Wellton Manufacturing Training Center enrollment numbers rise
According to Arizona Western College (AWC), enrollment has increased to almost double at the Wellton Manufacturing Training Center over the past…
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Counting the homeless in Yuma County
On Wednesday, volunteers from the Yuma Coalition to End Homelessness started counting the homeless population in Yuma…
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Arizona GOP chairman quits after leaked tape shows him floating a job for Kari Lake to skip Senate race
Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jeff DeWit resigned Wednesday after he could be heard in a leaked recording offering a job and asking U.S. Senate…
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Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake calls for GOP chairman to resign following audio leak
The audio was posted by Arizona conservative talk show host Garret Lewis, and is purportedly from an early 2023 exchange between Jeff DeWit and Lake…
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2024 Blue Collar Tour visiting Kofa High School
According to a press release, the tour started on January 16 with a goal of visiting over 30 high schools and trade schools across the country to…
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Phoenix woman gets 37-year prison sentence in death of her baby from malnutrition, medical neglect
Maricopa County prosecutors said 48-year-old Denise Janelle Snow-Ingram was convicted last November on one count each of second-degree murder and…
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Man sentenced to life in prison for the fatal shooting of a deputy U.S. marshal in Arizona in 2018
Ryan Phillip Schlesinger, 31, was not in court for Monday’s sentencing as his lawyers argued for a prison term of less than 50…
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Backpage founder will face Arizona retrial on charges he participated in scheme to sell sex ads
A jury in mid-November 2023 convicted Michael Lacey of one count of international concealment money laundering, acquitted him on another money…
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Small Business Development Center helping local entrepreneurs
The Small Business Development Center in Yuma helps entrepreneurs in Yuma and La Paz County looking to start their…
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Sentinel Rest Area on Interstate 8 reopens
The Arizona Department of Transportation announced the west and eastbound Sentinel Rest Areas on Interstate 8 at milepost 83 have…
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Local family creates GoFundMe for man battling stage 4 cancer
A local family has created a GoFundMe for a man battling stage 4 cancer. According to the family, doctors say the man, Tyler, may only have…
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Local high schools chosen to receive grant from AZ Diamondbacks
Three high schools in Yuma County were selected to receive a grant from the Arizona Diamondbacks’ initiative to support baseball and softball…
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WEB EXCLUSIVE: “Shark Tank” Season 16 casting for local entrepreneurs
According to a press release, those who participate can present their products and companies to the Sharks in hopes of “landing an investment and…
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Heeke out as University of Arizona Athletic Director
Dave Heeke’s departure comes as the university as a whole is dealing with a $240 million…
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American Rescue Plan Act funding update
In March 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President…
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BLM announces prescribed burning in Yuma County and near Blythe
The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Colorado District announced it is planning to conduct prescribed burning at Mittry Lake Wildlife Area and near…
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Arizona Senator Mark Kelly on 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade
Back in 2022, the Supreme Court overturned the decision, causing an uproar in people fighting for abortion…
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YPD motorcycle officer injured following crash
In a press release, the Yuma Police Department says the crash occurred at around 7:43am Monday in the area of W. 16th Street and S. Avenue…
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Gadsden ESD #32 announces board president and board clerk
In a press release, Luis Marquez has been named as the board’s president and Tadeo De La Hoya has been named as the board’s…
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Feds look to drastically cut recreational target shooting within Arizona’s Sonoran Desert monument
The agency announced Friday that a proposed resource management plan amendment would allow target shooting on 5,295 acres of the monument and be…
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