City of Flagstaff

The Coconino County Board of Supervisors this week unanimously approved an audible siren system for areas impacted by flooding from 2019’s Museum Fire. Last summer, more than 50 Flagstaff homes were inundated with water causing over $1.5 million in damage to private property.

The Flagstaff City Council has approved a recommendation to remain in Phase 3 of the city’s pandemic re-entry plan during the current coronavirus surge, with some site-specific adjustments.

The Flagstaff City Council will return to meeting virtually for the next three weeks because of a recent spike in COVID-19 cases driven by the omicron variant.

Flagstaff has been gradually raising its minimum wage in recent years. On Jan. 1 it’ll increase to $15.50 an hour. The wage is more than $3 above the state’s and Arizona's highest.

The city of Flagstaff is hitting pause on the construction of new buildings in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey because of soaring costs.

Dozens of fire professionals from across the West recently gathered on Observatory Mesa in Flagstaff to conduct a 70-acre prescribed burn. It was part of the Prescribed Fire Training Exchange, a first-of-its-kind program to disseminate fire management knowledge across multiple agencies and states.

Tucson voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure to gradually increase the minimum wage in Arizona’s second most populous city to $15 an hour by 2025.

The City of Flagstaff and Coconino County are making long-term plans for handling stormwater in the neighborhoods below the Museum Fire scar, which were inundated with floods this summer. KNAU's Melissa Sevigny reports, so far there's no funding to implement the planned solutions.

Fire managers with the City of Flagstaff are conducting a prescribed burn Tuesday on about 70 acres west of the city on Observatory Mesa.

Fire managers are gathering this week in Flagstaff for a first-of-its-kind training in prescribed burns.