
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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.
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