The Diamondbacks are also known for the " Hometown Tour ", held in January, where selected players, management and broadcasters make public appearances, hold autograph signings, etc., in various locations around Phoenix and Tucson, as well as many small and mid-sized towns in other areas of Arizona.

In 2011, they also moved their spring training base from Tucson to a new stadium near the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale.

The move from Yuma to Peoria was very controversial, but was defended by the team as a reflection on the low quality of facilities in Yuma and the long travel necessary to play against other Arizona-based Spring Training teams ( whose sites were all in the Phoenix and Tucson areas, both rather far from Yuma ).

Notable populations exist in the suburbs of Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, where they will feed on ornamental plants and other cultivated vegetation.

* Tucson ( Phoenix )

Because Pinal County is located between Arizona's two largest metropolitan regions, Phoenix and Tucson, suburban growth southward from greater Phoenix has begun to spread into the northern parts of the county ; similarly, growth northward from Tucson is spreading into the southern portions of the county.

In the United States, many Hispanic immigrants from Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean concentrated in barrios located in cities with large Hispanic populations such as East Los Angeles, California ; Boyle Heights, California, Orange County, California, Anaheim, Baldwin Park, Chino, El Centro, El Monte, Fresno, Huron, Hemet, Indio, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Modesto, Monrovia, Moreno Valley, San Fernando Valley, National City, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Cincinnati, Compton, Downey, South Central, Inglewood, South Los Angeles, Oakland, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, Berkeley, East San Jose, Santa Ana, California and Temecula ; Alexandria, Virginia, Langley Park, Maryland, Wheaton, Maryland, Dallas, Houston, El Paso, and San Antonio, Texas ; north of Philadelphia, PA and Phoenix, Tucson, and Yuma, Arizona ; Denver ; Oklahoma City ; New York City ; Brentwood, New York ; Chicago ; Sterling, Illinois.

Bordering Arizona, Catron County affords the shortest route between Albuquerque and Phoenix or Tucson.

Duncan's television service is provided by an extensive network of translator stations that relay some of the larger Phoenix and Tucson stations as well as the basic cable networks.

Mesa is the third-largest city in Arizona, after Phoenix and Tucson, the 38th-largest city and largest suburb in the US.

Casa Grande ( Spanish for Large House ) is a city in Pinal County, approximately halfway between Phoenix and Tucson in the U. S. state of Arizona.

Coolidge is 56 miles southeast of Phoenix, and 69 miles northwest of Tucson.

Eloy is a city in Pinal County, Arizona, United States, about 50 miles northwest of Tucson and about 65 miles southeast of Phoenix.

In 1879, the Southern Pacific Railroad was in the process of building a railroad line from Yuma to Tucson, and a second railroad line was to be built from Maricopaville, wrapping around the western edge of South Mountain into Phoenix.

ISAW then selected the Phoenix area and on July 17, 1989 announced the exact site as a donated 300 acres of a 7, 500-acre cotton farm between Phoenix and Tucson once owned by movie star John Wayne, known as John Wayne's Red River Ranch, in Casa Grande, Arizona.

He opened a branch of the gym in Tucson, Arizona, and has started an association with the Dodge Theater in Phoenix to present boxing undercards once a month.

The metropolitan areas of Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, and El Paso hardly ever receive any snow at all, as they are strictly desert lands with mountains.

Hispanic Americans ( mostly Mexican Americans with large populations of Spanish Americans ) can be found in large numbers in every major city in the southwest, such as Phoenix ( 43 %), Tucson ( 41 %), Las Vegas ( 32 %), Reno ( 22 %), Denver ( 32 %), Colorado Springs ( 16 %), El Paso ( 80 %), Albuquerque ( 47 %), Provo ( 15. 2 %) and Salt Lake City ( 22 %).

The film was shot on location in Amado, Tucson, and Phoenix.

Most settled in urban barrios, including Barrio Libre and Pascua in Tucson, and Guadalupe and Scottsdale in the Phoenix area.

Eastwood portrays a down-and-out cop who falls in love with a prostitute he is assigned to escort from Las Vegas to Phoenix, to testify against the mafia.

Tourists wishing for a more vertical perspective can board helicopters and small airplanes in Las Vegas, Phoenix and Grand Canyon National Park Airport ( seven miles from the South Rim ) for canyon flyovers.

Prior to the merger, America West operated two hubs: its base location at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, Arizona and a secondary hub ( now defunct ) at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The airline's rapid growth continued in 1986, and the airline greatly expanded its fleet, primarily with Boeing 757s purchased from Northwest Airlines after Northwest bought out Republic Airlines, as well as a number of De Havilland Canada Dash 8 aircraft for local service from Phoenix and Las Vegas.

All express flights were branded as US Airways Express, and aircraft were no longer confined to operations out of their pre-merger hubs ( America West aircraft could fly from Philadelphia to destinations other than Phoenix and Las Vegas, for example ).

Serrano has won her last two world title defenses, both decisions, one in ten rounds in Las Vegas and another one, a six round win in Phoenix.

Since then ramp-meters have been systematically deployed in many urban areas including Los Angeles ; San Diego ; Sacramento ; the San Francisco Bay Area ; Fresno ; Seattle ; Denver ; Phoenix ; Las Vegas ; Salt Lake City ; Portland ; Minneapolis-St. Paul ; Milwaukee ; Columbus ; Cincinnati ; Houston ; Atlanta ; Miami ; Washington, DC ( only along Interstate 395 and Interstate 66 in Arlington County, Virginia ); Kansas City, Missouri ; and along the Queen Elizabeth Way in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Over a dozen other regional network affiliates originate from Las Vegas and Phoenix.

Kingman is located east of Bullhead City, Arizona, southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, about northwest of Phoenix, Arizona, and about northeast of Los Angeles, California.

The most severely burned, including some of the firefighters, were airlifted to hospitals in Las Vegas and Phoenix.

Along with the many awards bestowed upon the trilogy, particularly its final installment The Return of the King ( winner of eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture ), Astin received many award nominations for his own performance in Return of the King, taking home the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor and awards from the Las Vegas Film Critics Society, the Seattle Film Critics, the Utah Film Critics Association, and the Phoenix Film Critics Society.

In addition to its main offices in Hollywood, SAG also maintains local branches in several major US cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Nashville, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D. C.

Rapid City Regional Airport provides flights to the airline hub cities of Denver, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Dallas-Fort Worth, Las Vegas, Phoenix / Mesa and Chicago.

The Tri-Cities Airport is the only commercial airport in the Tri-Cities area and is served by several major airlines with direct flights to Seattle, Denver, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Phoenix / Mesa and San Francisco.

* Tri-Cities Airport, with commercial service to Seattle / Tacoma, Las Vegas, Mesa / Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Minneapolis / St.

Dakota Fanning won the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Performer, the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Youth in Film, the Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Youth Actress, the Satellite Special Achievement Award for Outstanding New Talent, and the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film-Young Actress Age Ten or Under.

Thus the basic spatial structure of the Southwest can be seen as focused on the largest metropolitan areas in each state such as Phoenix, Albuquerque, Denver, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, and El Paso.

The largest African American populations in the southwest can be found in Denver ( 10 %), Colorado Springs ( 7 %), Las Vegas ( 10 %), and Phoenix ( 5 %).

In 1963 Bonanza started nonstop F27s to Phoenix, and to Las Vegas in 1965 ; in 1967 Air California started Electras nonstop to San Francisco, 48 flights a week each way.

Hughes Airwest ( which previously operated as Air West ) also had a significant presence at BUR and flew Douglas DC-9-30 jets nonstop to Las Vegas, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Denver, and also operated onestop, direct service to Houston Hobby Airport.

This included United's service to Denver and US Airways ' services to Las Vegas and Phoenix, while other airlines dropped frequencies on routes.

Currently, the farthest mainline service by an aircraft is a Boeing 737 by Southwest Airlines daily flight to Las Vegas, previously this aircraft and airline serviced the longest domestic route from the airport to Phoenix, Arizona.