Arizona Department of Health Services

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report rising community levels of COVID-19 in many Arizona counties.

State health officials say they’ve identified the first probable case of monkeypox in Arizona. The case involves a man in his late 30s in Maricopa County.

Arizona’s public health agency has awarded more than two dozen social equity dispensary licenses under the state’s voter-approved law legalizing recreational marijuana.

Arizona on Wednesday reported that its COVID-19 death toll had passed 30,000 fatalities recorded since the pandemic began in early 2020.

The Arizona Department of Health Services will hold a drawing next month for the 26 adult-use marijuana establishment licenses available as part of the social equity ownership program.

COVID-19 infections in Coconino County dipped slightly in the third week of January. But cases locally and statewide continue to remain at their highest levels of the pandemic, and Arizona reported its highest-ever daily death toll Wednesday.

COVID-19 tests are in short supply as cases spike in Arizona. KNAU's Melissa Sevigny reports.

Confirmed COVID-19 infections in Coconino County have more than doubled in recent weeks as the omicron variant is driving a major surge nationwide. County health officials Friday reported more than 3,000 additional cases during the first week of January.

Arizona health officials are urging residents to get COVID-19 booster shots as soon as possible because of the rapid spread of the highly contagious omicron variant.

Arizona health officials say they’ve confirmed the state’s first known case of the omicron variant of COVID-19 in Yavapai County.