SUPERIOR - Resolution Copper has awarded more than $185,000 in grants to five area school districts for the upcoming school year.
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FLORENCE — Pinal County Recorder Virginia Ross and Elections Director Michele Forney are encouraging voters who have questions about the election to call their offices.
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Editor’s Note: Though we do our best to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date, directory of the restaurants currently serving customers in our area, this list reflects the establishments open for business at the time of publication. Please contact these businesses directly for information rega…
WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated eight Arizona counties as primary natural disaster areas this week.
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CASA GRANDE — The Arizona Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will review an Arizona Court of Appeals decision involving the Pinal Regional Transportation Authority tax.
FLORENCE — Pinal County is asking state utility regulators to immediately provide interim solutions that will allow development to proceed around the Pecan and Section 11 facilities, which are both Johnson Utilities wastewater plants in San Tan Valley.
PHOENIX — Jim and Dorothy Karam celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on Sept. 10.
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FLORENCE — Pinal County will receive a $300,000 federal grant through the “Arizona Vote Safe Program” to help combat the pandemic for the 2020 election cycle, following the Board of Supervisors’ approval of an agreement with the state Wednesday.
FLORENCE — An August testing blitz for COVID-19 in Pinal County correctional facilities could result in a spike in new cases, which would hold the county back as it works to reopen schools and businesses, officials said.
FLORENCE — Pinal County officials believe they’re at least $14 million — and maybe as much as $54 million — short of U.S. CARES Act funds they should have received from the state for COVID-19 relief.
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CASA GRANDE — With a record-breaking hot summer, there are several hydration stations across Pinal County offering water and heat refuge to those who need it.
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PHOENIX — Pinal County residents are eligible to apply for a vacancy on the Arizona Game and Fish Commission.
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PHOENIX — Pinal County met the recommended benchmarks for both in-person school learning and reopening some businesses, state health officials announced Thursday morning.
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FLORENCE — The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office’s new Citizen Posse is not your great-granddad’s posse.
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PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey has appointed Rebecca Padilla as Pinal County clerk of the Superior Court.
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CASA GRANDE — Pinal County taxpayers hoping for better roads through the Pinal Regional Transportation Authority sales tax will have to wait.
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SAN MANUEL — A San Manuel man is facing charges of aggravated assault after an argument turned physical.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: PinalCentral is going through each football position group to list five players to watch in Pinal County this season. This is the seventh and final installment in the series. Keep in mind that some of these players may play multiple positions and don’t always fit neatly into o…
FLORENCE — Pinal County will receive a $2.6 million state grant for testing, case investigation and contact tracing related to COVID-19.
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SUPERIOR — A six-week project to repave a scenic stretch of U.S. 60 in northern Pinal County is nearly complete, the Arizona Department of Transportation says.
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APACHE JUNCTION (AP) — Divers have recovered the body of one of two people missing after a boat capsized on Apache Lake north of Apache Junction.
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ELOY — Earlier this month the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the final day to responded to the 2020 census was moved up to Sept. 30, one month earlier than previously announced.
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SUPERIOR — Resolution Copper is donating up to $780,000 this year to assist organizations throughout the broader community during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
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APACHE JUNCTION (AP) — Divers were searching Monday for two people missing after a boat capsized on Apache Lake.
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QUEEN VALLEY -- This winter-haven community mostly for retirees in upper northern Pinal County certainly has a flavour for British royalty.
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SUPERIOR — The Arizona Auditor General’s Office has found the towns of Mammoth and Superior have not followed guidelines to bring them back into compliance with state laws on the use of Pinal County Transportation Excise Tax monies and may have inappropriately borrowed state Highway User Rev…
FLORENCE — Hundreds of Pinal County residents received the wrong early ballot, and up to 15 Kearny-area voters received the wrong ballot at the polls, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors was told.
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FLORENCE — Pinal County’s primary property tax rate has been cut by four cents in each of the last three years and is down almost 25 cents in 10 years, but it is still high compared to other counties, the Board of Supervisors was told Friday morning.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: PinalCentral is going through each football position group to list five players to watch in Pinal County this season. This is the third installment in the series. Keep in mind that some of these players may play multiple positions and don’t always fit neatly into one position group.
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FLORENCE — More than 2,600 people have expressed an interest in joining Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb’s new “citizens posse,” he told the Board of Supervisors on Wednesday.
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It's primary election night, and PinalCentral will be updating results for the races relevant to Pinal County throughout the night, and however many days after it takes for all the votes to be counted.
FLORENCE — Sixty-four businesses in unincorporated Pinal County received checks totaling $529,071 to help cover their losses related to the pandemic and the state’s recent stay-at-home order, and the Pinal County Board of Supervisors expressed an interest in extending and possibly expanding …
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FLORENCE — The Pinal County Board of Supervisors wants to hear more details and clarification regarding Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb’s new “citizens posse” at a future meeting.
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FLORENCE — The hotly contested race for Pinal County assessor was not close on election night, with incumbent Doug Wolf winning by 7,243 votes by about 10 p.m.
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CASA GRANDE — Pinal County ranks at the top of a list of places where home values have risen the most in the state, according to a recent study.
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QUEEN VALLEY — A Mesa man has been arrested and charged with shooting a fellow passenger in a moving van in Pinal County, then pushing him out.
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FLORENCE — Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb is forming a new “citizens posse” that he might eventually call on to help in a major emergency.
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SUPERIOR — This is a good old-fashioned whodunit, Arizona Department of Transportation-style.
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PHOENIX — The chairman of the House Ethics Committee wants to drop further investigation into the conduct of Rep. David Cook.
GLOBE — One June day in 1964, Gerald Gault and a teenage friend made a bad decision. They made an obscene phone call to Ora Cook, Gault’s neighbor. She called the police, and both boys were arrested and taken to a juvenile detention facility in Gila County.
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FLORENCE — The challenges of being part of a global pandemic haven’t stalled progress in Pinal County, Board of Supervisors Chairman Anthony Smith, R-Maricopa, said Wednesday.
FLORENCE — Despite receiving comments in favor of face masks that outnumbered opponents more than 3-to-1, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors declined to mandate masks at last week’s meeting.
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PHOENIX – As President Donald Trump was hailing the pace of border wall construction Tuesday, Tohono O’odham Nation Chairman Ned Norris Jr. was bemoaning it as a project that continues “to destroy … sacred sites.”
CASA GRANDE — Pinal County native Tiffany Shedd wants to represent rural Arizona in Congress.
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CASA GRANDE — Following his announcement that he had tested positive for COVID-19, the whereabouts of Sheriff Mark Lamb or who else might have been exposed to the virus through his public appearances has been unclear.
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FLORENCE — Residents in unincorporated Pinal County will be "highly encouraged" to wear face coverings in public to slow the spread of COVID-19 in a resolution pending before the Pinal County Board of Supervisors.
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COOLIDGE — Some cities are firm on their stance about enforcing face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic, while others are still exploring the issue, according to the Pinal Partnership's virtual mayors' update on Friday.
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FLORENCE — Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb has tested positive for the coronavirus.
FLORENCE — The Pinal County Board of Supervisors approved agreements with two state universities Wednesday related to the future Arizona Technology Corridor through Pinal County.
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PHOENIX — A report released Friday by the House Ethics Committee accuses Rep. David Cook of having an undisclosed relationship with a lobbyist, one that the investigators said is romantic.
