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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

A part of the locomotive storage facility west of Benson, Arizona.  (Photo courtesy of the University of Arizona Journalism School)

See them long trains run and watch them disappear

Emily homa April 5, 2018

Drive along the I-10 interstate east toward Benson. Quick! Look out your window! Do you see that long, curving line of mustard yellow metal that seems to go on forever? Notice that they are massive...

House development challenges Benson, San Pedro River

House development challenges Benson, San Pedro River

Erik Kolsrud March 10, 2017

BENSON -- The future of the 70,000-person residential community Villages at Vigneto lives or dies on a single decision by the Army Corps of Engineers, potentially dooming the San Pedro River or reversing...

photo by Jordan Glenn

Killing the San Pedro

Victoria Teplitz May 4, 2016

  A colossal proposed housing development in Benson, Arizona, threatens to deplete the San Pedro River and the local water supply within five years of completion.       *Click the Image...

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