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The Payson Elks National Basketball Free Throw Hoop Shoot is at 1 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 4 at the Tonto Apache Gym. Registration is at noon. The competition is open to

Many residents of Rim Country only know the Tonto Apache for their Mazatzal Hotel and Casino, but they also have members of the tribe with their own significant cultural contributions.

Residents in communities across Gila County are invited to local meetings with members of the Gila County Redistricting Committee to learn about the process and have questions answered.

Goat Camp Ruin is a prehistoric Northern Salado site owned by the Town of Payson, which acquired it from the Forest Service in the 1990s.

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The area’s three governing bodies — the Payson and Star Valley town councils and the Tonto Apache Tribal Council — sat down for the first-ever joint meeting Oct. 5.

Tonto Apache Police Department officers made another big drug bust recently.

Arizona’s Tuzigoot National Monument, discovered about 100 years ago, has been well excavated and the site’s museum is full of Sinagua people’s artifacts.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected businesses across the world.

The project created defensible space while improving tree health, especially for the Emory oak, according to officials. The Tonto Apache value the Emory’s acorns as a traditional and culturally important food, explained district staff in a Facebook post. The project used a mechanized form of thinning rather than fire. The Forest Service uses fire to thin a forest if conditions allow for a small creep-along-the-forest-floor fire that only burns smaller fuel. In comparison, a masticator chew...