USDA OKs drought disaster for some AZ counties

A federal agency is backing a request from Gov. Jan Brewer to declare a drought disaster that will help ranchers and farmers.

Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon region is unwise

I’m not an environmentalist and I don’t understand all of the environmental issues, but I do understand that we get 5 million people coming to the Grand Canyon every year. Tourism is not compatible with mining or with the mining trucks transporting uranium to be processed in Utah, and generally running the risk of despoiling this national treasure.

Gosar will switch districts, run in CD4

U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar confirmed rumors that have been swirling around in political circles for months, announcing on Saturday that he will move to Prescott and seek reelection in Arizona’s... […]

Elections officials grapple with new Native American language rule

Coconino County election officials have provided translators at the polls for Navajo speakers. They have done the same for Hopi voters.

But Yuma has them stumped.

Taking the funds out of HURF

County officials tie highway projects to economic development prospects

House passes bill to clear up confusion over control of Cragin Dam

The House on Monday approved a bill aimed at clearing up six years of what one Arizona lawmaker called a “ridiculous jurisdictional battle” over control of the C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir Project in Coconino County.

Jail population a crisis level in Coconino County

Managers of the Coconino County Jail say the inmate population has reached "crisis" levels for the third time in three years.

In some rural areas, medical marijuana challenges views of community

As a volunteer police officer in this northwestern Arizona city, Harley Pettit saw young people get in trouble for everything from drugs and alcohol to vandalism. In a small community with not a lot to do, he said, the last thing young people need is another way to get into trouble.

He’s worried that’s exactly what medical marijuana will give them.

Tea party T-shirts OK at polls under settlement

The Goldwater Institute says it has settled a federal lawsuit it filed against Coconino County on behalf of a woman who was not allowed to wear a tea party t-shirt into her polling place.

Federal government authorizes Ariz disaster funds

The federal government has authorized disaster assistance funds to help repair damage caused by flash floods this summer in Arizona.

Arizona moving to use conservation money before vote

Arizona parks officials and local governments in the Phoenix and Flagstaff areas are moving to spend up to $52 million of land conservation money that legislators envisioned being used instead to help keep the budget in the black.

Mold-specific regulations non-existent

From the state level all the way down to the municipal level, regulations dealing specifically with mold simply don’t exist.