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Gila County residents older than 75 can sign up now for a COVID-19 vaccine by signing up for a shot through the Banner Health Clinic in northern Gila County or the Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center in southern Gila County. The health centers are taking first come, first served reservations at https://www.bannerhealth.com/staying-well/health-and-wellness/wellness/covid/gila-county-vaccine. If all the slots have been allocated, you’ll have to keep contacting the site until slots again open u...

Sunday, Jan. 24

America’s wide-open West is marked by reminders of its legendary, lawless frontier days. Apache County in the Arizona Territory of the late 1800s had more than its share of gunmen and horse thieves.

URL copied to clipboard The murder of George Floyd in May this year triggered uprisings against and conversations about racism in countries across the world. It felt as though the Black Lives Matter movement – founded in 2013 by three Black women in the US – had gone global on an unprecedented scale. And while racism is an issue that transcends borders (White supremacy was, after all, a colonial project), it takes on different forms in different contexts. What constitutes racism in Cana...

Arizona reports 138 new cases of COVID-19; 16,874 total deaths Pima County reports 47 new cases COVID-19: Things you can do at home to manage it By KOLD News 13 Staff | January 29, 2020 at 12:13 PM MST - Updated March 25 at 8:38 AM TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Arizona reported 138 new cases of COVID-19, and 32 new deaths on Thursday, March 25. The Arizona Department of Health Services said there have been 16,874 deaths due to COVID-19 across the state since the pandemic began. Track COVI...

The Gila County Board of Supervisors is mulling over having a lobbyist represent it at the state level. A work session on the issue was held as part of the BOS meeting Dec. 15. On hand to talk with the supervisors regarding Arizona legislative activity and issues that have the potential to affect Gila County was James Candland from Clarus Consulting. Currently, the County Supervisors Association provides some lobbying efforts on behalf of Gila County, but since it represents all the counties in...

Last Wednesday James Phillip Anderson appeared in custody in front of Judge C. Allen Perkins with both attorneys ready to go. That’s when Prosecutor Whiting dropped a bombshell: the State of Arizona was not prepared to honor the agreement and moved to withdraw from it. Even over Zoom, it was clear that Defense Counsel Brewer was absolutely stunned. He quickly and correctly recognized that the development “puts me in a very awkward position,” he tol...

APACHE COUNTY — David Lamoyne Wilbert, 65, of Denver, pleaded guilty in the Apache County Superior Court on Dec. 9 to the manslaughter death of his wife, Kim Robinson, 58. She was a passenger in a 2004 Ford Explorer that Wilber crashed into a fence after a rollover on U.S. Highway 191 north of Chinle. That’s where the Arizona Department of Transportation lists milepost 478, the location of the wreck according to court filings prepared by Department of Public Safety which investigated ...

By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX -- Gov. Doug Ducey is not going to order any businesses closed in three Arizona counties that, by his own standards, now have substantial transmission of COVID-19, with a press aide saying theres no reason for that. New data Thursday from the Department of Health Services shows that Yavapai, Apache and Navajo counties all have two consecutive weeks where all three indicators of viral spread have gone into the "red zone. Under Duceys own orders, t...