KINGMAN — From the moment he met a banged-up military Jeep in need of work, Jay Fraser knew he had something special. He purchased the vehicle, fixed it up and began off-roading with it.
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COOLIDGE — Every March Indian Skies RV & Mobile Home Park raises and donates money to organizations that have made a difference in the community.
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KINGMAN — From the moment he met a banged-up military Jeep in need of work, Jay Fraser knew he had something special. He purchased the vehicle, fixed it up and began off-roading with it.
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PHOENIX — Secretary of State Adrian Fontes wants Mark Finchem, the Republican Fontes defeated in last year’s election who formerly represented southern Pinal County, to pay nearly $75,000 in attorney’s fees for filing what a judge said was a “groundless” lawsuit to overturn the election.
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ELOY — The community will have an opportunity to meet with city and county officials and discuss important topics like mental health and drug prevention at a meeting at Eloy City Hall.
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MARICOPA — Dance performers shone like stars for a good cause during the second annual Dancing For Our Stars event.
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SIGNAL PEAK – The first victory came in walk-off fashion. The second was less dramatic but just as satisfying.
MARICOPA — There is renewed optimism for a Maricopa softball team that was denied a spot in the playoffs last year.
MARICOPA — The Sequoia Pathway Pumas have quietly developed a number of dedicated athletes who helped put the school on the map.
MARICOPA — Certain coaches simply have the Midas touch when it comes to turning programs around or in the case of the Maricopa boys volleyball team, it’s not about turning a program around but starting one up and being competitive from the get-go.
LAS VEGAS — Casa Grande boxer Jesus Ramos Jr. dominated another undefeated prospect, Joey Spencer, for seven rounds on Saturday before forcing Spencer’s corner to throw in the towel in front of a packed house of nearly 14,000 fans at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
SIGNAL PEAK – Consecutive victory No. 20 for the Central Arizona College baseball team did not come without its tense moments, even though the third-ranked Vaqueros took a 6-0 lead into the ninth inning of Saturday’s game against Phoenix at McSwain Field.
PHOENIX — Most museums ask guests not to touch the artifacts, but once a month, Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park encourages visitors to throw mud at a more than 800-year-old structure.
PHOENIX — The United States saw a rise in antisemitism in 2022 and Arizona continued to see more antisemitic vandalism and more incidents of racism than in some previous years, according to researchers.
PHOENIX — That bumper crop of flowers and grasses from all that rain are going to turn from beautiful to deadly this coming wildfire season.
PHOENIX — President Joe Biden designated two new national monuments, one connected to tribes in Arizona, as part of his administration’s commitment to protecting historical sites, honoring culturally significant areas and conserving outdoor spaces.
TUCSON AP) — There were multiple missed opportunities to investigate and possibly arrest an expelled University of Arizona graduate student who shot and killed a professor last year, according to an independent review.
PHOENIX — A vow by Arizona’s governor not to proceed with any executions amid lingering questions about the rights of death row prisoners appears to have paused a scheduled execution next week, even though it hasn’t officially been called off.
TEMPE — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored the tiebreaking goal with 7:55 remaining and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Arizona Coyotes 5-4 on Monday night.
SALT LAKE CITY — Devin Booker scored 24 points and Phoenix reserves sparked the decisive run for the Suns in a 117-103 win over the fading Utah Jazz on Monday night.
PHOENIX — Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst said he’s not requiring a first-round pick in a potential trade sending four-time MVP quarterback Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets…
TEMPE – The second week of spring practice for Arizona State football looked no different than the first for coach Kenny Dillingham as he continues to emphasize one thing: competition. For the…
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MARICOPA — Dance performers shone like stars for a good cause during the second annual Dancing For Our Stars event.
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PHOENIX — For over three decades, Pat McMahon brought joy to children across the greater Phoenix area on KPHO’s hit TV kid’s program, “The Wallace and Ladmo Show.”
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QUEEN CREEK — San Tan Valley resident Matt Ferris finished in second place in Caterpillar’s 2022-23 Global Operator Challenge.
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MARICOPA — Relay For Life of Maricopa looks forward to another year of fundraising for the American Cancer Society.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It was just a few weeks ago that California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the oil industry the second most powerful force on earth, trailing only Mother Nature in its ability to bend the elements — both physical and political — to its will.
LAS VEGAS — Human remains found last October on the shoreline of shrinking Lake Mead were from a North Las Vegas man who drowned in April 1974, authorities in Las Vegas said Tuesday.
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia officials say the city's water system will not be affected by a chemical spill into the Delaware River upstream last week.
PARK CITY, Utah — Skiers have likely noticed signs at mountain resorts across the country saying, “Know the code.” They refer to universal rules of conduct that apply to people who partake in inherently risky snow sports that involve navigating down crowded slopes, often at high speeds.
SAN DIEGO — The fire that killed at least 40 people at an immigration detention center in Mexico happened as Western hemisphere countries face pressure to address the extraordinary number of people fleeing their homes.
WASHINGTON — The Army is working to quickly pull together some new recruiting ads to air during the NCAA's Final Four basketball games this weekend, after being forced to yank commercials that featured actor Jonathan Majors, in the wake of his arrest last Saturday.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It was just a few weeks ago that California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the oil industry the second most powerful force on earth, trailing only Mother Nature in its ability to bend the elements — both physical and political — to its will.
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SAN DIEGO — The fire that killed at least 40 people at an immigration detention center in Mexico happened as Western hemisphere countries face pressure to address the extraordinary number of people fleeing their homes.
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WASHINGTON — The Army is working to quickly pull together some new recruiting ads to air during the NCAA's Final Four basketball games this weekend, after being forced to yank commercials that featured actor Jonathan Majors, in the wake of his arrest last Saturday.
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NEW YORK — Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Bret Baier are among the stars who both Fox News and the voting machine company suing it for defamation have signaled could testify if the case heads to trial next month.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. — She posted on social media about competing in a bike race, losing her pet hedgehog and visiting a butterfly garden with her grandmother but gave no sign of the anti-abortion views investigators say drove her to set fire to a Wyoming abortion clinic.
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SAO PAULO — Brazil's government on Tuesday reported the 700,000th death from COVID-19 in the South American nation, which has the second most victims of the virus after the United States.
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SAO PAULO — Brazil's government on Tuesday reported the 700,000th death from COVID-19 in the South American nation, which has the second most victims of the virus after the United States.
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico, starting a fire that killed at least 40 people, the president …
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Bending to a wave of mass protests, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed his contentious judicial overhaul plan Monday and said he wanted “to avoid civil war” by …
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QUITO, Ecuador — A massive landslide swept over an Andean community in central Ecuador, burying dozens of homes and killing at least 16 people as rescuers frantically searched for survivors, a…
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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — The U.N.’s atomic energy chief warned during a meeting Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the perilous situation at Europe’s largest nuclear …
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The announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin that he intends to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus appears to be another attempt to raise the stakes in the con…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The shooter who killed three students and three staff members at a Christian school in Nashville legally bought seven weapons in recent years and hid the guns from their parents before carrying out the attack by firing indiscriminately at victims and spraying gunfire throu…
LOS ANGELES — Whitney Houston’s brother remembers when his young sister listened to their mother during gospel rehearsals before she mimicked every tune that was sung.
United States Catholic bishops have issued guidelines that seek to stop Catholic hospitals from providing gender transition care, a move LGBTQ advocates say could harm the physical and emotional health of transgender people within the church.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It was just a few weeks ago that California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the oil industry the second most powerful force on earth, trailing only Mother Nature in its ability to bend the elements — both physical and political — to its will.
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PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia officials say the city's water system will not be affected by a chemical spill into the Delaware River upstream last week.
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NEW YORK — Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Bret Baier are among the stars who both Fox News and the voting machine company suing it for defamation have signaled could testify if the case heads to trial next month.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Monday approved the nation's first penalty for price gouging at the pump, voting to give regulators the power to punish oil companies for profiting from the type of gas price spikes that plagued the nation's most populous state last summer.
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WYNDMERE, N.D. — A Canadian Pacific train derailed in rural North Dakota Sunday night and spilled hazardous materials. But local authorities and the railroad said there is no threat to public safety.
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In the hours after some of Silicon Valley Bank’s biggest customers started pulling out their money, a WhatsApp group of startup founders who are immigrants of color ballooned to more than 1,000 members.
Ask any of the past or present Dancing for Our Stars participants and they will tell you that the first word that comes to mind when they think about the experience is "fun."
Though the winter months bring chillier temperatures to Pinal County, we are lucky enough to live in a climate that rarely gets snow and rarely see days where temperatures drop well below free…
In the town of Florence, history is on display every day. And at least once a year, during the historic home tour, the public is invited to see how people live amongst that history each day.
Our latest Pinal in Pictures celebrates fall events! From Halloween events like the Florence Fright Fest to Eloy's magical Glow Festival, we hope you enjoy the latest collection of photos subm…
With its five fun-filled days of spinning and twirling rides for thrill-seekers, an array of sweet and savory carnival foods, games, exhibits, entertainment and livestock competition, the Pina…
It's 2002 and multigenerational farmer Waylon Wuertz is set to graduate from the University of Arizona in agriculture tech management.
There's so much that Casa Grande has to offer, but it may not always be easy to determine just how much. Which is something the Greater Casa Grande Chamber of Commerce is keenly aware of.
A longstanding tradition of the Coolidge Chamber of Commerce is to gift small cotton bales to visiting guest speakers as a way of signifying that since the city’s founding in 1925, Coolidge ha…
When: Saturday, Jan. 28, 9 a.m.
CASA GRANDE — Few things are quite as fascinating as visiting artists in the space where they do most of their work. An artist's studio can tell visitors a lot about the artist, and even the a…
For two days every January, hundreds of vendors, exhibitors, mobile eateries, artists and others line the streets of historic downtown Casa Grande for the annual street fair and car show.
Every year, members of the community, local businesses and Central Arizona College alumni and staff gather at the Windmill Winery to support area youth as they enter a new phase in their educa…
Although the coronavirus is far from a thing of the past, our world is regaining the sense of normalcy we were once accustomed to.
Artists have been capturing beautiful vistas, meadows, ocean-side views, cityscapes and even desert landscapes for centuries.
In addition to my role as the president and CEO of Pinal Partnership, I’m excited to share news of a new organization. The Southern Arizona Sports, Tourism and Film Authority (SASTFA) was laun…
Headquarters Restaurant has been a part of the Maricopa community for nearly 70 years. And since opening, the restaurant's reputation for good food, service and as a meeting place for the comm…
Mayor Nancy Smith has "thoroughly enjoyed" her time as mayor thus far.
Even though it's a young city, Maricopa has many stories to tell.
Grace Gomez has been living in the same home for just under four decades. In that time, she's seen a lot around Maricopa change.