Covid-19

On Wednesday night, the Maricopa Unified School District Governing Board went against the administration's recommendation to extend Winter Break by four days out of...

The Maricopa Unified School District Governing Board voted unanimously Wednesday night to reject its superintendent’s recommendation to extend Winter Break. School will resume after the...

Due to increasing health and safety concerns related to COVID-19, winter in the southwest will come and go without the time-traveling celebration of the...

Homeowners in Pinal County looking for signs of what is to come in the housing market can rest easy, according to a leading expert...

Snowbirds Jeff Zerr and Dave DeVos are back. Tony Zarrillo is not. “The risk is too great,” he said. The pandemic’s impact on Maricopa’s winter visitors is...

The superintendent of Maricopa Unified School District will recommend an extension of Winter Break due to the rising number of coronavirus cases in Pinal...

UPDATE: Tuesday, Dec. 1, 5:15 p.m. Starbucks reopened Tuesday after 10-day-or-so closure. The store was closed out of an abundance of caution after an employee...

Maricopa Wells Middle School has now joined Maricopa High School in shutting down campus for the remainder of the semester. It is the second...

Whether to return to all-online learning or continue the status quo became a moot point for Maricopa High School this week. An increase in...

  Maricopa High School is closing campus for the rest of the semester. Maricopa Unified School District reported additional cases of COVID-19 on Monday and more...

With the holidays upon us, the biggest threat to our health is another wave of COVID-19 cases. We already know our generation is the...

A shelter-in-place order in Arizona, from Tuesday through Dec. 22, is necessary to avoid a public health “catastrophe,” a team of coronavirus researchers is...

It took Rhianon Bender a year to get her Black Friday deal, but she got it. The Maricopa resident came out of Walmart on Friday...

COVID-19 has caused the extended closure of two more schools in the Maricopa Unified School District. The reach of quarantine rather than the spread of...

Maricopa High School administration confirmed Tuesday that plans for a December graduation for its 2020 seniors would be postponed until late May. Public health restrictions...

Maricopa Fire/Medical Department canceled a ribbon cutting scheduled for late Monday afternoon, citing an increase in exposure of its members to coronavirus. The grand opening...

  In Arizona, the winter season of the high school sports year typically start the first of December, even earlier if Thanksgiving weekend tournaments are...

Pinal County is opening a third round of funding for businesses impacted by COVID-19. The funds are for first-time applicants operating businesses in unincorporated areas. “Those...

Many Arizona residents are asking, "When will the coronavirus restrictions end?" Gov. Doug Ducey said Wednesday he gets the question all the time. “The answer is,...

Numbers of COVID-19 cases had been creeping up recently at Maricopa Wells Middle School. Today, the school district opted to close the school from...

The Arizona Interscholastic Association is weighing a recommendation to postpone the start of the winter sports season. Executive director David Hines will meet this week...

It's just a couple weeks until Thanksgiving, so we thought we’d ask what kind of celebration folks are planning amid a nationwide surge in...

Overwhelmed. It was a term used frequently at a Monday meeting hosted by Arizona Superintendent Kathy Hoffman with school leaders and Health Director Dr....

The numbers don’t lie: the coronavirus has ravaged the national economy since March. Across the country, nearly 100,000 small businesses closed, nearly 60% of...

A popular Maricopa restaurant immediately closed Friday after learning an employee tested positive for coronavirus. A staffer at Native Grill & Wings, who last worked...

A little blood, some broken glass, strands of hair and, of course, a “dead body” are all important parts of crime scenes at Desert...

Starting Nov. 3, Maricopa High School will suspend in-person learning through Nov. 13. According to communications sent to parents by Maricopa Unified School District, the...

The student at A+ Charter Schools who tested positive for coronavirus earlier in the week was initially provided the wrong test results, the school...

Two days after Maricopa Unified School District had to close down an elementary school, three new cases of COVID-19 were reported at the high...

  Six days from Election Day, Pinal County is thousands of voters ahead of its 2016 number of early ballots. The Recorder’s Office is gearing up...