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Two men were arrested earlier this month during a traffic stop that the Cottonwood Police Department says involved the seizure of drugs worth more than $200,000 in street value.

A 16-year-old Yavapai-Apache boy and a 23-year-old Sedona man accused in a shooting incident Tuesday evening at the Camp Verde Maverik convenience store have been arrested, the Camp Verde Marshal’s Office said Thursday.

Tuesday, for the second time in October, the Clarkdale Town Council spent a large part of a meeting talking about marijuana.

The water for the new jail and Justice Center proposed in Prescott will come from the City of Prescott’s water system, based on a decision by the Prescott City Council this week.

Car thefts have risen dramatically with nearly 750,000 vehicles (or 228 per 100,000 residents) stolen in the U.S. each year, representing a loss of about $6 billion annually, according to a research article by CoPilot GPS Navigation and Traffic.

Camp Verde’s Oct. 27 and Oct. 29 volleyball games, and all practices for the week have been canceled because a member of the team has tested positive for COVID-19, Athletic Director Dan Wall confirmed Tuesday.

Once again, the Arizona Department of Health Services is reporting more than 1,000 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours.

The Yavapai County Sherriff’s Office needs your help finding who used a 22-caliber weapon to shoot a vehicle stranded on Bull Pen Road in Camp Verde on Monday, Oct. 19.

Here are some events and other announcements about things happening in the Verde Valley.

Between 8:15 a.m. and 9:15 a.m. Wednesday, a sewer spill of approximately 500 to 700 gallons occurred along State Route 89A near the Arroyo Pinon Drive intersection. According to an Oct. 28 news release from the City of Sedona, the spill was due to tree roots creating a block in the sewer line and is not associated with the SR 179 Sewer Main Replacement Project.

The ugly truth was laid bare when an international team of researchers ran their final model on plastic pollution in the Pacific. The results would reveal just how much the world would have to reduce plastic waste to prevent more than 8 million metric tons from entering the oceans, lakes and rivers every year – and whether that was even possible.

Nearly eight months ago, 17,125 hockey fans filled the seats of Gila River Arena to watch the Arizona Coyotes in their final home game of the season before a league-wide shutdown due to COVID-19 concerns.

A lawsuit filed by top Democratic legislative leaders challenging nominations for the Independent Redistrict Commission has no merit and should be thrown out, attorneys for the panel that crafted the nominations said Wednesday.

Amid a pandemic that has prompted some teachers to leave their profession, Arizonans are considering a proposal to raise taxes for high earners to help schools pay for salary increases and hire more staff.

U.S. Senate hopeful Mark Kelly is going to court over uncorroborated claims by a web site that he dressed up as Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler for a 1985 party at the Merchant Marine Academy.

Thanks to the United States Marshal’s Service’s Violent Offender Task Force, the reward for information that leads to the arrest of Robert David Pearsall III is now $8,000.

There have been 10 new cases of COVID-19 in Camp Verde announced over the past two days.

Here are some events and other announcements about things happening in the Verde Valley.

A Sedona man and a teenage boy were injured after a Tuesday evening shooting at a convenience store, according to a release from the Camp Verde Marshal’s office.

The former director of the Department of Economic Security is dropping the libel lawsuit he filed against the state after he was fired.

With the governor’s limit on large public gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic, Verde Valley leaders and others who typically coordinate Halloween events have made adjustments.

The positive news comes as the U.S. set a daily record of over 85,000 new cases of COVID on Friday.

There are no specific restrictions or directives or even discouragement of trick-or-treating by public health officials, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Several people were demonstrating in support for two of the Presidential candidates on Cottonwood’s busiest intersection, State Routes 260 and 89A, Saturday trying to convince the few undecided voters to cast ballots for their candidate.

Northern Arizona Healthcare has pledged to keep its Sedona Emergency Department open for at least five more years.