Silver Belt | Gila Monsters place third in underwater robotics competition

Photo courtesy The Gila Monsters 4-H underwater robot team. From left: Coach Toni Deanda Solberg, Lily Meister, Cary Quintana, Coach David Flores, Xavier Hansen and Aston Martin. Updated: 3 days ago / Posted: May 23, 2023 On Saturday, May 6, four Gila County teams competed in the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Remotely Operated Vehicle […]

Brilliant Ways to Fight Allergens This Season

(StatePoint) During allergy season, it’s imperative to have a safe place away from sneezing and wheezing-causing substances. While you can’t completely control your environment in the great outdoors, you can take steps to reduce allergens and feel your best at home. fresh and cool air: With the right air conditioning unit, you can breathe better […]

New Mexico shooting victims mourned by their children, 64 grandchildren

Santa Fe, New Mexico – Gwendolyn Dean Schofield wanted to live to be 100 and she was almost 100. But on May 15, in what appeared to be one last act of kindness, Scofield and her daughter pulled over in a residential neighborhood in Farmington, New Mexico, to help a woman who had been shot […]

Wind power line work in New Mexico starts in summer after feds approve

A renewable energy transmission line in southern New Mexico, connecting wind farms to western markets in Arizona and California, received federal approval on Thursday and is expected to begin construction this summer. The Sanzia Transmission Project will transport up to 3,000 megawatts of electricity generated by wind farms in Lincoln, Torrance, and San Miguel counties […]

Preserving the Cowboy Way of Life

Macy Michaels grew up raising a variety of animals on her family’s ranch in Wilcox, Arizona, and recognizes the serious impact climate change is having on ranchers and people living in rural areas of the American West. The statewide water outage has significantly increased the price of irrigation and fodder, as well as greatly uncertain […]

Flagstaff police help black bear safely cross I-40

gift this article Share this Article Paywall Free. On Friday morning, Flagstaff police rescued a large, shaggy Coconino County resident, Asian Black Bear, from crossing Interstate 40. Just before 5:30 a.m., the animal attempted to cross the highway near the Fourth Avenue Bridge. Flagstaff Police said the bear was stranded on the median between the […]

Taxpayers will wind up paying $273 million in Joe Arpaio’s racial profiling case

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced on January 9, 2013, a newly launched program aimed at providing safety around schools in Anthem, Arizona, USA. Photo credit: Laura Segall/REUTERS PHOENIX (AP) — Taxpayers on the Phoenix Subway are reaching a milestone in economic pain following the 2013 racial profiling ruling against former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration […]

Mohave County receives grant for rural highway technology | Local News Stories

KINGMAN — Thanks to a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, some country roads in the nation’s fifth-largest geographical county will soon become safer ‘smart highways’ . The county officially received news on Thursday that it had won an Advanced Traffic Technology and Innovation Program Fund to install high-tech vehicle-to-infrastructure traffic control […]