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March 22, 2013Reporters for the New York Times rode a subway this week to ask riders about Scottsdale.In the Scottsdale Convention and Visitors Bureau's latest attempt to get New Yorkers to visit Scottsdale, it's decorated subway cars, themed with potential tourist draws, like golf. The best part of this being, o ... More >>
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January 10, 2013The ultra-popular Echo Canyon Trail and its trailhead at Phoenix's Camelback Mountain will be closed from January 28 until sometime this fall for renovations.
Initial reports about the closure indicated that only the trailhead would be closed as workers built a new entrance to the mountain park, a ... More >>
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June 25, 2012There have been only 10 documented bear attacks in Arizona since 1990.Three of those have come in the last month.A Tempe man hanging out at the Ponderosa Campground in the Tonto National Forest was the third person attacked by a bear this month, after the bear went into his tent around 5 a.m. yester ... More >>
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February 1, 2012Deep in the east Valley, between the Superstitions and Saguaro Lake in the shadows of the Four Peaks, a ribbon of rolling roadway known as Bush Highway cuts through the desert.Meandering along the banks of the Salt River, this stretch of tarmac unwinds through undulating terrain lined with saguaros ... More >>
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September 1, 2011
Three boys whose grandfather forced them on torturous marches across tough Grand Canyon trails told rangers their entire summer had been filled with travel and abuse.The three boys -- 8, 9 and 12 -- told how their grandpa, Christopher Carlson of Indianapolis, injured them repeatedly during t ... More >>
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September 1, 2011Image: www.sedonahikingadventures.comJames Reich, owner of Sedona Hiking Adventures, has been sentenced to two days in jail for running an illegal guide service on national forest lands.
A Sedona-based hiking guide has been sentenced to two days in jail and is banned from national forests for ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
Image: Wikimedia CommonsTwo likely very unhappy campers are getting questioned today in connection with a campfire left burning on May 29 that apparently started the largest wildfire in Arizona history.
Media reports state that the feds aren't releasing names, nor have they arreste ... More >>
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February 14, 2011Coming soon to downtown Phoenix.Driving through downtown Phoenix today, we thought to ourselves "hmmm, this city definitely needs a collection of giant, gaudy, lighted ads for things like Pepsi, and Doritos -- on par with places like Las Vegas and Times Square -- to line the sides of buildings ne ... More >>
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December 23, 2010Especially when you’re trying to enjoy nature
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November 25, 2010Check out hundreds of works at dusty outpost
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June 17, 2010Transportation moves us at ASU Art Museum
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January 14, 2010A rare chance to see an elderly Phoenix spot
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September 16, 2009
Authorities had searched high and low for 53-year-old Kelley Tate (above), who went missing in the rugged Superstition Mountains last Thursday. But they didn't search low enough.
After 150 searchers combed the mountains for days, utilizing dogs, horses, and a helicopter, a phoned-in tip led ... More >>
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September 3, 2009www.scottybud.comAs we sit on the cusp of kissing the daunting 110 degree days goodbye for eight glorious months, we can be certain of one thing: They're coming.That's right; as the majority of the country prepares to freeze its ass off for the rest of the year, as Phoenicians we prepare for the ... More >>
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July 15, 2009Image: www.chrismcnamara.com
BASE jumper Chris McNamara must pay a $5,000 fine for leaping from a cliff in the Grand Canyon National Park.
The winged daredevil and climber from Marin County, California did his wicked deed on November 5, 2007, during a badass Canyon adventure with climbing superstar ... More >>
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July 9, 2009“Warhol of the Wilderness” bags awe-inspiring views
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March 5, 2009CenPho historic district stakes its claim with awesome tour/fest
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February 19, 2009Too many friends? Here’s how to lose a few.
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January 29, 2009Even he-man hikers can swallow their pride at Spur Cross
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November 27, 2008Even he-man hikers can swallow their pride at Spur Cross
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March 27, 2008Check out the ’hood with the shiz
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February 21, 2008Who’s laughing now, fruit-eaters?
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February 21, 2008Stealing some sun from the Sunshine State
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February 14, 2008Jolly noisemakers hike to the beat of a different drum
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March 6, 2007Culture
June 2, 2005Cool your jets -- and everything else -- at a local spa
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September 18, 2003T. Cook's at the Royal Palms
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March 19, 1998Like some weather cycle, the battle between skiers and Native American religion returns to Arizona Snowbowl
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February 20, 1997The only thing slick about Arizona Snowbowl is the snow
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