SEDONA AZ (May 8, 2013) – Shortly after 1:00 in the afternoon on Saturday, May 4, 2013, Sedona Fire District (SFD) crews responded to a reported injured hiker on the Wilson Mountain Trail. Emergency crews responded from SFD Fire Station #5 in Oak Creek Canyon and SFD Fire Station #4 in uptown Sedona to the Wilson Mountain Trailhead at Midgley Bridge. Once at the trailhead, SFD Battalion Chief... 

Sedona AZ (May 6, 2013) – When Miss Dorothy Philips, secretary to the president of a Texas oil company, decided to build her Sedona retirement home on Color Cove Road in the early 1950s, she was ahead of her time. She hired the Phoenix architecture firm Weaver & Drover and wrote letters instructing them on the design, materials and siting she desired on her six acre parcel. She would be... 

Cottonwood AZ (May 6, 2013) – Lane restrictions will be required on an eight-mile segment of Arizona State Route 89A between Cottonwood and Sedona beginning Monday, May 13, 2013, to allow crews to perform preventative maintenance on the roadway, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation. Work will continue daily, Monday to Thursday from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. until May 21, 2013. The four-lane... 

Photo left to right: Chef Greg Koss, Up the Creek Grill (Peoples Choice Award), and Chef Patrick Jochim, Steaks and Sticks Restaurant & Bar at Los Abrigados (Judges Award). Sedona AZ (May 4, 2013) – Saturday saw more than 1,000 chili enthusiasts flock to the Tlaquepaque Arts and Crafts Village in beautiful Sedona, Arizona, to help determine the best chili in the area and to support the Rotary... 

Sedona AZ (April 28, 2013) – The construction of the two-mile-long climbing lane near the top of Copper Canyon Hill will require closing Arizona Interstate 17 in both directions on Thursday, May 2, 2013, for up to one hour between midnight and 1 a.m. as crews prepare for blasting rock cuts along the highway. Traffic on northbound I-17 will be stopped at State Route 169 and southbound I-17 will... 

Sedona Fire District 2013 yard waste clean-up event scheduled for May 17-19 SEDONA AZ (April 24, 2013) – The Sedona Fire District (SFD), U.S. Forest Service and BSE Rents are joining together to offer Sedona area residents an opportunity to dispose of yard waste and combustible vegetation prior to fire season. SFD Fire Station #4, located at 391 Forest Road in uptown Sedona, will be accepting yard... 

Camp Verde AZ (April 15, 2013) – Between April 4, 2013, at 6:00 in the evening and April 8, 2013, at 6:00 in the morning, unknown suspects burglarized a construction equipment trailer from a work site on State Highway 260 near Milepost 237 in Camp Verde, Arizona. Stolen property includes: 1. Honda air compressor valued at $2500 2. 2 Lincoln battery powered grease guns, total value $600 3. 2 Honda... 

Sedona AZ (April 11, 2013) – The Arizona Department of Transportation will close the Sunset Point rest area on AZ Interstate 17 for four days beginning Monday, April 15, 2013, from 6 p.m. until Friday, April 19, 2013, at 5 a.m. to allow crews to seal cracks in the pavement and restripe the parking lot. The work is part of a $2.5 million project that included a new water system and improvements... 

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...