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Yavapai County Phil Bourdon confirmed priorities outlined in a news release sent out last week that details a few items the county will be fighting for at the legislature this year.

There is going to be another spike in positive COVID-19 diagnoses about two weeks after Christmas vacations end. The question, according to one Northern Arizona Healthcare administrator, is how much hospitalization and death will accompany that spike.

The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors for 2021-24 were sworn in Tuesday at a ceremony in Prescott.

Yavapai County continues to be one of Arizona’s “substantial risk” areas for COVID-19 transmissions with 603 new cases reported since Friday.

Another major contractual step for the construction of the new jail facility in Prescott is part of the agenda for the Wednesday, Dec. 16, Yavapai County Board of Supervisors meeting.

On Tuesday, Dec. 8, the Prescott Valley Police Department arrested a Prescott Valley teenager for the Dec. 3 early morning shooting into the occupied home of a Yavapai County Sheriff’s deputy.

With approval of an engineering change for the new Yavapai County Criminal Justice Center project in Prescott this week, the Board of Supervisors appears poised to consider the final contract and guaranteed maximum price later this month.

In the early morning hours of Thursday, Dec. 3, an unidentified person fired multiple rounds into an occupied residence in the 8300 block of East Loos Drive, in Prescott Valley, according to the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office.

Yavapai County Community Health Services Thursday reported 245 new COVID-19 cases and one death in the past day.

Yavapai County Community Health Services Director Leslie Horton has affirmed the decision by Prescott area superintendents to move from in-person instruction to virtual learning through winter break based on COVID-19 impact.

Twenty faculty members at Humboldt Unified School District’s Bradshaw Mountain High School called out sick Monday, Nov. 30, amid COVID-19 spikes they claim are putting students and staff at risk.

During Wednesday morning’s media briefing, Northern Arizona Healthcare leaders talked about what has changed within the past couple of months as coronavirus cases have spiked across the United States, including Arizona.

By the first weeks of December, Yavapai County Community Health Services’ officials expect they will have their first doses of a federally-sanctioned COVID-19 vaccine that can be distributed to priority health care personnel.

Yavapai County and the Verde Valley experienced one of its worst weekends yet for new COVID-19 infections with 218 new cases being reported since Friday, included 101 new cases locally.

The Yavapai Community Health Services and Community Health Center on Commerce Drive in Prescott reopened for business on Monday, Nov. 9.

With eight years of experience behind him, Republican Craig Brown appears to be the only elected incumbent who will remain on the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors come January 2021.

Ballots from more than 80% of registered voters in Yavapai County were already being counted Tuesday night, Nov. 3, and more ballots continued to be processed.

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.

We should not be mining or drilling in Grand Canyon or our National Parks. We also should not be selling our Public Lands.

After the driver tried to ditch nearly 300 fentanyl pills by tossing them from the window of the car, 53-year-old Alex Marshall was arrested on charges that include possession of narcotic drug for sale, possession of narcotic drug and possession of drug paraphernalia.

As work continues on the new jail facility in Prescott, the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors will consider this week whether to give the county facilities director more authority on approving related contracts and agreements.

The Trust for Public Land and the U.S. Forest Service announced the permanent protection of 84 acres on the upper Verde River by adding the land to the Prescott National Forest, according to a release Monday morning.

PRESCOTT – The agenda for Wednesday’s Yavapai County Board of Supervisors’ meeting includes one of the next pieces in the construction of a new jail.

In an effort to tell its own story about the ongoing project to build a new jail in Prescott, Yavapai County has launched a website specifically focusing on the Yavapai County Justice Center.

In a Wednesday morning news release from the office of Gov. Doug Ducey, Yavapai County residents learned the name of the next new Division 1 Superior Court judge.