes in a landfill.