From the Bird Cage Theatre to Vulture Mine, the Copper State keeps a fair share of haunted addresses with very bloody pasts.
Take the tourA gunfight at Doc Holliday's Saloon leaves one man in hospital and another in jail — in the town too tough to die.
Oven mitts on the steering wheel, buckled highways and grounded planes at 119°F. Summer in Arizona gets strange.
The Ledger
Five genuinely haunted addresses, from Yuma to Jerome.
Why, Nothing, Santa Claus, Surprise, Chloride and Bagdad.
A routine chore, an unknown bug, and doctors left baffled.
A shootout at Doc Holliday's, straight out of 1881.
A domestic dispute, a 911 call, and an arrest.
The Chandler songwriter on the show, and life after it.
Flamin' Hot everything, fish tacos and a suspiciously good crepe.
The Diamondbacks slugger on relevance over money.
Jousting, turkey legs and 200 artisans in Gold Canyon.
From Our Own Reporting
Reader-Loved · Local Guide
Places, makers and outfits our readers keep coming back to across the Copper State.
Celebrates the seasoned and self-assured — a vintage worth every sun-baked mile.
Pure frontier confidence, the kind that walks into a room and changes the weather.
Runs a route even the wildest Wild West chronicler couldn't have scripted.
Sometimes the most memorable chapters are written by those who toss out the rulebook entirely.
Has spent two decades perfecting its craft — the same devotion AZ Reporter brings to every tall tale.
Chase trends the way AZ Reporter chases the strangest dispatches from the Sonoran fringe.
Arizona After Dark
Tombstone · Cochise County
O.K. Corral, boot hills and a saloon shootout that echoes 1881.
Statewide · The Copper State
Six real Arizona place names that defy all explanation.
Chandler · East Valley
A curse, a camel spider, or just the creepy desert doing its thing?
Fresh Off The Wire
Jousting, turkey legs, 13 stages and 200 artisans, February through April.
Flamin' Hot everything, a fish taco worth the risk, and frothy 'fruit' water.
The Arizona songwriter on Blake Shelton, blind auditions and his album 'Scorpio'.
The Photo Desk
Be Informed
Arizona's strangest, most sensational and most-talked-about stories, rounded up and sent your way. No filler, just the good stuff.
In Good Company
Outfits rooted in the same sun-baked, story-rich soil.
Its name says it all: the most compelling stories always live right on that contradictory edge.
Proves the best discoveries need a little convincing first.
Captures every breathtaking moment in crystal-clear detail — obsessive documentation is always worth it.
Flips the script, and in Arizona, the underdog rewriting expectations is always the best headline.
Delivers big, bold contrasts in stunning detail — very much a Copper State value.
Captures that rare, overflowing warmth Arizona sunsets never quite explain.