The average daily rate was significantly higher in Arizona, at $79, and in Phoenix at $95, while Tucson came in closer to the national average at $72, based on surveys in July and August.

The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old

Our city and county need more recreational fields for all types of youth sports and the time has come to make this a priority for our community. While we are frustrated by recent developments with respect to the future of

Young Wright is seeking election for the first time. She was appointed to fill the seat of Rep. Lena Saradnik, who stepped aside for health reasons in January.

Winslow, who spent three days at the Cleveland Clinic earlier this month with an undisclosed illness, revealed he had a staph infection — for the second time — before lashing out at Browns general manager Phil Savage as his teammates

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin, already found by one investigation to have abused her power, will take time from her vice presidential campaign Friday to give a deposition in a second inquiry into her firing of the state's top

With the nation's economic turmoil creating favorable conditions for Democrats two weeks from Election Day, Obama has focused his final-stretch message almost entirely on that topic — and on Republican turf like economically precarious and politically significant Florida, where he

McCain recalled being ready to launch a bombing run during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which Biden said over the weekend tested a new President John F. Kennedy and was the template for the kind of "generated crisis" Obama

The site along the Arizona-Utah line offers a rich new set of clues about the lives of dinosaurs 190 million years ago.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said today that the fatal-crash rate involving motorcycles equipped with optional antilock brakes, or ABS, was 38 percent lower than the rate involving similar motorcycles without the systems.

Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy is among at least seven pharmacies across the nation that are refusing as a matter of faith to sell contraceptives of any kind, even if a person has a prescription. States across the country have been

A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday accused former police Lt. Jon Burge of perjury and obstruction of justice for statements he made in 2003 when answering questions for a civil-rights lawsuit.

The struggle to stop cell- phone use in prisons — where some experts say the devices have become a new form of cash — has states trying old-fashioned cell searches, sophisticated body scanners, even dogs trained to sniff out batteries

More than 60 members of the Southern California-based Mongol Motorcycle Club were arrested under a federal racketeering indictment that included charges of murder, attempted murder and assault, as well as gun and drug violations, said Mike Hoffman, Bureau of Alcohol,

A U.S. contractor hired to teach Iraqis about good government physically lost that amount in cash, then claimed the loss as "an expense."

Sunday's first announcement of the Bowl Championship Series produced only one Pac-10 team — USC at No. 5.

Shaking thin fillets with a boxed coating and baking them can leave them dry. Frying yields unsatisfactory results, too. Fillets poached in a tomato-wine sauce are good but their texture is lacking, maybe from the acid in the tomatoes. A

Tierra Antigua Realty is currently the largest locally owned and operated real estate brokerage in Tucson and Southern Arizona with over 800 agents in Southern Arizona.

The two top finishers also came with handy steamer inserts, which we did not test but can add to the appliance's versatility.