State lawmakers have no legal right to try to invalidate the designation of nearly a million acres of federal land near the Grand Canyon as a national monument, the Biden administration is telling a federal judge.
Arizona lawmakers have no legal right to fight the designation of federal land near the Grand Canyon as a national monument, the Biden administration says in a new court filing.
A collection of the interesting and sometimes unusual events that happened this week in Arizona history.May 8On this date in 1893, the governor of Arizona Territory commuted the sentences of two editors of Arizona newspapers, convicted of criminal libel, from five days at the Yuma state penitentiary to five days in the Pima County Jail.
A collection of the interesting and sometimes unusual events that happened this week in Arizona history.April 10On this date in 1903, Mason Greenlee, pioneer from Kentucky for whom Greenlee County is named, died.On this date in 1904, Sister Euphrasia, one of five sisters who came to Tucson in 1871 from St. Louis to establish the academy of St. Joseph, died.On this date in
A collection of the interesting and sometimes unusual events that happened this week in Arizona history.April 11On this date in 1903, A.H. Reynolds visited Benson to look into establishing experimental tobacco farms in the San Pedro Valley.On this date in 1910, it was announced that Phoenix contractor R. Toohey had been given the contract for construction of the