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PRESCOTT, Ariz. - For the first time in recent memory, Arizona’s Christmas City will not host much of its traditional slate of holiday parades and music events in 2020.

PHOENIX, Ariz. - Three weeks after the election and nearly a week after all votes were tallied, Gov. Doug Ducey acknowledged Nov. 24, that Joe Biden won the race for president in Arizona and is entitled to the state’s 11 electoral votes.

PRESCOTT, Ariz. - Every year, the Prescott Valley Chamber of Commerce hosts the Valley of Lights — a mile-long display — and this year will be no different, despite the pandemic.

PHOENIX (AP) — With Arizona hospitals admitting increasing numbers of COVID-19 patients, state health officials said Wednesday that they suspended some transfers of patients from other states.

Part of Lynx Lake will be closed starting next month to provide protection to nesting bald eagles, according to Prescott National Forest officials.

PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has awarded a contract to a Scottsdale company to design and build a new helicopter base in northern Gila County to support firefighting activities.

PRESCOTT, Ariz. —MatForce Executive Director Merilee Fowler wants people to stop dying from illegal fentanyl overdoses.

PHOENIX (AP) — With Thanksgiving and the arrival of winter visitors drawing near, Gov. Doug Ducey announced new efforts to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 from travelers and assist Arizonans most affected by the disease.

WASHINGTON — Coconino County Supervisor Art Babbott urged senators Wednesday to pass a bill that would let limbs and trees left over from forest maintenance be burned for renewable energy.

Cooking chickens in a Yellowstone hot spring landed three people in hot water.

Visitors to Lees Ferry and Lake Powell are advised annual winter season changes in operations are occurring.

The U.S. Department of the Interior has accepted a proposal from two Maine lawmakers to make admission to national parks free for Gold Star families.

PHOENIX — Arizona on Nov. 19 reported 4,123 additional known COVID-19 cases, the most in a single day since July.

PHOENIX, Ariz. - Gov. Doug Ducey declined Nov. 18 to impose new restrictions or mandates on individuals even as his own health chief warned of an increasing number of Arizonans becoming infected with COVID-19.

Pfizer said Nov. 18 that new test results show its coronavirus vaccine is 95% effective, is safe and also protects older people most at risk of dying — the last data needed to seek emergency use of limited shot supplies as the catastrophic outbreak worsens across the globe.

PRESCOTT, Ariz. - Thirty-four states and the District of Columbia require people to wear face coverings in public to curb the spread of COVID-19. Arizona is one of only 15 states without a mask mandate.

On Nov. 3, voters in Arizona approved Proposition 207, an initiative that decriminalized personal possession and use of marijuana in an amount less than 1 ounce and limits personal cultivation of marijuana by a person 21 and older.

PRESCOTT, Ariz. - On Tuesday, Nov. 2, an 80-year-old Prescott Valley man received a phone call reporting his grandson had been arrested and $9,000 in cash was needed to bail the boy out of jail.

PHOENIX (AP) — Democrat Mark Kelly has been assigned temporary office space in Washington and has named a transition team as he awaits formal swearing in as a U.S. senator representing Arizona.

PHOENIX (AP) — With Arizona reporting a daily average of 1,900 new COVID-19 cases over the past week, Gov. Doug Ducey has urged residents to be careful amid the surging coronavirus outbreak.

PHOENIX (AP) — The prosecutor's office in Arizona's most populous county announced Monday that all pending cases for possessing an ounce or less of marijuana will be dismissed after the state's voters approved a legalization measure.

Internet access, health care and basic necessities like running water and electricity within Indigenous communities have long been at the center of congressional debates.

No one has yet been charged with providing the drugs that caused the fatal overdose.

The tribe does not have a regulatory system for industrial hemp on the vast reservation that spans parts of Utah, New Mexico and Arizona.

VILLAGE OF OAK CREEK, Ariz. (AP) — A Yavapai County Sheriff's deputy has shot an armed person in the Village of Oak Creek, according to authorities.