SHOW LOW AZ (April 16, 2013) – The Arizona Department of Transportation has reopened several highways in the White Mountains that are closed each winter after the first snowfall today. The following highways have reopened: State Route 261 between Eagar and Big Lake State Route 273 between Sunrise Park and Big Lake State Route 473 between State Route 260 and Hawley Lake ADOT encourages Arizonans... 

WICKENBURG AZ (April 13, 2013) – The traveling public is advised that due to a special event, the junction of Arizona US 60 and US 93 at the south roundabout in downtown Wickenburg will close briefly from 11:30 a.m. until Noon on Monday, April 15, 2013, and again Friday, April 19, 2013, from Noon until 12:30 p.m. alerts the Arizona Department of Transportation. Plan your travels accordingly... 

Wilma Black missing from her Rimrock home Sedona AZ (April 11, 2013) – UPDATE:  Just before midnight April 11, Wilma Black was found by search dogs alive, cold, and otherwise well. Around noon today, YCSO deputies were called to the 4400 block of Tagalong Trail, Rimrock, Arizona, regarding a missing woman identified as 76-year-old Wilma Black. Her husband reported that Wilma had gone for a... 

Sedona AZ (April 11, 2013) – On March 27, 2013, at 2:30 in the morning, a Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office deputy saw a green Ford Expedition fail to come to a complete stop while exiting AZ Interstate 17 southbound off-ramp at SR Highway 179. The vehicle turned north on to Highway 179 and accelerated quickly. The YCSO deputy continued to follow as the vehicle began weaving while speeding... 

Prescott AZ (April 10, 2013) – The Arizona Department of Transportation advises the Arizona traveling public of the following roadwork scheduled for April 11 and 12, 2013: Crews are scheduled to remove and replace pavement on AZ State Route 89A in Prescott Valley at the intersection of Coyote Springs Road (mileposts 324-325) this week. The pavement improvement work on Thursday and Friday, April... 

Washington DC (April 10, 2013) – The President’s FY 2014 defense budget request released today is a “placebo, a placeholder with no effect,” according to Travis Sharp, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Mr. Sharp notes in his commentary, Placebo: The 2014 Defense Budget and DOD’s Credibility Challenges, that defense spending levels... 

Sedona AZ (April 7, 2013) – Coconino National Forest will begin selling firewood permits Friday, April 12, 2013, and the public may begin cutting the following day (Saturday) after the purchase of a permit. Permits are $20, which are good for four cords of wood, and each additional cord of wood after that is $5, up to a maximum of 10 cords per household for the season. These permits allow for... 

Flagstaff AZ (April 5, 2013) – UPDATE April 5, 2013 at 4:48 PM – The Technical Rescue Team has raised Ms. Heon up to the rim of the canyon using a mechanical type rope system. She will then be helicopter transported to the Slide Rock area. Currently she is refusing further medical treatment. UPDATE April 5, 2013 at 3:30 PM – At 2:00 p.m. this afternoon, a team of rescuers (technical... 

Rescue helicopters vital during search for two men who sent SOS signal in Verde canyon wilderness Sedona AZ (April 3, 2013) – On April 1, 2013, at approximately two o’clock in the afternoon, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a man reporting that his father, 55-year-old Thomas Bennett from Phoenix, was in some unknown distress in the Verde wilderness. The... 

Elk statue relocated by owner to Phoenix Prescott AZ (April 3, 2013) – Media reports yesterday caused the owner of two reportedly stolen statues to call the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office and advise both were safe and sound. The owner indicated that eight years ago he sold the property on Heavenwood Lane, Prescott, Arizona, with a purchase agreement to remove the statues at...