MARICOPA — An increase in fire activity in Pinal County has prompted the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management to warn residents and put in place additional safety measures.
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MARICOPA — An increase in fire activity in Pinal County has prompted the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management to warn residents and put in place additional safety measures.
FLORENCE — Florence Hospital's parent company announced it had filed for bankruptcy protection and that its hospitals were for sale, but it did not expect any changes in day-to-day operations.
MARICOPA — At the May 10 board meeting, the Maricopa Unified School District honored its employees who will be retiring when this school year comes to an end.
CASA GRANDE — Phil Bond posthumously received the Eugene G. Sander Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Arizona College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences.
CASA GRANDE — Work on the new Casa Grande Auto Mall is well underway, and come late spring, it will be the new home for part of the Jerry Seiner Casa Grande dealerships.
CASA GRANDE — Western Pinal County water providers will be recipients of over $10 million in federal funding that was announced this week by Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema.
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CASA GRANDE — There really isn’t a more exciting and long standing rivalry in Pinal County like the one between Coolidge and Florence.
COOLIDGE — Robles Boxing & Fitness is presenting its summer Cooltown Throwdown 11 event and a chance to support local small businesses.
Pinal County was well represented at the divisional championship track and field meets over the weekend in Glendale and Mesa.
SIGNAL PEAK — Free passes were a killer for the Central Arizona College baseball team in the opening round of the Region 1 tournament.
SIGNAL PEAK — As playoff games go, this one was a beaut.
SIGNAL PEAK — Losses don’t get much uglier than the 14-6 defeat inflicted upon the Central Arizona College baseball team by South Mountain in Thursday’s opener of their best-of-three playoff series at McSwain Field.
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK (AP) — The body of a New Mexico man has been recovered from the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, authorities said Monday.
WASHINGTON — It’s a “scary” trend that border county officials say is getting scarier: Mexican cartels paying teenagers from throughout the country to smuggle illegal migrants across the state as “load car” drivers.
PHOENIX — Jade Lara was five months pregnant in January 2022 when she arrived at a group home in San Tan Valley with the promise of daily classes and group therapy to help her with sobriety. However, when she arrived, she was met with a lack of assistance and care and provided with only one …
PHOENIX — A Republican-backed plan to convince voters to duplicate federal immigration enforcement by letting police officers arrest migrants and Arizona judges deport them could end up costing the state at least $325 million every year.
PAGE — Conservation groups are calling for changes to the management of Lake Powell, the nation’s second largest reservoir, after the discovery of damaged plumbing within the dam that holds it back.
WASHINGTON — A political action committee that helps Republicans get elected to Congress is doing the unusual — spending more than $450,000 to defeat a GOP incumbent. That incumbent, conservative two-term Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., voted to remove former Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker last fall.
PHOENIX — Phoenix Mercury All-Star center Brittney Griner has a fractured toe in her left foot, which will cause her to miss an undisclosed amount of time.
With the spring transfer portal window closed, a look at six college football teams that cleaned up in various ways.
Paul Maurice is in his second season coaching the Florida Panthers, trying to guide them to a second consecutive appearance in the Stanley Cup Final. It was pointed out to him not long ago tha…
DARLINGTON, S.C. — There were so many special parts of Brad Keselowski’s first NASCAR victory in three years, it was difficult for him to say what meant the most.
ELOY — As one of the longest-running events for the organization, the Eloy Chamber of Commerce is planning some unconventional aspects for the 30th annual chamber golf tournament to make the event stand out from previous years.
ELOY — In previous years, the Cinco de Mayo holiday was predominantly an afterthought within the Eloy community. However, with the city celebrating its third annual event this past weekend, Cinco de Mayo is another opportunity for the community to come together.
CASA GRANDE — A pair of local residents got a nice surprise from the scratcher tickets they purchased in Casa Grande stores, as they were among several in the state to take home big prizes in recent weeks.
MARICOPA — The Maricopa Arts Center will accept submissions now through May 11 for a public art display at Maricopa Agricultural Center.
NEW YORK — Donald Trump was intimately involved with all aspects of a scheme to stifle stories about sex that threatened to torpedo his 2016 campaign, his former lawyer said Monday in matter-of-fact testimony that went to the heart of the former president’s hush money trial.
BALTIMORE — Crews set off a chain of carefully placed explosives Monday to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, and with a boom and a splash, the mangled steel trusses came crashing down into the river below.
NEW YORK — Sen Bob Menendez, a Democrat, went on trial in Manhattan federal court Monday, accused of accepting bribes of gold and cash to use his influence to deliver favors that would help three New Jersey businessmen.
WASHINGTON — A political action committee that helps Republicans get elected to Congress is doing the unusual — spending more than $450,000 to defeat a GOP incumbent. That incumbent, conservative two-term Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., voted to remove former Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker last fall.
WASHINGTON — Federal energy regulators on Monday approved a long-awaited rule to make it easier to transmit renewable energy such as wind and solar power to the electric grid — a key part of President Joe Biden’s goal to eliminate carbon emissions economy-wide by 2050.
MADISON, Wis. — Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted health warnings across the Upper Midwest and Montana for the second year in a row.
PHOENIX — A Republican-backed plan to convince voters to duplicate federal immigration enforcement by letting police officers arrest migrants and Arizona judges deport them could end up costing the state at least $325 million every year.
PHOENIX — Got an opinion on abortion?
PHOENIX -- Arizona may have no pause in abortions, at least through 15 weeks of pregnancy.
PHOENIX — Republican David Cook’s name will be on the primary ballot for the Arizona Senate’s Legislative District 7, the Arizona Supreme Court decided on Thursday.
WASHINGTON — A political action committee that helps Republicans get elected to Congress is doing the unusual — spending more than $450,000 to defeat a GOP incumbent. That incumbent, conservative two-term Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., voted to remove former Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker last fall.
NEW YORK — It was 7 a.m. on a recent Friday when Wang Gang, a 36-year-old Chinese immigrant, jostled for a day job in New York City’s Flushing neighborhood.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops were locked in intense battles with Ukrainian soldiers around the embattled town of Vovchansk in northeast Ukraine on Monday, pushing ahead with a ground of…
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Aid workers struggled Monday to distribute dwindling food and other supplies to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by what Israel says is a limited milita…
MADISON, Wis. — Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted health warnings across the Upper Midwest and Montana for the second year in a row.
COPENHAGEN — Ever since humans have journeyed to space, their meals there have proved to be, well, nothing to write home about.
DJENNE, Mali — Thousands of Malians carrying buckets and jugs of mud joined the annual replastering of the world's largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains the integrity of the Great Mosque of Djenne in the center of the country.
ROME — Forty-nine employees of the Vatican Museums have filed a class-action complaint with the Vatican administration demanding better seniority, leave and overtime benefits in an unusual, public challenge to Pope Francis’ governance.
The birthday of the historical Buddha or Shakyamuni Buddha, known as Vesak in several countries, celebrates the birth of the child who became Prince Siddhartha around the end of the 4th century B.C. This is a holy occasion for all Buddhists, but is celebrated on different dates depending on …
CASA GRANDE — Robert Miguel may be the chairman of the Ak-Chin Indian Community, but in his mind, he will always be “Bob,” the same approachable guy whom kids would get excited about seeing roll up to the local convenience store because they knew he would emerge from the store with a few ext…
NEW YORK — A fraud trail began Monday for the founder of a hedge fund that cost leading global investment banks and brokerages billions of dollars when it collapsed.
The man at the center of the pandemic meme stock craze appeared online for the first time in three years, sending the prices of thee quirky and volatile shares sharply higher Monday.
Melinda French Gates resigns as Gates Foundation co-chair, 3 years after her divorce from Bill Gates
NEW YORK — Melinda French Gates will step down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the nonprofit she and her ex-husband Bill Gates founded and built into one of the world's largest philanthropic organizations over the past 20 years.
SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI's latest update to its artificial intelligence model can mimic human cadences in its verbal responses and can even try to detect people's moods.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes drifted to a mixed finish Monday, hanging near their record heights.
LIVONIA, Mich. — A tiny, low-priced electric car called the Seagull has American automakers and politicians trembling.
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