SIERRA VISTA — A lightning strike zapped a little too close to City Hall on Wednesday afternoon, leaving some buildings with no phone or Internet service, officials said.
SIERRA VISTA — A lightning strike zapped a little too close to City Hall on Wednesday afternoon, leaving some buildings with no phone or Internet service, officials said.
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PHOENIX — The state’s top health official is quitting.
The Sierra Vista City Council adopted the final budget for fiscal year 2021-22 at a special meeting on Monday, July 26.
Editor’s note: Cochise County’s other Legislative District 14 elected officials, Sen. David Gowan and Rep. Becky Nutt, were presented the same questions by the Herald/Review, but as of press time have not responded. They are still welcome to provide answers to these questions.
Courts and Crime
- Bond set in child sex abuse case, no court-appointed attorney available for defendant
- Man charged with attempted sex with minor in SV is asylum seeker
- Man seeking plea deal in fatal cyclist hit-and-run case
- Tombstone man arrested on multiple child sex crime charges; incidents could go back decades
- Accused killer of toddler must decide on plea offer or trial
- Tucson man seeking financial damages from city in illegal search
- Man accused of repeatedly stabbing workmate enters settlement conference
- Police arrest local man on sexual exploitation of minor charges
- State Supreme Court cites constitutional law in jury bias case
- Judge quashes Brnovich bid to use COVID cash for tax cuts
- Group fights tax-cut option on ballot
- Appeals court quashes Shooter rights-violation move
- Man sentenced to 10 years in prison for car theft with toddlers inside
- Legislature tells Appeals Court it has sole right to schedule open meetings
- Appeals court rules public has no right to jurors' names
- Police board moves to investigate certification of two officers in county
- Two killed involved in drug debt with shooter, officials say
- Defendant in murder case seeking 'universal plea,' attorney says
- Cochise County accepting requests for marijuana-case expungement
- Two shot to death in Sierra Vista; police investigating
We had a long but very successful 2021 legislative session.
COCHISE COUNTY — It’s unclear whether the corporation that was awarded the state license to operate one more cannabis dispensary in Cochise County will open in Douglas as originally planned, officials say.
PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey is doubling down on his refusal to reimpose mitigation measures to help slow the increasing spread of COVID-19.
BILLINGS, Mont. — A bitterly divided U.S. Senate panel deadlocked Thursday on President Joe Biden’s pick to oversee vast government-owned lands in the West, as Democrats united behind a nominee whose credibility was assailed by Republicans over her links to a 1989 environmental sabotage case.
PHOENIX — The state’s top health official said Tuesday that schools should be able to quarantine unvaccinated students and keep them out of class in at least some cases when they have been exposed to COVID-19.
SIERRA VISTA — Anyone who frequents Fry Boulevard will see a marked difference by the end of this year with less road and more beauty and space on both sides of the street, city officials said.
PHOENIX — Maricopa County officials say the claims made about the election that some have labeled a “bombshell’’ are really a dud.
DOUGLAS — Douglas City Council voted during last Wednesday’s meeting and in a special meeting on July 16 to approve the second reading regarding the purchase of the Rivera Building, located at 357 E. 10th St., to Harrell Cooley LLC for $65,000.
PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey is defending his promotion of a flat income tax rate as saving the average Arizonan $300 a year even though legislative budget staffers figure that 72% of state residents will see a benefit of less than $45.
PHOENIX — Arizona schools will be required beginning next year to teach students about the Holocaust at least twice between the seventh and 12th grades.
PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey signed legislation Friday to block the use of public funds for what he calls “critical race theory.’’
BENSON — Villages at Vigneto’s Section 404 permit under the Clean Water Act has been suspended by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey is rescinding some — but not all — of the executive orders he issued dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
PHOENIX — Arizonans may get the last word on a nearly $2 billion tax cut plan that mainly benefits the wealthy.
BISBEE — On the heels of a three–day workshop, Cochise County Planner II Christine McLachlan presented to Cochise County Supervisors possible additions to the strategic plan and building and zoning codes that could help residents outside the Sierra Vista Subwatershed preserve their water res…
PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey on Wednesday signed legislation putting in place an immediate $1.3 billion tax cut, set to rise to $1.9 billion, that is designed largely to benefit the most wealthy.
PHOENIX — Saying it might lead to more — and better — candidates, state lawmakers voted Wednesday to more than triple their cost-of-living allowance, at least for those who live outside Maricopa County.
PHOENIX — It looks like Bruce Babbitt is going to remain the last Arizona governor to have a veto overridden, at least for the time being.
WILLCOX — In fiscal year 2022, the city of Willcox budget is projected to be more than $7.2 million, a big jump from fiscal years 2020 and 2021 when it was more than $4.4 million.
BISBEE — Though a new five-year fee schedule to recover the actual costs for environmental health inspections was proposed, the Cochise County Board of Supervisors wants to have more information before the matter comes before them for approval.
PHOENIX — Republicans just got a fifth choice for governor.
BISBEE — As the county continues to pay the minimum payment on the debt owed to the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System, the debt grows at $1.5 million a year, expected to reach $36,750,774 in 2022.
PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers voted Friday to require that students be exposed to the stories of people who have fled communism as part of a curriculum to prepare them to be “civically responsible and knowledgeable adults.’’
PHOENIX — With some verbal slaps at how Doug Ducey has handled the current emergency, Republican lawmakers voted Friday to ask Arizona voters to give them the right to quash future declarations.
PHOENIX — Republican state representatives voted Friday to allow the owners of small businesses — and anyone who organizes their finances for tax purposes as one — to escape paying the voter-approved income tax surcharge on the wealthy to fund education.