Soldier’s Best Friend, an Arizona nonprofit, trains dogs to work with veterans with PTSD – or a combat-related traumatic brain injury – as service dogs. The organization either pairs the veteran with a dog adopted from a local shelter, or they train a dog already owned by the veteran. Read more» 
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True West Magazine’s seventh annual ranking of Old West towns across the country, did not include Tombstone in the Top 10, while Prescott was named No. 1. Read more» 1
The U.S. Forest Service unveiled new planning rules Thursday that it said will emphasize the protection of forest and watersheds while maintaining and creating forest-industry jobs. Read more»
With a new Senate president and a new House speaker, Arizona's rural lawmakers are hoping for a shift in focus from Tucson and Phoenix to more concern over the state's more sparsely populated communities. Read more»
Arizona has depleted its groundwater over the past 70 years enough to fill Lake Powell nearly three times, according to the first federal study of the state’s groundwater since the 1980s. Read more»
As part of Arizona's centennial celebrations, 17 of the state's 22 American Indian tribes created a native village at the Best Fest in Prescott. The festival will later move to Tucson and Phoenix, the other two territorial capitals. Read more»
Economic growth in Arizona’s metropolitan areas was a fraction of the national growth rate for metro areas in 2010, according to figures released Tuesday. No metro area in Arizona grew more than 0.7 percent, and two regions – Yuma and Prescott – actually saw GDP shrink. Read more»
The state’s centennial effort hits high gear this week with the first Arizona Best Fest, a free street festival that runs from Friday through Sunday in Prescott and later will visit Tucson and Phoenix, the other two territorial capitals. Read more» 1
In 2005, demand for mantlepieces, timbers and decorative wood braces had Joe Agosta's wood mill turning away business. Now a staff of eight has shrunk to three. Across Arizona, anyone working in the wood business, from small mills like Agosta's to larger lumberyards, has seen business drop because of the housing market collapse. Read more»
Prescott High School this year ordered all 1,850 of its students to wear identification badges at all times when on campus. It just didn't say how. A few students taped them to their foreheads or made them into T-shirts and placards to protest the new policy. Read more»
A Prescott radio host embroiled in a controversy over an elementary school environmental mural is off the air, while the school reversed a decision to lighten the faces of students depicted in the mural. Read more» 9
Artists say Prescott officials have asked them to lighten the faces on children depicted in a school mural. Read more» 6
