The votes are in, and it’s official — the 2025 USA TODAY 10BEST Readers’ Choice Awards have wrangled up the best rodeos in the country. After an expert panel nominated their favorite rodeos, readers ...

People of many backgrounds and races helped shape Arizona’s history. The Arizona Black Rodeo highlights African American contributions while also showcasing the talents of black cowboys and cowgirls.

The Arizona Wildcats rodeo team isn’t celebrating its 100th anniversary like the Tucson Rodeo, but the UA has been in lockstep with the Old Pueblo’s annual tradition for nearly nine decades. The ...

TUCSON, AZ (KGUN) — As the announcer described him over the loudspeaker and the crowd roared, Angel Garcia Nunez patiently waited on his horse inside the bucking chutes at the Sonoita Fairgrounds. He ...

There’s nothing more Tucson than La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, otherwise known as the Tucson Rodeo. It is a staple of life in this Southern Arizona city that has been the home to cowboys and cowgirls for ...

The 39th annual Arizona Gay Rodeo was held Feb. 14 to 16 at Corona Ranch in Laveen. In addition to traditional rodeo activities such as bull riding, barrel racing, chute dogging and calf roping, the ...

Everyone knows the University of Arizona has basketball teams and many people have heard of the UA Quidditch team, but most people don’t know that the UA has a rodeo team. Members of the rodeo team ...

The $15.3 million giveaway in the state budget to Prescott's rodeo has spurred a lawsuit by two residents of the city and a legal rights group who claim the Arizona Constitution bans such spending.

PHOENIX — Jessilee James looks every bit a rodeo veteran as she and her horse thunder from the start gate and weave through a line of poles in the arena, then weave back through to the finish line.

The Rodeo-Chediski Fire scar, May 21, 2021, in the Sitgreaves National Forest near Overgaard, Arizona. Arizona's first modern megafire raged through ponderosa pines 20 years ago this month, burning ...

An Arizona state budget item giving $15.3 million to a rodeo in Prescott has spurred a lawsuit by two city residents and a legal rights group who claim the Arizona Constitution bans such spending.