FLORENCE — A retired Pinal County Sheriff’s Office K9 has died.

FLORENCE-- Rodeo time in Florence is fast approaching. However, the Parada isn’t Florence’s only claim to rodeo fame.

FLORENCE — In Arizona, whiskey’s for drinking and water’s for fighting: including target practice.

FLORENCE — Pinal County personnel are clearing a road to an isolated 10-acre tract south of Arizona Farms Road for a future sheriff’s shooting range, which neighbors fear will cause property values to plummet in the surrounding pristine desert and open range land north of Florence.

FLORENCE — Florence Copper has received its draft, or preliminary, permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the last permit the mine needs to ramp up to full-scale commercial operations.

FLORENCE -- The Pinal County Board of Supervisors recognized several Pinal County employees Wednesday for their years of service.

FLORENCE — The town is encouraging a contractor building nearly 20,000 feet of fencing around the future Poston Butte Preserve, also known as “F” Mountain, to hire local help.

FLORENCE — The town is encouraging a contractor building nearly 20,000 feet of fencing around the future Poston Butte Preserve, also known as “F” Mountain, to hire local help.

FLORENCE — A San Tan Valley man asked the Pinal County Board of Supervisors to reconsider a Sheriff’s Office shooting range north of Florence.

FLORENCE – While town officials and staff continue to weigh the future of the Charles Whitlow Rodeo Grounds, the Town Council agreed Monday to hold additional events there.

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.

SUPERIOR — A Superior man is facing aggravated assault charges after he allegedly tangled with two police officers in the middle of U.S. 60.

FLORENCE — A Florence man is facing charges after he allegedly threw rocks through the windows and doors of a church because of a bird.

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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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar was facing criticism after he tweeted a video that included altered animation showing him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.

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 — At least one person was injured in a three-vehicle collision Monday morning at a Florence intersection designated for future roundabouts.

GLOBE -- State Rep. David Cook, chairman of the House Forest and Wildfire Management Ad Hoc Committee, said the panel will hold its next hearing in Globe.

FLORENCE — A future entertainment center, to be built on a vacant lot downtown, received design review approval Oct. 26 from the Florence Historic District Advisory Commission.

FLORENCE — The town now has more than 30,000 acre-feet of water storage credits “and that’s a very exciting thing,” Town Manager Brent Billingsley told the Town Council Monday. “Florence is in an excellent position for water sustainability going forward.”

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.

TEMPE — Two projects with ties to Florence were recipients of the Governor’s Heritage Preservation Honor Awards at the Arizona Historic Preservation Conference on Friday, Oct. 29 in Tempe.

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.

PHOENIX — An incarcerated woman who testified at a trial Monday over the quality of health care in Arizona prisons tearfully recalled her frustration about the length of time it took to be diagnosed and treated for multiple sclerosis. Kendall Johnson detailed her repeated attempts to get hel…

PHOENIX — A lawsuit challenging the quality of health care for more than 27,000 people incarcerated in Arizona’s prisons is headed to trial Monday after a 6-year-old settlement resolving the case was thrown out by a judge who concluded the state showed little interest in making many of the i…

FLORENCE — Property owners near where a proposed Pinal County Sheriff’s Office shooting range would be located are objecting.

FLORENCE — Pinal County Economic Development Director Tim Kanavel, who died on Feb. 9, has been honored by the Arizona Association of Economic Development with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

FLORENCE — Two months after they voted to reject it, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors will reconsider on Nov. 3 accepting a $3.3 million federal grant to bring COVID vaccines to underserved populations.

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.