CASA GRANDE — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., told PinalCentral that drought resilience funding that she was able to secure as part of the Inflation Reduction Act will help address serious droug…
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CASA GRANDE — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., told PinalCentral that drought resilience funding that she was able to secure as part of the Inflation Reduction Act will help address serious drought issues that are affecting Pinal County.
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FLORENCE — Pinal County will not charge its cities and totwns for a share of the cost of holding the Aug. 2 primary election, meaning a loss of “a little over $100,000,” County Manager Leo Lew told the Board of Supervisors Wednesday.
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MARICOPA — A new shop is turning space at The Meeting Place Boutique into a unique place to find a good scent.
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FLORENCE — One of the three people charged in connection with a fatal stabbing near an Eloy truck stop in February 2020 was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday afternoon for second-degree murder and armed robbery after accepting a plea deal.
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CASA GRANDE — A close race for Casa Grande City Council leaves Anthony Edwards as the only newcomer and Matt Herman and Bob Huddleston gaining another term.
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COOLIDGE — In June, when PinalCentral spoke to Parks and Recreation Director Ricky LaPaglia about the acceptance rate and applications for the Youth Council, he said it was set to be the largest class in a long time.
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ELOY — Known for skydiving and its fair share of dust, those who travel into the heart of Eloy know that the city has another claim to fame: producing athletes who play on Sundays.
It’s finally August and that can only mean one thing — football season is just around the corner. Here in Pinal County all teams have started some form of practice or conditioning as the start of the season will be divided up with smaller schools starting on Aug. 19 while 4A-6A schools kick …
FLORENCE — Two auto racing siblings who grew up on short-course races were behind the wheel for the longest race in the country, more than 650 miles in the Nevada desert.
CASA GRANDE – The second season of PinalCentral’s Retro Rewind podcast capped off this week with the final guest being former Casa Grande Union football player Louie Ramirez.
MARICOPA — The Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Club will take center stage in May as the host site for the first National Golf Invitational.
CASA GRANDE — Pinal County may not get the same amount of sports exposure for its athletes when it comes to college recruiting, but the county is proof that you can find quality talent anywhere.
TEMPE — As neon lights replaced the setting sun one recent Friday evening, the city’s nightlife scene came alive along Mill Avenue, a popular spot near Arizona State University’s Tempe campus.
MEXICO CITY — They call him “El Jefe,” he is at least 12 years old and his crossing of the heavily guarded U.S.-Mexico border has sparked celebrations on both sides.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Human remains found at Lake Mead National Recreation Area last weekend may actually be from the same set of bones discovered 12 days earlier, authorities said Tuesday.
FLAGSTAFF — Two men vying for the Navajo Nation presidency announced their running mates Monday, choosing candidates from the New Mexico portion of the reservation to broaden their appeal.
TUCSON — Tech Launch Arizona, the University of Arizona’s commercialization arm, recorded 303 novel inventions between July 1, 2021, and June 30 — the most invention disclosures registered for a single year in the university’s history — up from 274 in the previous year.
LANSING, Mich. — Doug Logan, the CEO of the Florida-based firm hired by the Arizona Senate to conduct the partisan “audit” of the 2020 Maricopa County election, is under investigation for allegedly illegally obtaining Michigan voting machines and breaking into them.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant was one of the most photogenic sports figures in Los Angeles, and images of him seen by millions around the world — smiling in victory, grimacing in agony — keep…
A couple of days before Serena Williams claimed the 22nd of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles at Wimbledon in 2016, she was asked what she makes of it when people refer to her as one of history…
PHOENIX (AP) — Rodolfo Castro got the call-up and dropped a call in his return to the big leagues.
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The long-awaited DLC for Outriders has arrived and it not only provides a first-rate new chapter for the game as well as a redemption for the game which had a rough launch and was targeted by segments of the gaming population.
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LONDON — British children’s author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, whose creations include “The Snowman” and “Fungus the Bogeyman,” has died. He was 88.
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NEW YORK — Olivia Newton-John, the Grammy-winning superstar who reigned on pop, country, adult contemporary and dance charts with such hits as “Physical” and “You’re the One That I Want” and won countless hearts as everyone’s favorite Sandy in the blockbuster film version of “Grease,” has di…
OMAHA, Neb. — The director of the FBI had strong words Wednesday for supporters of former President Donald Trump who have been using violent rhetoric in the wake of his agency’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss. — U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Harold Duane Poole was waiting with his semiautomatic service rifle — and an explanation — when deputies arrived at his sprawling wooded property on a warm spring night last year and found a bullet-riddled body near the driveway.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A fear of attacks that had rippled through Muslim communities nationwide after the fatal shootings of four men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, gave way to shock and sadness when it turned out the suspect in the killings was himself a Muslim.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Two anti-government extremists sought to spark a “second American revolution” by kidnapping Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday, as the government tried for a second time to get convictions in an alleged plot to shock the country into chao…
Jada Riley thought she had beaten homelessness.
DALLAS — A Southwest Airlines flight attendant suffered a compression fracture to a vertebra in her upper back during a hard landing last month in California, according to federal safety investigators.
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WASHINGTON — After a moment when hopes dimmed that the United States could become an international leader on climate change, legislation that Congress is poised to approve could rejuvenate the country’s reputation and bolster its efforts to push other nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissio…
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, whose elder son Beau died of cancer years after deploying to Iraq, signed legislation on Wednesday expanding federal health care services for millions of veterans who served at military bases where toxic smoke billowed from huge “burn pits.”
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NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination as he testified under oath Wednesday in the New York attorney general’s long-running civil investigation into his business dealings.
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WASHINGTON — An Iranian operative has been charged in a plot to murder former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton in presumed retaliation for a U.S. airstrike that killed the country’s most powerful general, offering $300,000 to “eliminate” the Trump administration official, the Justi…
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At its current pace, Medicare’s Hospital Insurance trust fund will run out of money in 2028, according to the June 2022 Medicare trustees report. That’s a two-year extension on the previous estimate, but experts say it’s still not good news, and the government needs to stop twiddling its thu…
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NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump showed up Wednesday for questioning under oath in New York's civil investigation into his business practices. But he quickly made clear he wouldn't be answering.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s air force said Wednesday that nine Russian warplanes were destroyed in a deadly string of explosions at an air base in Crimea that appeared to be the result of a Ukra…
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BAGHDAD — An influential Shiite cleric in Iraq whose supporters earlier this month stormed the parliament in Baghdad and have since held a sit-in outside the building, stepped up his demands W…
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LONDON (AP) — Children ages 1-9 in London were made eligible for booster doses of a polio vaccine Wednesday after British health authorities reported finding evidence the virus has spread in m…
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POXINDEJE, Mexico — A painter in orange overalls touches up the image of a hand holding a rifle while an artist perched on scaffolding painstakingly places bits of colorful ceramic in a mosaic…
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TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reshuffled his Cabinet on Wednesday in an apparent bid to distance his administration from the conservative Unification Church over its ties to th…
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BEIJING (AP) — Liu Qian, job-hunting with a new master’s degree, said two employers interviewed her and then said the positions had been eliminated. Others asked her to take lower pay.
ROME — A Vatican cardinal marked the 80th anniversary Tuesday of the gas chamber killing of the Jewish-born Catholic convert Edith Stein by celebrating a Mass near the former Auschwitz death camp and telling the story of his own family’s Jewish origins and their fate under the Nazis.
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Click and gape at the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel ceiling up close. Click again and join thousands of pilgrims praying and circling around the cube-shaped Kaaba at Islam’s most sacred site. Or strap on a headset and enter the holy city of Jerusalem.
CASA GRANDE — Rickey Robinson came to Pinal County with the dream of playing music and enjoying his days in retirement while living in Maricopa.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Falling prices for gas, airline tickets and clothes gave Americans a little bit of relief last month, though overall inflation is still running at close to its highest level in four decades.
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NEW YORK — Wall Street roared Wednesday after inflation cooled more than expected last month, sparking speculation the Federal Reserve may not have to be as aggressive about hiking interest rates as feared.
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As concerns about social media's harmful effects on teens continue to rise, platforms from Snapchat to TikTok to Instagram are bolting on new features they say will make their services safer and more age appropriate. But the changes rarely address the elephant in the the room — the algorithm…
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia, moving forward with their exit from the country after it sent troops into Ukraine.
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Amid rising inflation, interest rates and recession worries, money is getting tighter for many folks — and probably for you. Yet there may be charitable organizations you want to support, friends or family asking for financial help and things you want to buy for yourself. It’s possible to do…
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DETROIT (AP) — A tax credit of up to $7,500 could be used to defray the cost of an electric vehicle under the Inflation Reduction Act now moving toward final approval in Congress.
CASA GRANDE — With the onset of the long, lazy days of summer, it's tempting for Pinal County residents to retreat to their air-conditioned homes, avoiding the balmy outdoors and Arizona's cha…
With many folks seeking to regain a semblance of "normal" following two years of restrictions caused by the pandemic, you couldn’t find a more fitting place for an experience of old school Ame…
If you've ever driven to Coolidge by way of State Route 87 or driven past the city on your way into the Valley, you may have passed by the massive structure under the protection of an equally …
Once again, we asked and local readers and photographers delivered. A special thank you to Ann Loyd and Lisa Manifold for their submissions of these incredible nature scenes snapped in differe…
To most kids, the word "summer" may as well be synonymous with fun.
Located only minutes away from the hustle and bustle of Florence Boulevard, the Casa Grande Mountain trails offer local residents several hiking options complemented with picturesque and spect…
One thing I enjoy about being a part of a magazine like Pinal Ways is that it gives me the opportunity to look at each season through a new lens.
When the summer temperatures ramp up in Arizona, residents look for fun ways to spend their time while also beating the heat. Tucked away in Eloy, Skydive Arizona presents not only a fun activ…
It’s naturally a little cooler, plus there’s often a nice breeze blowing though the mountainous terrain — just one reason visitors are drawn to Arizona Zipline Adventures.
Guests can pretend they're cruising down the mighty Mississippi almost 200 years ago. But on a desert lake, they'll enjoy views that a young Mark Twain never had.
Laser tag and the arcade at Ak-Chin Circle Entertainment Center have reopened, offering new, fun options for the community to enjoy with more to come.
There are few places in Pinal County that are quite as serene as Boyce Thompson Arboretum.
There's something about a few hours in a place where animals live and play that can turn your whole day around.
Whether it's the soft green grass, the shade of the sprawling trees, the playgrounds or a chance to watch ducks frolicking in a pond, the municipal and county parks throughout the area are pop…
It may not be the ideal time of year, but there are people enjoying the desert's beauty these days at Lost Dutchman State Park.
A new school year is just on the horizon.
In March, the Maricopa Pantry lost nearly everything to a massive fire that consumed multiple semi trailers of food and a storage container.
As I mentioned in my previous article, Pinal Partnership’s committees are proving to be the go-to forum where some of our best subject matter experts explore a full range of possibilities to g…
It’s just before 5 p.m. on Monday, April 4. Maricopa commuters are making their way home from another long workday. About halfway between the Phoenix metropolis and the city of Maricopa, traff…
Maricopa Mayor Christian Price shocked the city in April when he announced that he would be stepping down from his position at the end of June to become the president and CEO of Maricopa Econo…
The start of a new school year was always something I, equal-parts, dreaded and looked forward to as a kid. I dreaded it because the end of those two months off marked the end of meeting up wi…
There's no denying Maricopa is a growing city.
The brand new Desert Sunrise High School opens on Thursday, and staff members say they're eager to meet the new students and welcome them back to a new year at a new school. Copacetic intervie…
Visit Mercantile Maricopa and one of the first things you might notice is that the shelves are lined with an assortment of collectables, antiques and memorabilia.
With the 2022 election season in full swing, it's always a good idea to get acquainted with local and state candidates. We spoke with four of the five candidates running for seats in the Arizo…
Ron Harrison composed hundreds of songs back in the day, but now he plays piano for himself and those who stop by to listen.