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The Arizona Interscholastic Association has reversed its earlier decision to cancel the winter sports season due to concerns about community spread of COVID-19. Its Executive...

The Maricopa real estate market strongly favored sellers for much of the year. And though 2020 will be forever ingrained in our minds for...

Hard work. As the Maricopa Mambas celebrated their state football championship on Saturday with family and supporters, that phrase was mentioned repeatedly as the source...

The Arizona Interscholastic Association on Friday canceled the winter sports season, noting the state has the highest rate of coronavirus hospitalizations in the nation. After...

Michael “The Rolling Pilot” Glen is as passionate as ever about hot-air ballooning. Nearly a decade has passed since our last contact with Glen, who...

I came to Maricopa from the suburbs of Philadelphia in April. My brother Mike was gracious enough to make the 2,359-mile drive with me...

UPDATE, Dec. 21, 5:17 p.m. Pinal County Public Health announced Monday that a small number of its community partners have received shipment of COVID-19 Moderna...

Arizona Interscholastic Association’s Executive Board will push the start of the winter sports season to Jan. 18 due to concerns about the spread of...

Let's face it: 2020 has been one tough year. With less than three weeks to go till Christmas, we thought we’d ask what kind of...

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 Maricopa Mambas 12u football team won the state championship on Saturday in its inaugural season. The team defeated the Peoria Panthers, 30-13, in a...

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...

Mary Jane Sullivan, a 10-year resident of Maricopa and school bus driver for the Maricopa Unified School District for the last four years, died...

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...

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...

  Last year, Leo Lew was a finalist for the position of Pinal County manager after the retirement of Greg Stanley. Supervisors instead chose Louis...

The December graduation proposed for 2020 graduates of Maricopa High School will be postponed again, according to Patti Coutre, a Maricopa Unified School District...

  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,...

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...

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

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann announced she is appointing Sen. Vince Leach to the position of president pro tempore, or “pro tem.” Leach represents Legislative...

The American flags were plentiful and puffed on Porter Road on Saturday morning. Hundreds and hundreds of people lined the thoroughfare for the fourth annual...

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...