state and local news

State lawmakers are moving to penalize cities financially that have a minimum wage higher than the rest of the state.

Kinsel celebrated his 106th birthday at his home in Lukachukai, Arizona. He's one of the last three surviving Navajo Code Talkers.

Volunteers who visited sites in California and Arizona around Thanksgiving tallied more than 330,000 butterflies, the highest number of these insects counted in the last six years.

California released a plan Tuesday detailing how Western states reliant on the Colorado River should save more water. It came a day after the six other states in the river basin made a competing proposal.

The bill’s sponsor said children shouldn’t be forced to take what he described as experimental drugs.

Class is canceled at Flagstaff’s Mount Elden Middle School today after officials say a student allegedly assaulted another student with a knife on campus Monday.

Six Western states that rely on water from the Colorado River have agreed on a model to dramatically cut water use in the basin. California is the holdout.

Bullhead City police say a bystander was struck by gunfire during a shootout between a man and officers at a recreational vehicle resort.

The upper part of Cathedral Rock Trail in the Coconino National Forest will be closed for construction for the next two months.

Weather officials say hefty snowfalls that fed the Colorado River in recent weeks may slow the water level decline of Lake Mead on the Nevada-Arizona border.