Arizona Desert

After more than 50 years of biosolids use in Yuma, the future of AgTech’s operation on state trust land is now deeply uncertain.

Arizona officials are terminating AgTech LLC’s state land leases in Yuma County, citing lease violations and operations outside the company’s permitted agricultural scope. AgTech disputes the decision, plans to appeal and warns of potential effects on jobs, biosolids management costs and Arizona’s agricultural industry.

A state agency acted illegally in imposing what developers are calling a "tax'' they have to pay to build in certain areas that don't have regular sources of water, a judge has concluded.

An endangered bat species has been detected in southeastern Arizona.

Buffelgrass is changing rocky terrain into grassland, providing a path for fire between decades old saguaro cactus that did not exist before.

The Arizona Game and Fish Department has 150 Sonoran Desert Tortoises in need of homes before the cool temperatures send the reptiles into a long sleep.

In May 2001-a group of 26 illegal immigrants from Mexico attempting to cross the U.S. Mexico Border were left to fend for themselves in the Arizona desert…