Sandra Noriega teaches fourth grade GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) at White Elementary. Noriega says it was her child’s GATE teacher—also at White Elementary—who motivated her to become a teacher.

When her own two children, now young adults, attended White, Noriega volunteered in... Read more

Kathleen Bowman teaches fifth grade at Manzanita Elementary. She teaches social studies and one of the math classes.

Student Sarah Rose nominated Bowman because she says her teacher “has ways that really help me and other kids” and “knows how to teach us in a way that we can really... Read more

Linda Anderson admits that she took awhile to start her teaching career. Although it was something she always aspired to, she ended up working at a bank for many years before she became a teacher.

Anderson says it was her friends at church who urged her to return to school and finish her... Read more

Top Photo: Mrs. Walker at Acacia is honored.

The friendly doctors and staff at Dr. JAW Orthodontists work hard to give kids happy, healthy smiles. Dr. JAW wants to give teachers in Southern Arizona... Read more

Music and wonderful smells fill the air, and skulls and skeletons are everywhere—some made of sugar, others made of paper-mache. And for some reason, the cemetery is aglow with families decorating with bright orange flowers and cleaning the gravesites of loved ones.

Welcome to “El Día de... Read more

Photo courtesy of the FBI

It seems the Wicked Witch of the West wasn’t the only one trying to get her hands on Dorothy’s ruby slippers. The ICONIC shoes, seen in dazzling Technicolor in the 1939... Read more

Gigantic 100-foot Gila monster found on Tucson road!

Phoenix buried in snow after week-long August blizzard!

Sometimes fake news is easy to spot because it’s so silly and unbelievable you know it’s made up. But sometimes it is not quite as easy to separate fact from fiction.... Read more

Between Flag Day and Independence Day, summer brings out a lot of patriotism and many people put the American flag out on display. You may not think much about it when you see the red, white and blue flying, but did you know that the American flag has a history dating back almost 250 years?... Read more

photo courtesy of NASA

One of NASA’s most famous telescopes, Hubble, hit a rough patch last month but is now back on track!

The Hubble Space Telescope began experiencing a problem on Oct. 5, when one... Read more

Top Photo: A sea turtle struggles through ghost nets. Photo credit: Francis Perez/PBS.org

A strange looking CONTRAPTION was hauled out to sea last month, and its creators hope that it will... Read more