Cochise County News

Gustavo Loza, a successful television producer and director of Mexican comedies, including Los Heroes Del Norte, has created a new TV series based on families and friends living on both sides of the border in Naco Sonora and Arizona. "It's a dramedy that tells us about the lives of two best friends since childhood. One...
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Phoenix television station 3TV brought their Field Trip Friday to Bisbee, interviewing and taking in the cool vibes that chill both tourists and residents alike.
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The Bisbee Police Department has the largest marijuana seizure in its history, when a traffic stop yielded 4793 bundles of marijuana in a rental truck. According to Chief Ben Reyna, this is the largest in the department's history. The tunnel in Naco is the second major tunnel found in Naco since 1999.
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Arizona Governor Doug Ducey plans to shift money from the schools to private prisons. The Governor's plan would build and pay for a new, 3000 bed private prison complex that will cost the taxpayers tens of millions of dollars over the next decade.
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The United States keeps fighting wars and losing them. A former general makes the case that undeclared wars are perpetual motion machines that are unconstitutional and a threat to democracies and peace.
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The Bisbee Film Festival - One People: One Planet is on schedule with ecological films from all over the world.
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John Ladd and his family have approached the ACLU regarding the constant violations of Constitutional and property rights that the Border Patrol commit on a daily basis. Here is a video provided courtesy of the ACLU of Arizona.
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KTVK reported last week that Arizona state Sen. Al Melvin (R) was pushing to purchase $18 million of equipment to build a sonic “virtual fence” from a company owned by American Border Patrol leader Glenn Spencer. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has classified the American Border Patrol as a “hate group,” calling it “one...
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As the number of deportations under President Obama approaches 2 million people and immigration reform lags under Republican obstruction, undocumented immigrants are fighting back through acts of civil disobedience. Hundreds have gathered at the U.S.-Mexico border this week to support a group of undocumented youths and families seeking re-entry into the United States.
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The US Border Patrol has handed down new guidelines for use of deadly force after its agents killed 19 people in 67 shooting incidents between 2010-2012... Why did they fear for their safety? Because they put themselves deliberately in that position, according to a report commissioned by the CBP and written by law...
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