he Flagstaff City Council is expected to start formally interviewing applicants for the city’s top position late next week, five months after former City Manager Dave Wilcox left the city.
The council is expected to interview between six and 10 applicants by phone over two days.
It is facing a hiring deadline under the city charter of [...]
Councilmember Al White believes the Flagstaff Fire Department is a victim of its own successes.
“The problem is that they do such a good job with what they have now, it is hard to justify more,” said White.
White notes the department has a 90 percent approval rating with the general public, and he favors the request [...]
On June 23, 2004, a 55-year-old man stopped his pickup truck along a dirt road near a mud bog nestled in Ponderosa pines 45 miles south of Flagstaff.
It was not unusual for Van Bateman, fire management officer for the Mogollon Ranger District, to be out in the woods, especially during wildfire season.
But on this date, [...]
Local police arrested a Flagstaff man they had been searching for the past two weeks after an anonymous tipster led them to his location.
Ray Almendarez, 39, was arrested on Friday morning at an eastside trailer home by officers from the Flagstaff Police Department and the Metro anti-narcotics task force. Almendarez reportedly attempted to run past [...]
Democrats say they are going to go all out next year to try to capture the seat in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District held by Republican Rep. Rick Renzi, whose political future has been clouded by his connection to a pending federal investigation into a land deal.
But if Democrats do make a serious run in what, [...]
Flagstaff police used a Taser to arrest a man who allegedly tried to force his way into the attached apartment behind a motel office early Wednesday while threatening to kill the owners.
According to police reports, the man knocked on the door of the Howard Johnson, 3300 E. Route 66, at about 2:50 a.m. and one [...]
(AP) – A businessman says a new Arizona law barring use of the names of dead soldiers without permission of families won’t stop him from offering anti-war T-shirts.
Those shirts carry the names of thousands of American casualties in Iraq.
Complaints from families prompted the Arizona Legislature to pass a bill making it a misdemeanor to use [...]
(AP) – The owners of the Black Mesa mine on the Hopi and Navajo reservations in northeast Arizona hope to find other outlets for coal from the mine, shuttered since a power plant in Nevada closed in January 2006.
Peabody Western Coal Co. and officials with the tribes that own the land are seeking other customers [...]
Democrat Ellen Simon announced that she is withdrawing from the race for Arizona’s First Congressional District, a seat now occupied by Republican Rick Renzi.
“Over the past two years, as I’ve traveled throughout the district, I’ve been privileged to meet so many residents that inspired me to try my best to faithfully represent them in Congress. [...]
Saying it is not responsible for removing radioactive waste located near a former uranium milling site outside of Tuba City, El Paso Natural Gas Company has filed suit against the federal government.
The lawsuit seeks to have the federal agencies pay to clean up radioactive waste found in the Tuba City dump and at other nearby [...]
