YUMA — When Mark Kuechel was a boy, he nearly got lost in the maze of unnamed dirt roads and citrus groves in eastern Yuma County running his dad's tractor. He couldn’t see the horizon over 28,000 ...

Those oranges, lemons and grapefruits that you buy at the grocery store or grow in your backyard originated thousands of years ago in Asia, in an area bordered by India, Myanmar (Burma) and China.

He said his family was the first and last to plant citrus in Orange. By 1974, his father owned the only farm left in the city. Now he fears Yuma, where they got a fresh start, is “gonna go just like ...

Citrus remains an iconic stamp of Arizona's history and a symbol of agricultural heritage dating back to when the industry was inscribed as one of the foundational Five C's that built the economy of a ...