FLORENCE — The Board of Supervisors congratulated the Pinal County Treasurer’s Office for winning the 2021 Arizona Association of Counties Summit Award.

FLORENCE — A Pinal County supervisor wants to know if low pay in the Community Development department is the reason for understaffing, which is causing a backlog in projects being approved.

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…

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

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 — 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.

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.

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 — 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 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.

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…

SUPERIOR — Motorists who use U.S. 60 between Superior and Miami should plan for a full closure of the highway from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, while crews remove the old Pinto Creek Bridge.

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…

FLORENCE — The Pinal County Attorney’s Office will host two shredding events for area residents.

SUPERIOR – While motorists who routinely travel between Superior and the Globe-Miami area may not know what’s involved with maintaining and repairing the only highway between the communities, they’ve come to know even small projects can mean big travel delays.

SUPERIOR — A new U.S. 60 bridge over Pinto Creek has opened to traffic, replacing a 72-year-old structure on the only route between Superior and the Globe-Miami area.

FLORENCE — Pinal County officials are looking to add 35 communications towers to expand broadband to rural areas within the county.

PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has appointed Lacey Gard to fill a seat on the Pinal County Superior Court recently vacated by the retirement of Judge Stephen McCarville.

WASHINGTON — Proposals targeting specific areas for conservation in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and federal waters off Louisiana’s coast made their way into the gigantic budget reconciliation bill that Democrats are moving through Congress.

SUPERIOR — Motorists who use U.S. 60 between Superior and Miami should plan for a full closure of the highway between Sept. 12 and Sept. 17 while crews build connections and transition traffic onto the new Pinto Creek Bridge.