MARICOPA — The city has once again teamed up with Casa Grande artist Mauriel Morejon, along with Global Water, to bring another mural to Maricopa’s landscape.
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MARICOPA — The city has once again teamed up with Casa Grande artist Mauriel Morejon, along with Global Water, to bring another mural to Maricopa’s landscape.
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COOLIDGE — The annual Wreaths Across America dinner will help raise funds for a good cause to support veterans.
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MESA — Pinal County Sheriff's deputies were called to a home off Gantzel and Empire roads in San Tan Valley on March 29 around 1:10 a.m. after a woman reported 28-year-old Edward Figueroa broke in through a window and started shooting at her and her boyfriend.
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MARICOPA — Leona Carlyle-Kakar "was" the Ak-Chin Indian Community, Chairman Robert Miguel said.
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FLORENCE — A new multigenerational or “multi-gen” center will need to serve an area far outside the town limits to be financially viable, consultants told the Town Council Monday.
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COOLIDGE — A state leadership conference opened doors of opportunity for Coolidge High School students.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — The softball regular season ends on Monday and many teams are still fighting for every inch in hopes of either sneaking into the postseason or improving their rankings.
QUEEN CREEK — A battle between two of Pinal County’s best softball teams resulted in a slugfest, as both the American Leadership Academy-Ironwood Warriors and Coolidge Bears looked to improve their rankings before the postseason.
CASA GRANDE — Vista Grande celebrated six more of its senior athletes during a college signing ceremony on Wednesday morning.
FLORENCE — In baseball, all it takes is a spark to fire up a team to victory.
MARICOPA — It’s not enough that Maricopa has to play Surprise Shadow Ridge twice during the regular season since both programs are in the 6A West Valley, regardless of the sport it seems that the two teams always matchup in the postseason as well which has built up a little rivalry.
SIGNAL PEAK — A fourth consecutive doubleheader split kept the Central Arizona College baseball team from clinching the home-field advantage in the opening round of the upcoming Region 1 tournament.
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FLORENCE — The sun has set on another weekend full of country music in the Florence desert. As Country Thunder 2024 came to a close, some attendees said that despite a more “low-key” lineup, they still had plenty of fun at the four-day festival.
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FLORENCE — Already having a big moment on the Main Stage at Country Thunder, Avery Anna had a surprise audience visit from a former teacher who traveled down to watch her perform at Country Thunder.
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FLORENCE — Country Thunder, with its blowing dust and lack of showers, doesn’t tend to be a place where people look better as the weekend goes along. But thanks to a barber-for-the-stars and a local salon owner, fans and musicians alike can stay looking sharp.
PHOENIX — A small blue dog with an Australian accent has captured the hearts of people across the world.
PHOENIX — A jury in southern Arizona was ordered to resume deliberation Friday in the trial of a rancher charged with fatally shooting an unarmed migrant on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border.
WASHINGTON — One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a …
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has secured a place on the ballot in the battleground state of Michigan, state officials confirmed Thursday, elevating his potential to affect the November election.
NOGALES, Ariz. — Closing arguments are expected Thursday in the trial of an Arizona rancher charged with fatally shooting an unarmed migrant on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border last year.
PHOENIX — Democrats in the Arizona Senate cleared a path to bring a proposed repeal of the state’s near-total ban on abortions to a vote after the state’s highest court concluded the law can be enforced and the state House blocked efforts to undo the long-dormant statute.
SAN FRANCISCO — Logan Webb retired 19 straight batters on his way to seven smooth innings and the San Francisco Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-0 Thursday night to open a four-game series.
The NHL team moving from Arizona to Salt Lake City will be known as Utah, at least initially, until a long-term name is determined.
TEMPE — The Arizona Cardinals' rebuilding project is about to hit one of its most important moments.
Coyotes officially leaving Arizona for Salt Lake City following approval of sale to Utah Jazz owners
TEMPE — The Arizona Coyotes are officially headed to Salt Lake City.
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FLORENCE — The sun has set on another weekend full of country music in the Florence desert. As Country Thunder 2024 came to a close, some attendees said that despite a more “low-key” lineup, they still had plenty of fun at the four-day festival.
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FLORENCE — Already having a big moment on the Main Stage at Country Thunder, Avery Anna had a surprise audience visit from a former teacher who traveled down to watch her perform at Country Thunder.
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FLORENCE — Country Thunder, with its blowing dust and lack of showers, doesn’t tend to be a place where people look better as the weekend goes along. But thanks to a barber-for-the-stars and a local salon owner, fans and musicians alike can stay looking sharp.
WASHINGTON — With rare bipartisan momentum, the House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support as a robust coalition of lawmakers helped it clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend. Friday’s vote produ…
WASHINGTON — One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a …
MIAMI — The Biden administration sent about 50 Haitians back to their country on Thursday, authorities said, marking the first deportation flight in several months to the Caribbean nation struggling with surging gang violence.
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration on Thursday finalized a new rule for public land management that's meant to put conservation on more equal footing with oil drilling, grazing and other extractive industries on vast government-owned properties.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has secured a place on the ballot in the battleground state of Michigan, state officials confirmed Thursday, elevating his potential to affect the November election.
Workers installing a light pole in Missouri cut into a fiber line, knocking out 911 service for emergency agencies in Nebraska, Nevada and South Dakota, an official with the company that operates the fiber line said Thursday.
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WASHINGTON — One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a …
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MALE, Maldives — A court in the Maldives on Thursday threw out former President Abdulla Yameen's 11-year prison sentence on money laundering and bribery charges and ordered a retrial.
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MIAMI — The Biden administration sent about 50 Haitians back to their country on Thursday, authorities said, marking the first deportation flight in several months to the Caribbean nation struggling with surging gang violence.
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BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration on Thursday finalized a new rule for public land management that's meant to put conservation on more equal footing with oil drilling, grazing and other extractive industries on vast government-owned properties.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A U.S. congressional committee released confidential Brazilian court orders to suspend accounts on the social media platform X, offering a glimpse into decisions that have spurred complaints of alleged censorship from the company and its billionaire owner Elon Musk.
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NEW YORK — The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial ordered the media on Thursday not to report on where potential jurors have worked and to be careful about revealing information about those who will sit in judgment of the former president.
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WASHINGTON — With rare bipartisan momentum, the House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support as a robust coalition of …
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MALE, Maldives — A court in the Maldives on Thursday threw out former President Abdulla Yameen's 11-year prison sentence on money laundering and bribery charges and ordered a retrial.
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Once a fringe Indian ideology, Hindu nationalism is now mainstream, thanks to Modi's decade in power
AHMEDABAD, India — Hindu nationalism, once a fringe ideology in India, is now mainstream. Nobody has done more to advance this cause than Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one of India’s most belo…
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BRASILIA, Brazil — Indigenous representatives from 35 countries issued a declaration Thursday criticizing the fact that they are too rarely consulted about mining that takes place on or near t…
Once a fringe Indian ideology, Hindu nationalism is now mainstream, thanks to Modi's decade in power
AHMEDABAD, India — Hindu nationalism, once a fringe ideology in India, is now mainstream. Nobody has done more to advance this cause than Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one of India’s most beloved and polarizing political leaders.
CASA GRANDE — A historic downtown office building in Casa Grande has a new purpose.
SYDNEY — A 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics during a Sydney church service might have “anger management and behavioral issues” and a “short fuse” but had shown no signs of being radicalized, a community leader said Thursday, after authorities declared the stabbing a …
CASA GRANDE, Art has been a significant part of Regis Sommers’s life for as long as she can remember.
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BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration on Thursday finalized a new rule for public land management that's meant to put conservation on more equal footing with oil drilling, grazing and other extractive industries on vast government-owned properties.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A U.S. congressional committee released confidential Brazilian court orders to suspend accounts on the social media platform X, offering a glimpse into decisions that have spurred complaints of alleged censorship from the company and its billionaire owner Elon Musk.
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BRASILIA, Brazil — Indigenous representatives from 35 countries issued a declaration Thursday criticizing the fact that they are too rarely consulted about mining that takes place on or near their lands, an issue that has become more acute with increased demand for minerals needed in the tra…
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Google has fired 28 employees in the aftermath of protests over technology that the internet company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, further escalating tensions surrounding a hot-button deal.
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Workers installing a light pole in Missouri cut into a fiber line, knocking out 911 service for emergency agencies in Nebraska, Nevada and South Dakota, an official with the company that operates the fiber line said Thursday.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Facebook parent Meta Platforms unveiled a new set of artificial intelligence systems Thursday that are powering what CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls “the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use.”
CASA GRANDE — The city Fire Department's addition of ambulance service and a new station come as residential and industrial growth continue to boom in town.
With scenic state routes and plenty of ground to cover, there's a lot of great reasons to road-trip in and around Pinal County. There are also a host of wonderful destinations to see. Here are…
Arizona is blessed with an abundance of natural resources, one of those being a rich reserve of copper ore. In this article, I’m going to focus on three very different mining projects, all loc…
The Avocado Nursery's staff take their years of experience and share it with others wanting to create their own backyard paradise and garden as people drive up to the 10-acre plot along Overfi…
Hoping to bring a canopy of green and longterm beauty to the community, several area groups are working to plant a sea of trees across Pinal County.
With gloves, trash bags and a go-getter attitude, volunteers every spring and fall blanket Pinal County to pick up the trash and debris that accumulates along the roadways.
While the first of the year is well behind us, the spring is sometimes the best time to really make the most out of our New Year's resolutions, mostly because the weather is great.
Now that we’ve reached 2024, you might be thinking about your goals and hopes for the new year. But in addition to whatever personal resolutions you might make — volunteering, going to the gym…
Every year, as winter slowly gives way to spring, the desert landscape in Pinal transforms from sand-colored browns and tans to blankets of purple, yellow, reds and other hues as wildflowers c…
Since it reopened last year, the Arizona City Community Library at 13254 S. Sunland Gin Road has become popular, especially with retirees and families with young children, Manager Jeff Prock s…
Recently Arizona has received its fair share of rain and, in some places, snow. And while the winter precipitation may be good for improving drought conditions, it can also bring some dangers …
With beautiful wildflowers blooming, an abundance of soft-hued color schemes and the warmer temperatures that come with the end of winter, spring is a great season for crafting and changing ho…
Spring is a time for growth, both literally and figuratively.
A huge shout-out to Brianna González for submitting this adorable picture snapped at the Casa Grande Street Fair's Car Show in January.
Prepare your tastebuds for delicious dishes from all over Arizona brought to one location in the city of Maricopa, thanks to Food Truck Friday. Here are four menu items from four food trucks t…
Art is good for the soul — even if you consider yourself not to be much good at it.
Maricopa is always buzzing with activity during spring; the weather is just warm enough without being too warm, making daytime and evening events both practical and enjoyable. Here are just a …
Four is the magic number this year.
Maricopa has many hidden gems and plenty of historical treasures. With a history that goes back to the late 1880s — including the establishment of previous sites Maricopa Wells and Maricopavil…
While there’s nothing inherently wrong with scrolling through Instagram from time to time or streaming a show or two on Disney+ or a similar streaming app, many parents find these activities t…
Maricopa might be considered a young city, but it has a lot to offer when it comes to exploring. Though some might find Maricopa to be a fast-moving urban community, it also has a rich rural h…
Sometimes as adults, it can feel like meeting new people and making new friends is challenging — like trying to fly a kite in the middle of a thunderstorm while simultaneously trying to juggle…
With one of the largest populations in Pinal County, there's no doubt that Maricopa is a growing city.
In late 2023, we announced that we were developing a new section of our magazine called Community Corner. For our first Community Corner, we asked members of the community to help us recognize…
Whether you're looking to get involved and give back to the community or you'd just like to know more about local service organizations throughout Maricopa, here are four that should be on you…
Whether you're looking to spend more time outdoors, get in shape or visit new places, there are many options within Maricopa.
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- When gardens wake up again, its time to tackle spring chores
- Simple or Not Kitchen: Homemade Worcestershire sauce easy to make, better than store bought
- California sets long-awaited drinking water limit for 'Erin Brockovich' contaminant
- No link between Ozempic, Wegovy and suicide, EU drug regulators say
- One-fourth of people dropped from Medicaid still aren't insured, survey shows
- US measles cases are up in 2024. What's driving the increase?
- Company that made millions of defective sleep apnea machines ordered to overhaul manufacturing
- Weedkiller manufacturer seeks lawmakers' help to squelch claims it failed to warn about cancer
- Greenhand creed ceremony encourages FFA pride
- CHS FFA member writes curriculum, teaches agriculture boot camp class
- Florence ag students raising gardens
- Pampered pigs helping students learn animal husbandry