Sonora’s governor says his government hopes to one day build a highway connecting the small border town of Sásabe with the rest of the Mexican state’s highway system.
Gov. Alfonso Durazo told reporters Wednesday that the highway project would make it easier for Arizona residents to visit more of the state’s long Gulf of California coastline.
“Their demand for beach and sun, for lodging and hotels, will change from Puerto Peñasco and San Carlos to the beaches of Caborca,” Durazo said.
The municipality of Caborca includes a series of small beach towns south of the current popular beach destination of Puerto Peñasco, or Rocky Point.
The project would involve paving much of the long stretch of road between the Sonoran town of Altar and the small port of entry into Arizona at Sásabe. Durazo’s government has not released a detailed plan or announced funding for the highway project.
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Andrés Manuel López Beltrán says the revocation of his U.S. visa was politically motivated. -
The project to clean up sediment and soil in the Rio Sonora comes more than a decade after what Mexico considers the worst environmental mining disaster in its history. Some say the government and Grupo México could have done more and demand transparency. -
As officials turn to native trees to deal with urban heat, Sonora is hoping to create a "green lung" in the state capital. -
Mexican authorities have arrested a former Mexican governor accused of concealing evidence related to the case of 43 students who went missing in 2014. -
As summer temperatures have soared, so too have cases of dehydration and heatstroke in the Mexican state south of Arizona.
