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FLORENCE — The town’s water customers in the coming months will be able to log in to their new WaterSmart accounts for detailed information, including checking for leaks.
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CASA GRANDE — Olga Cathemer has lived through two world wars, two worldwide pandemics, the Great Recession and dozens of other historic events.
CASA GRANDE — New maps released by the Independent Redistricting Commission show drastic changes to legislative and congressional boundaries within Pinal County, but all indications are it is too soon in the process to draw major conclusions.
FLORENCE — The jury in a Pinal County double murder trial hasn’t reached a verdict yet after three days of deliberating.
PICACHO PEAK — A two-vehicle, wrong-way fatal collision closed the eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 near Picacho Peak State Park Wednesday afternoon.
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CASA GRANDE – One team will fall from the ranks of the undefeated when Maricopa hosts Casa Grande Union Friday night.
CASA GRANDE — Vista Grande opened its season by doing something that had only been done twice in school history, it started the season off with a win after demolishing Tucson Cholla 63-12.
CASA GRANDE — After being swept by one of the top teams in the 4A Conference, American Leadership Academy — Queen Creek, last week; Vista Grande was looking for a win against Goodyear Desert Edge on Tuesday.
COOLIDGE — The Bears are looking to get back to their winning ways after running into a juggernaut in southern Arizona on Friday.
COOLIDGE — Silence is golden, but gloves are silver.
SAN TAN VALLEY — The Poston Butte volleyball team has set a lofty goal for themselves of only losing five games this season.
PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix woman has been arrested on suspicion of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her two young daughters, police said Wednesday.
PHOENIX (AP) — Human rights groups are calling on the Biden administration to consider the effects that climate change-fueled heat has on migrants when designing the government's border policies.
PHOENIX (AP) — Police are investigating the discovery of two dead bodies inside a car.
PHOENIX — Arizonans are poisoning themselves with medication meant for horses and cattle in their belief it will prevent or fight COVID-19.
FLAGSTAFF — Crews searching for a missing man at Grand Canyon National Park made an unexpected discovery this summer.
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona on Wednesday reported 2,432 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases and 29 deaths, increasing the state’s totals to 1,055.919 cases and 19,333 deaths.
TEMPE — Arizona Cardinals linebacker Chandler Jones insisted he wasn’t seeing dollar signs dance through his brain after he made his third sack, fourth sack and then fifth during a spectacular…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Relationships have been Donte Williams' stock in trade, his ability to connect with recruits and their families making him one of the most sought-after assistant coaches in …
LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers are chasing the San Francisco Giants in the NL West. They caught their rival in one big way by becoming the second team in the majors to clinch a postseason berth.
ELOY — After a year of quarantine and shutdowns, the Fiestas Patrias is scheduled to return Sept. 17-18. The Fiestas Patrias is put on in Eloy every year by Corazon De Latinos Unidos, an organization dedicated to preserving and promoting Hispanic culture through education and celebration.
WINDOW ROCK (AP) — Niagara Rockbridge has been crowned as the new Miss Navajo Nation. The 22-year-old is from Pinon.
NEW YORK — Comic Norm Macdonald, a former “Saturday Night Live” writer and performer who was “Weekend Update” host during the 1990s, has died.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Three of the Ohio prison guards involved in the February death of inmate Michael McDaniel were previously disciplined for excessive use of force or not intervening when inmates were in danger or guards used unjustified force, records show.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed the Biden administration's selective criteria on who should be deported to remain in effect, rejecting one of Texas' challenges to the president's immigration policies.
CUSTER CITY, S.D. — Looking down a hillside dotted with large stumps and nearly devoid of trees, a pair of retired U.S. Forest Service employees lamented logging policies they helped craft to deal with two harbingers of climate change -- pine beetles and wildfires.
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — You can call it a saturation effort: The city of Henderson and Las Vegas Valley Water District say they're joining forces for enforcement patrols to identify water wasters in suburban southern Nevada.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — An Idaho man who served more than four years in federal custody for his part in an armed 2014 standoff against federal agents near states’ rights figure Cliven Bundy’s Nevada ranch is suing the U.S. government and prosecutors for damages.
ATLANTA — At least 18 of the 20 gorillas at Atlanta's zoo have now tested positive for COVID-19, an outbreak that began just days before the zoo had hoped to obtain a veterinary vaccine for the primates, officials said Tuesday.
PHOENIX – The mistrust in Arizona’s Nov. 3 presidential election and the months-long audit it spawned is quickly spreading across the country, with politically driven efforts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan and Texas, the executive director of Secure Democracy said Wednesday.
PHOENIX (AP) — The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday selected a sitting member of the Arizona House to replace a state senator who resigned after being charged with child molestation.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Republicans in Pennsylvania’s state Senate prepared Wednesday to test how far they can go in pursuing what the GOP calls a “forensic investigation” of last year’s presidential election, as Democrats accused them of helping perpetuate the “big lie” of baseless claims that fo…
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden planned meetings Wednesday with a pair of moderate Democratic senators whose objections to the size of a proposed, huge package of social and environment initiatives have thrown serious obstacles in its path.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As tens of thousands of Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban arrive in the U.S., a handful of former Trump administration officials are working to turn Republicans against them.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Despite warnings the race would be close, California Gov. Gavin Newsom decisively defeated efforts to kick him out of office, a win the Democrat cast as an endorsement of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his party's liberal values.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan man who was killed in a U.S. drone strike last month was an enthusiastic and beloved longtime employee at an American humanitarian organization, his colleagues …
TAPACHULA, Mexico — Caribe Dorvil wakes up at 3 a.m. each day to prepare food to sell in a small street market with dozens of other Haitian migrants in this southern Mexican city.
PARIS — The key defendant in the 2015 Paris attacks trial said Wednesday that the coordinated killings were retaliation for French airstrikes on the Islamic State group, calling the deaths of …
MOSCOW — Alyona Popova’s campaign rhetoric is blunt: Unless she is elected to parliament, there won’t be much hope for a law against domestic violence in Russia.
MATEHUALA, Mexico (AP) — Police in northern Mexico found 38 people, including 22 Haitians and Cubans, who were abducted from a hotel early Tuesday, authorities.
MIAMI — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is seeking to add to a new member to his team negotiating in Mexico with his political opponents — an ally jailed in Cape Verde awaiting extradition…
VISALIA, Calif. — It’s billed as the largest Catholic parish in the United States and it’s being constructed about 200 miles north of Los Angeles, in what’s often referred to “as the heart of California’s dairy industry.”
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli life came to a standstill on Wednesday as Jews marked the beginning of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and the most solemn point on their calendar, at sundown.
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis said Wednesday he didn’t understand why people refuse to take COVID-19 vaccines, saying “humanity has a history of friendship with vaccines,” and that serene discussion about the shots was necessary to help them.
CASA GRANDE — After more than two decades with Sun Life Family Health Center, including 15 years as the CEO, Travis Robinette is retiring.
SALEM, Ore. — After humble beginnings as a pushcart operation in an Oregon town and growing into a company with hundreds of drive-thru coffee shops, Dutch Bros Coffee launched an initial public offering Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange.
LOS ANGELES — Public health officials in Los Angeles County will begin requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for patrons and workers at indoor bars, wineries, breweries and nightclubs next month.
PHOENIX -- The Arizona Supreme Court is going to give Attorney General Mark Brnovich one more chance to try to sue the Board of Regents over what he contends is an illegal deal to build a hotel and conference center.
PHOENIX — Workers at the bottom of the Arizona wage scale appear to be in line for a pay hike of $26 a week.
PHHOENIX (AP) — The Salt River Project's board of directors was sharply divided as it approved a plan to more than double the size of a natural gas-burning power plant in Coolidge to provide additional electricity for metro Phoenix during peak-use periods.
PHOENIX – A local restaurateur or entrepreneur could breathe a second life into a historic firehouse just south of Margaret T. Hance Park and the Burton Barr Central Library.
Maricopa is a city of dreams and ambitions. That’s how it started, of course, with a group of developers staring at miles and miles of farmland and dreaming of a time when they would all be fi…
MARICOPA — As students in Maricopa prepare for the new school year, many are looking forward to a return to in-person education. For some students though, the transition to online school has b…
MARICOPA — Workplaces around the world looked a lot different last year.
In the spring of 2020, as the pandemic was sending people home and shutting down the economy, Kooline Plumbing Heating & Air President Mohammed Nazeem received some bad news. His general m…
MARICOPA — More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the closure of churches, worshipers have been returning to Maricopa area churches.
It seemed just like any night, sitting in my car and waiting for my turn in line. It could have been a drive-thru at a fast food restaurant based on the whole vibe. But finally I drove under t…
Kids heading back to school are not only starting out a new school year, they’re starting a “new normal” — a post-pandemic school system. Students last year were faced with obstacles most have…
A public health crisis is hard enough for any community to get through, but it might be a little easier if there’s a hospital in town. While all can hope that there isn’t another pandemic for …
Last year was an unforgettable demonstration of resilience, flexibility, perseverance, and patience. We have been transformed as a community and emerge with talents and skills we never expected.
MARICOPA — It’s been more than a year since the applause and cheers of crowds could be heard in The Events Center at Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino, but with a slate of concerts on the schedule, fans…
You might have seen the phrase hung up on walls at a diner or in a well-stocked house: “Home is where the food is.” The problem in Maricopa was that the food itself didn’t have a home, a perma…
MARICOPA — Americans have heard the numbers. Thirty-three million COVID-19 cases in the United States alone, and 600,000 people dead from the virus in the last year. Those 600,000 represent gr…
When Joe Jackson finally makes his way onto a court in Japan, he will be representing Maricopa on quite the international stage.
You are riding your bike along Whimsical Drive here in beautiful Maricopa admiring the Estrellas and thinking about that slice of rhubarb pie you are going to enjoy after your exercise when yo…
Can you imagine a high school taught at a movie theater? Or online? Due to varieties of events, our first year was taught at a movie theater (scholars loved it!); our second year was a COVID o…