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A candidate for Flagstaff Mayor stepped down Thursday after admitting to falsifying signatures on his nomination form. Victor Varela announced on the KAFF News Facebook page that he pulled out of the election as he remains under investigation by the Arizona Attorney General’s office. Varela said “I am so sorry. I am dropping out. IFull Story

Governor Ducey gave an update on the COVID-19 pandemic Thursday afternoon. He told the media things look better today than they did ten days ago, but there’s a long way to go. Ducey announced a new executive order that would limit dine-in service at restaurants to “less than 50-percent capacity.” He also says there willFull Story

Cottonwood Police, along with help from their K9 “Kratos,” seized over three pounds of black tar heroin during a traffic stop Wednesday afternoon. Officers were conducting interdiction operations in the area and pulled over a 1999 Chevy Silverado at around 2:39 p.m. in the area of I-17 and State Route 169. Police arrested 35-year-old FidelFull Story

The Fourth Street Bridge in Flagstaff will be closed from July 17th through August 3rd for the ongoing bridge replacement project. ADOT says even though the bridge will be off-limits to vehicles, pedestrians, bicyclists and emergency vehicles will still have access to the crossing. During this time, both directions of Interstate-40 will be narrowed toFull Story

The National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat Warning for parts of Northern Arizona for Saturday through Monday. The warning is in effect from 10 a.m. Saturday through 8 p.m. Monday for areas below 45-hundred feet. The warning includes Cottonwood, Camp Verde and other lower elevations of Yavapai County. Forecasters say extreme heat willFull Story

A new development went before the Flagstaff Planning and Zoning Commission last night. Developers are looking for a zone change of around 14 acres of the property from medium density residential to highway commercial on the northwest corner of Fourth Street and Butler Avenue in Flagstaff. The mixed-use development known as The Elkwood Flagstaff ApartmentsFull Story

Day Nine of the “Catch 22” program focuses on the search for a robbery suspect in Camp Verde in 2014, who has skipped out on his probation. Yavapai County Sheriff’s officials say sometime between February and June of 2014, then 19-year-old Austin Hanson broke into a residence in the 18-hundred block of Long Rifle RoadFull Story

Prescott Fire crews tended to a tractor trailer fire Wednesday. The fire was reported at around 1 p.m. in the 39-hundred block of Willow Creek Road in Prescott. When the first units arrived, they found a semi-truck connected to what appeared to be a roll-off dumpster trailer, with the cab on fire. Crews were concernedFull Story

U.S. Marshals have arrested “Catch 22” Day Seven suspect Jared Neil Kelly in Flagstaff. In the early evening of January 21st, 2019, the 39-year-old Kelly was driving in the area of South State Route 260 and East Prairie Lane in Cottonwood. It was then when he collided with the rear end of another vehicle thatFull Story

Flagstaff Police are investigating a fire that apparently was started by someone throwing a “Molotov cocktail.” Officers responded to an area behind the Summit Park Condominiums at 14-hundred block of North Fourth Street at around 2:10 a.m. Wednesday morning on reports of a fire in the area. Upon arrival, officers located a large pine treeFull Story