Payson’s 20-year struggle to secure a “forever” water supply stored in the C.C. Cragin Reservoir looks more and more like a stroke of genius as the state’s 20-year mega-drought continues and the reservoirs on the Colorado River dwindle.
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CASA GRANDE — After the coldest March morning low since 2002, Pinal County and central Arizona will be under a blowing dust advisory with a slight chance of rain Wednesday before a warmup this weekend.
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PHOENIX — The run of a farther-son duo of Arizona judges with Pinal County ties is coming to an end.
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COOLIDGE — As federal agencies have weighed in recently, several Pinal County leaders expressed their support for Resolution Copper’s controversial mining project slated for Oak Flat, in the north-central portion of Pinal County. But while local business leaders believe the mining project wo…
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SUPERIOR — The Biden administration is pulling back an environmental review that had cleared the way for a parcel of federal land held sacred by Apaches to be turned over for a massive copper mine in northern Pinal County.
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FLORENCE — Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb has launched a new nonprofit, Protect America Now, with six other sheriffs from around the country.
WASHINGTON – Republican senators tried to pin down Rep. Deb Haaland at a hearing Tuesday on her nomination to be the next Interior secretary, pushing her on fossil fuels and the job losses they said would come from President Joe Biden’s proposed energy policies.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona's super-low $240 maximum weekly unemployment benefit would increase to $320 by mid-summer and employers would have a small increase in their premiums under a new proposal unveiled Tuesday by Republican Senate President Karen Fann.
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PHOENIX — Central Arizona College has its best chance ever of finally being able to offer four-year degrees to its students.
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SUPERIOR — Area residents don’t need to travel abroad for an Australian-style “walkabout.”
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FLORENCE — Vaccine shipments destined for Pinal County last week have been recalled by the maker because of possible contamination due to delays caused by severe winter weather, health officials say.
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FLORENCE — Pinal County has seen 55,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered, Interim County Manager Leo Lew told the Board of Supervisors Wednesday. He noted this is 10,000 more than the county’s number of confirmed cases.
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SUPERIOR — Motorists on U.S. 60 between Miami and Superior will encounter intermittent lane restrictions and delays starting Wednesday for the Pinto Creek Bridge replacement project.
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WINKELMAN -- Motorists who cross the Gila River Bridge on State Route 77 in Winkelman may encounter early morning delays this week.
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PHOENIX — State lawmakers are moving to ensure that all eggs sold in Arizona come from cage-free hens, despite an area legislator saying the legislation appeases a “terrorist organization.”
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FLORENCE — Persons 65 and older have now been added to the 1B-1 early vaccination group in Pinal County, health officials said.
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SUPERIOR — A federal judge has rejected a request from a group of Apaches to keep the U.S. Forest Service from transferring a parcel of land in Pinal County to a copper mining company.
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GLOBE (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting three people at a bar in Globe in 2018 has been sentenced to life in prison.
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FLORENCE — The Pinal County Board of Supervisors is moving forward on plans to redraw the districts each represents.
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SAN CARLOS — As COVID-19 spread in the San Carlos Apache Tribe, the Apache Gold Hotel was closed so it could serve as a shelter for tribal members in quarantine, sometimes as many as 400.
PHOENIX — County Attorney Kent Volkmer says there have been a couple of instances in which individuals charged with dangerous crimes in Pinal County were released into the community because they were deemed mentally incompetent.
Brief history of community — The Apaches are descendants of the Athabascan family who migrated to the Southwest in the 10th century. Over time, many bands of Apache were relocated to the San Carlos reservation from their traditional homelands, which once extended through Arizona and New Mexi…
SUPERIOR – A Superior woman is facing charges after allegedly attacking her boyfriend.
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PHOENIX — Members of the group Apache Stronghold told a federal district judge, in sometimes tearful testimony Feb. 3, that a proposed Pinal County copper mine at Oak Flat would destroy a “holy place” for Native Americans and needs to be stopped.
PHOENIX — The Arizona House of Representatives Thursday passed a bill harnessing smart water management to drive economic development and housing availability in Pinal County.
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CASA GRANDE — By taking the job fair experience and transforming it into a mobile application, Achieve Pinal hopes to make it easier for job seekers to find the perfect gig.
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PHOENIX — State lawmakers took the first steps Wednesday to reversing decades of tough-on-crime policies.
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PHOENIX — Apache tribal members made emotional pleas Wednesday in federal court to try to prevent what could become the largest copper mine operation in the U.S.
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PHOENIX — COVID-19 infections in Arizona appeared to be leveling off last week when officials confirmed that a variant of the virus, first found in the United Kingdom, had been found in Pinal and Maricopa counties.
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FLORENCE — It’s exciting to see Pinal County transition from an economy reliant on new homes to one based on manufacturing 21st-century products, Board of Supervisors Chairman Steve Miller said at Friday’s Pinal Partnership meeting.
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ORACLE — The justice of the peace for eastern Pinal County's Copper Corridor has resigned.
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SUPERIOR – Two lost hikers spent a cold night on Picketpost Mountain near Superior before they were picked up by members of the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office’s Search and Rescue Posse.
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DUDLEYVILLE – A 67-year-old Dudleyville man is facing charges after he allegedly pulled a gun on his neighbors.
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FLORENCE — Pharmacies at Fry's and Safeway grocery stores in Pinal County will soon be administering COVID-19 vaccinations to the general public, health officials said.
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CASA GRANDE — A Pinal County Superior Court judge who was pulled over on New Year’s Eve by a Casa Grande Police officer is seeking treatment for high blood pressure.
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SIGNAL PEAK — Evelyn Casuga and Jerry Walker were sworn in as the newest members of the Central Arizona College Governing Board on Tuesday. Casuga was immediately elected to become vice president and David Odiorne president, taking over from board member Dan Miller.
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SUPERIOR — Resolution Copper has completed a $75 million restoration and reclamation project of 475 acres impacted by close to a century of the old Magma Mine’s operations.
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TUCSON -- When Sirena Rana is out hiking the more than 800 miles of the Arizona National Scenic Trail, some of the portions that run through Pinal County are among her favorites.
FLORENCE — If the federal government makes any further CARES Act payments to local governments for expenses related to COVID-19, Pinal County is asking for fairness.
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FLORENCE — Just about everyone wants the new COVID-19 vaccine, or at least that’s how it looks in Pinal County. Public Health staff had received over 4,000 calls in the last couple of days, Director Tascha Spears said.
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FLORENCE — The Pinal County Board of Supervisors voted to send a letter to state health officials to ask for more COVID-19 vaccine in Pinal County.
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FLORENCE – A Superior woman who pled guilty to second-degree murder and child abuse in the death of her two children has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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ELEVEN MILE CORNER — A Pinal County spring break tradition is again feeling the impact of COVID-19.
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FLORENCE — Health officials say that educators, public safety workers and those 75 and older should be able to get inoculated against COVID-19 at Pinal County pharmacies in a little more than a week.
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FLORENCE — Pinal County Assessor Douglas Wolf has announced that qualified widows, widowers and those 100% disabled can now apply for a property tax exemption for 2021.
SIGNAL PEAK — Central Arizona College has announced the following students graduated in December. The listing is organized alphabetically by campus and includes the certificate and/or degree the student received.
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PHOENIX — Several Arizona Republican officials defended Wednesday’s violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, sought to blame political enemies for the pro-Trump mob’s criminal activity or spread conspiracy theories deflecting responsibility away from the president’s supporters.
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FLORENCE — Kaye Persinger of Marion, Ohio, — who was known as Kaye Dickson when she ran for Pinal County Sheriff five years ago — said she’ll miss Reyes.
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FLORENCE — Pinal County and its community partners are vaccinating people against COVID-19 as fast as they can, although shipments of vaccine are falling as sharply as infections are rising, the Board of Supervisors was told Wednesday.
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WINKELMAN — It’s not always clear to drivers why crews need to stop traffic in a work zone, but there was no mistaking what was happening for nine days this month on State Route 77 in Winkelman.
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SUPERIOR — Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park and Wallace Desert Garden has welcomed a new horticulturist to its ranks.