Additional documents and information regarding the Navajo County Regional Transportation Study, which includes proposed alternate routes around Holbrook, Winslow and Heber, is available online by visiting www.azdot.gov/mpd/systems_planning/navajoco_reg_sats.asp . Broken links to documents on the site have been fixed.
Wildland firefighters spent Monday afternoon containing a 60 acre wildfire near Heber Arizona called the 'Camp Knoll Fire'. The fire, believed to be human caused, is in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near the site of the Rodeo-Chediski fire which burned close to Heber in 2002.
Last month Mother Jones reported that several Navajo families near Gallop, New Mexico, were forced to move due to contamination from years of uranium mining at the Church Rock Uranium Mine.
Wildfires are burning in the White Mountains near Heber, Ariz. Firefighters are battling three separate wildfires there, calling it the "Chevelon Complex" fire.
Navajo County, the City of Holbrook and the City of Winslow are working in conjunction with the Arizona Department of Transportation to hold public meetings on the Central Navajo County Transportation Plan from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14, at the Winslow City Council Chambers, located at 115 E. Second St., and from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on July ...
Photo by Linda Kor This 142-foot wind turbine blade donated by Blattner Energy is now on display on the south side of the entrance to the Navajo County Governmental Complex in Holbrook.
Animal-rights groups in Arizona and nationally are criticizing the decision by Navajo County animal-control officers to shoot and kill more than 50 dogs owned by a man who was in jail for a month in early May and couldn't take care of them.
Euthanizing 55 dogs with guns on a rural Arizona property was the right decision for the circumstances, says the director of public health services for Navajo County.
Caryl Bailey Holden, 96, passed away, Thursday, June 18, at his home in Heber. He was born on February 23, 1913, in Rochester, N.Y., the son of the late Arthur Caryl and Annie Jean Holden.
The body of the 51-year-old man who went missing in January while on an ATV ride was found at Chevelon Canyon Lake near Heber Saturday, according to the Coconino County Sheriff's Office.