GOLD CANYON — A Chino Valley man who was allegedly driving the wrong way and caused an accident that closed U.S. 60 in May near Gold Canyon has been indicted on several charges.

FLORENCE — At the 40-acre Desert Well Site run by Arizona Water Company, water is pumped out of the ground, treated for naturally occurring arsenic and then sped along the water main 26 miles east and over 1,000 feet in elevation to the town of Superior, where it’s chilled from roughly 140 d…

WASHINGTON – House Democrats continued to press for action Friday against Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Prescott, over a violent cartoon video that appears to show him attacking the president and killing a liberal House Democrat.

APACHE JUNCTION – An Apache Junction man’s alleged attempts to pass off the drugs in his driver’s side door as a joke played on him by a friend did not sit well with a Pinal County Sheriff’s deputy.

FLORENCE — After its Nov. 3 meeting became bogged down in confusion over rules, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors is considering an expanded set of those for conducting meetings.

FLORENCE — The Pinal County Board of Supervisors is considering a new written policy for invocations, or prayers, at the beginning of its regular meetings.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten House Democrats, led by the co-chairs of the Democratic Women's Caucus, said Wednesday that they will introduce a House resolution to censure Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., for tweeting a video that included altered animation showing him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Corte…

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SUPERIOR — The kids care about the future of mining. But they also care about Native American rights. These kinds of contradictions and concerns lie in the background of Superior, a small town nestled in the mountains at the start of Pinal County’s Copper Corridor.

GOLD CANYON — A survey of Gold Canyon residents on the future of the northern Pinal County community garnered more than 1,200 responses, county officials say.

FLORENCE — Two months after narrowly voting to reject it, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors, sitting as the Pinal Public Health District board, voted to accept a $3.3 million grant to help bring COVID vaccines to the county’s underserved populations.

PHOENIX — A number of incumbent lawmakers find themselves facing suddenly unfavorable electoral prospects under the proposed legislative map drawn by the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission.

FLORENCE — Pinal County deputies will receive raises to make their pay more competitive with neighboring jurisdictions following the Board of Supervisors’ approval of a budget amendment of $684,353 Wednesday.

FLORENCE – Some Arizona counties continue to grapple with administering COVID-19 vaccines equitably, even as cases spiked across the state in recent months and vaccination rates still lag in rural communities and among some people of color.

PHOENIX — The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration made a major drug bust in Phoenix last week, hauling in 142 pounds of methamphetamine, 60,000 fentanyl pills and 10.5 pounds of cocaine.

FLORENCE — Two people died recently in Pinal County from West Nile virus, the county environmental health department reported Wednesday.

SUPERIOR — There is no copper being mined from Resolution Copper’s East Plant, several miles beyond the town of Superior. But within Shaft Nos. 9 and 10, work continues in maintaining the vast underground network of pipes, corridors and control systems necessary to keep the mine in ready sha…

APACHE JUNCTION — An Apache Junction man was arrested after he allegedly refused to stop interfering with paramedics’ attempts to help a patient.

SUPERIOR — As rivers and reservoirs dry up throughout the Southwest, Arizona is now months away from mandated cutbacks of Colorado River supplies. As sustaining groundwater becomes vital for the state, particularly in agriculture, potential projects with high water consumption have come unde…

PHOENIX -- Republican Congressman Paul Gosar tweeted out a video meme last week, which he later deleted, that has roots in neo-Nazi and white nationalist culture.