FLORENCE — Scorching heat in central Arizona has been swapped for rain, lightning and flooding due to monsoon thunderstorms.
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MARICOPA — Maricopa community members have waited with baited breath to hear the results of an infrastructure bill currently in the Senate that could provide long-awaited relief from the headache of State Route 347.
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MARICOPA — The driver arrested for allegedly causing a fatal head-on collision on Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway in June is facing extradition to New Mexico for aggravated driving under the influence, according to Pinal County Superior Court records.
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FLORENCE — Scorching heat in central Arizona has been swapped for rain, lightning and flooding due to monsoon thunderstorms.
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CASA GRANDE — After hearing from members of the public, the Casa Grande Union High School District Governing Board formally approved its in-person learning plan document during a special meeting on Friday afternoon.
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FLORENCE — A woman being held in the Pinal County Adult Detention Center faces a couple of aggravated assault charges after allegedly attacking two corrections officers.
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SIGNAL PEAK — Central Arizona College announced this week that it is providing free tuition to Pinal County residents for the fall 2021 and spring 2022 semesters. The decision was made possible by federal American Rescue Plan Act funding the school received earlier this year.
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CASA GRANDE — It’s been a busy summer for some former Pinal County baseball players as they’ve participated in various collegiate summer leagues across the country.
SAN TAN VALLEY — At the age of 16, Combs High School junior Hailey Linnastruth is the top female shooter in her school-based club trap shooting conference.
COOLIDGE — Conner Goade began his boxing career by losing his first seven matches in a row.
ELOY — Hunter Ogle was a part of the Santa Cruz Valley varsity football team for all four years of high school. With improvements to his game coming every year, Ogle broke out in a big way in both his junior and senior seasons, and quickly became one of the best high school running backs in …
CASA GRANDE — Registration is open for the Mountain Bike Race Team, which represents schools around the Casa Grande area.
SIGNAL PEAK – Central Arizona College pitcher Mat Olsen nearly had the opportunity to live out his dream last year in the 2020 Major League Baseball draft.
PHOENIX — An organization that pushes for lower taxes and less government regulation is trying to deny Arizonans the option to decide whether they want to approve or veto the $1.9 billion in tax cuts enacted last month by the Republican-controlled legislature.
PHOENIX (AP) — A former suburban Phoenix school district superintendent accepted money in exchange for awarding building contracts to certain vendors, according to an Arizona Auditor General report.
PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey is doubling down on his refusal to reimpose mitigation measures to help slow the increasing spread of COVID-19.
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona is reporting 1,479 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, the highest daily case number in over a week.
PHOENIX -- Prosecutors need provide only a credible explanation about striking the only African-Americans from a prospective jury hearing charges against a Black woman to comply with constitutional requirements and have the guilty verdict upheld, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
PHOENIX -- The North American Monsoon, an annual phenomenon in the southwestern United States, began to unleash rounds of showers and thunderstorms across interior parts of the region in mid-June. This month, the heavy rainfall has turned deadly, with some locations being flooded multiple ti…
The NHL draft turned Michigan maize and blue Friday night. And there’s a Hughes sibling reunion set to happen in New Jersey.
BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — Adam Hadwin missed the weekend cuts in his last three tournaments, continuing a disappointing stretch as he dropped to 120th in the FedEx Cup standings.
Catchers' signals — and stealing them — could become a relic if an experimental electronic device is successful.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Time is finally on their side.
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ELOY — The Corazon de Latinos Unidos has announced that the Fiestas Patrias will return this year after a one-year hiatus.
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In his latest film, Val Kilmer gets an unusual screen credit for a bona fide Hollywood movie star: cinematographer.
BLY, Ore. — The nation’s largest wildfire raged through southern Oregon on Friday, but crews were scaling back some night operations as hard work and weaker winds helped reduce the spread of flames even as wildfires continued to threaten homes in neighboring California.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As drought- and wind-driven wildfires have become more dangerous across the American West in recent years, firefighters have tried to become smarter in how they prepare.
MENDOCINO, Calif. — A Northern California coastal town popular with tourists is running low on water after two years of little rainfall during a drought in the U.S. West, forcing residents and business owners to truck in water from elsewhere.
MASTIC, N.Y. (AP) — An escaped bull has eluded capture for several days on Long Island despite searchers employing a helicopter and night-vision equipment along with attempts to lure the roaming animal with grain and a cow.
Most Americans who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 say they are unlikely to get the shots and doubt they would work against the aggressive delta variant despite evidence they do, according to a new poll that underscores the challenges facing public health officials amid soaring infe…
ATLANTA — Federal workplace safety officials are proposing nearly $1 million in fines against four companies following a liquid nitrogen leak in January that killed six workers at a northeast Georgia poultry processing plant.
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WASHINGTON — Organizations representing long-term care facilities on Friday urged lawmakers working on a bipartisan infrastructure plan to avoid dipping into COVID-relief funds to help pay for the roughly $600 billion in new spending sought for the public works buildout.
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WASHINGTON — Republican politicians are under increasing pressure to speak out to persuade COVID-19 vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves and take the shots as a new, more contagious variant sends caseloads soaring. But after months of ignoring — and, in some cases, stoking — misinformat…
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PHOENIX (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a former Arizona legislator who was expelled by the state House in 2018 for sexual harassment.
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DENVER — Confronting the historic drought that has a firm grip on the American West requires a heavy federal infrastructure investment to protect existing water supplies but also will depend on efforts at all levels of government to reduce demand by promoting water efficiency and recycling, …
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BILLINGS, Mont. — A U.S. Senate panel deadlocked Thursday on President Joe Biden’s pick to oversee vast government-owned lands in the West, as Democrats stood united behind a nominee whose credibility was assailed by Republicans over her links to a 1989 environmental sabotage case.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans rejected an effort Wednesday to begin debate on the big infrastructure deal that a bipartisan group of senators brokered with President Joe Biden, but pressure was mounting as supporters insisted they just needed more time before another vote possibly next week.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The costs of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic have forced Mexican archaeologists to re-bury a unusual find that combined colonial and pre-Hispanic features.
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ISLAMABAD — The Taliban say they don’t want to monopolize power, but they insist there won’t be peace in Afghanistan until there is a new negotiated government in Kabul and President Ashraf Gh…
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CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti — The body of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was returned to his hometown Friday for a private funeral amid heavy security following violent protests and fears of pol…
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BEIJING (AP) — The death toll from catastrophic flooding in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou has risen to 51, state media reported Friday.
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NEW DELHI — Landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains hit parts of western India, killing at least 47 people, officials said Friday. More than 1,000 people trapped by floodwaters were rescued.
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MEXICO CITY — The mainly female volunteers who fan out across Mexico to hunt for the bodies of murdered relatives are themselves increasingly being killed, putting to the test the government’s…
GREENE, Iowa (AP) — Earlier this month, Mike and Jamie Reicherts were dealt a bit of a blow by the Charles City Council when its five members had a 3-2 split vote against approving a plan the couple from Greene had to put four mules on property near the northern edge of town.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — People in Utah are gathering to celebrate the state's history and recognize early Mormon pioneers who trekked west in search of religious freedom.
The discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada have prompted renewed calls for a reckoning over the traumatic legacy of similar schools in the United States — and in particular by the churches that operated many of them.
CASA GRANDE — It’s 6:30 in the morning on a June day when the temperature will eventually hit 116 in Casa Grande. Jesus and Abel Ramos lace up their shoes before running around the track at Carr McNatt Park, showing just part of what it takes to be an elite professional boxer.
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NEW YORK — Stocks rallied to records on Wall Street Friday, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 35,000 level for the first time, as the market continued to roar back from its short-lived swoon at the start of the week.
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RENO, Nev. — Environmental lawyers are urging a California appellate court to overturn a pair of district court rulings that handed significant victories to the Squaw Valley ski resort as it moves forward with expansion plans critics say will dramatically increase traffic in the area and har…
CASA GRANDE — Last year, the former Sacaton Mine northwest of Casa Grande was renamed Cactus Mine in advance of a possible reactivation. Now the parent company, Elim Mining Incorporated, is getting a rebrand of its own.
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PHOENIX (AP) — One of Arizona's biggest hospital systems renewed a call Thursday for people to get vaccinated, citing an increase in seriously ill COVID-19 patients in just a few weeks.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — Daimler AG's luxury car brand Mercedes-Benz says it is stepping up its transition to electric cars, doubling the share of sales planned by 2025 and sketching out a market scenario in which new car sales would “in essence” be fully electric by the end of the decade.
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CASA GRANDE — Lucid Motors is “achingly close” to rolling out its luxury electric vehicle, the Lucid Air, according to Public Policy Lead Daniel Witt.
MARICOPA — Workplaces around the world looked a lot different last year.
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
MARICOPA — Since childhood, Theresa Judkins has been passionate about music, singing and playing various instruments.
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…
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.
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…
MARICOPA — More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the closure of churches, worshipers have been returning to Maricopa area churches.
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…
When Joe Jackson finally makes his way onto a court in Japan, he will be representing Maricopa on quite the international stage.