This story was featured in The Optimist newsletter. Sign up here to receive stories of kindness, resilience and the best among us every Wednesday and Sunday. TUCSON — The giant saguaro, an icon of the ...

You might have noticed our beloved saguaros have been sporting new hairdos lately. No, they're not growing baby avocados at the crown of their heads. These bulbous green nubs are the buds that bloom ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Saguaro National Park in ...

They've appeared in more Western movies than John Wayne. They're the prickly main attraction at a national park on the edge of Tucson. An image of one of them graces the front page of the Arizona ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Cousins Tanisha Tucker Lohse and Maria Francisco set off from their desert camp around dawn on most early summer days, in search of ripe fruit from the towering saguaro cactus, an ...

Business owners and their signmakers have a powerful botanical in their marketing toolbox. With some green paint, a modicum of skill, and a few quick brush strokes, they can convey a fabled region of ...

Arizona’s iconic saguaro cactuses seem like immobile sentinels standing watch over the Sonoran desert landscape. But beneath their still, spiny exteriors, these towering cactuses are actually ...

Geologist Jeff Moore was visiting family in Tucson when he got the idea of adapting tools used to measure earthquakes for the study of saguaro cactuses. Studying the inner structure of a cactus ...