Flagstaff News

Northern Arizona University has announced a special scholarship for Coconino County high school students. County seniors who enroll at NAU will receive a $1,000 scholarship from the university. The award is for two years and can be used for tuition, campus housing or meals. Attending high school and graduating in the county is the onlyFull Story

NAU will be holding fall commencement ceremonies Friday in the Skydome. There will be two ceremonies held that day. The first will be at 10 a.m. with graduates from the College of Education, College of the Environment, Forestry and Natural Sciences, the College of Engineering, Informatics and Applied Sciences and the W.A. Franke College ofFull Story

The Flagstaff City Council will discuss airport parking at tonight’s work session. The Flagstaff Airport has seen a tremendous increase of traffic due to an added route to Dallas-Fort Worth on American Airlines and a United Airlines route to Denver. With the new routes the airport went from 177 passengers daily to just over 400Full Story

There have two weather-related deaths recently in Flagstaff. Police say the first death was last Thursday on the five-thousand block of North Highway 89. Officers were called to the scene at around 12:35 p.m. where a man was found unresponsive located in an alleyway between two brick walls sitting on a couch with snow coveringFull Story

The Mingus Marauders will reportedly have a new football coach next season. The “Verde News” reports the Mingus Union District chose not to renew the contract of Robert Ortiz after the Marauders went 0-10 this season. In his first season coaching at Mingus in 2018, the Marauders went 9-3 and made it into the 4AFull Story

NAU quarterback Case Cookus has been named a finalist for the Walter Payton Award for the best player in FCS Football. He was named one of four finalists for the award Monday. He will travel to Frisco, Texas for the awards banquet on Friday, January 10th. The Thousand Oaks, California-native won the STATS Freshman ofFull Story

The NAU men’s basketball team was victorious, but the women’s team wasn’t after a double header in the Findlay Toyota Center in Prescott Valley Sunday. The Lumberjacks men’s team led Nebraska-Omaha 45-20 at halftime and held off the Mavericks, winning 73-65. Cameron Shelton led the Jacks with 20 points in the win. Ted McRee addedFull Story

Two people were arrested Friday in connection with burglaries in the Williams area. Coconino County Sheriff’s detectives executed two search warrants, that stemmed from several burglaries reported in the Red Lake and Valle neighborhoods north of Williams between May and November of this year. During the searches, several items were found that had been reportedFull Story

The Flagstaff Eagles boys basketball held off a late surge by Seton Catholic to beat the Sentinals, 59-55 at War Memorial Gymnasium. Both teams committed a lot of fouls in the game with three Sentinals fouling out in the fourth quarter. Nick Sneezy led the Eagles with 25 points, with four three-pointers all in theFull Story

A Texas man was arrested last week for transporting around 30 pounds of marijuana. Yavapai County Sheriff’s deputies pulled over 35-year-old Joshua Garcia for moving violations back on November 25th at around 3:45 p.m. on eastbound Interstate-40 in Ash Fork. While talking to Garcia, the deputy smelled an odor of marijuana coming from his 2007Full Story