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The Apache County Public Health Services District has confirmed a human case of plague in a county resident, the first reported locally since 2015.

A decades-long conflict over free-roaming horses in Heber/Overgaard and surrounding areas in northeastern Arizona is reaching a turning point, as federal officials prepare to begin enforcement actions that could significantly reduce horse populations across the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. This article examines the question now facing the region: how did we get here?

PHOENIX — A surge of federal investigators is being deployed to Arizona Tribal communities as part of a nationwide FBI initiative aimed at addressing violent crime and unresolved cases involving Indigenous victims, officials announced.

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge dismissed an election challenge against LD7 State Rep. Walter Blackman, citing critical procedural errors by plaintiff Steven Slaton before the case could proceed

Changes to U.S. Forest Service VIPR contracts are expanding the use of chainsaws on privately contracted wildfire engines, a shift that may help address longstanding dispatch disparities and give private contractors a more competitive footing in wildfire response.