Prescott News

The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office, along with city and town police departments, announced the new “text-to-911” service Wednesday. This new technology means all 911 Public Safety Dispatch Centers in Yavapai County are equipped to receive and respond to mobile phone Text-to- 911 messages from our community. These texts will be routed to the appropriate 9-1-1Full Story

Yavapai College is launching a women’s soccer program with play starting in 2021. The Roughriders will compete in the same conference as other Arizona junior colleges. The women’s program will be featured in home and away doubleheaders with the men’s soccer team. Yavapai College expects to have its new head women’s soccer coach on campusFull Story

A Cottonwood man was arrested last week after nearly hitting several people and cars in a parking lot and brandishing a gun at them. Cottonwood Police were called to the Food City parking lot in the 15-hundred block of East State Route 89A at around 11 p.m. Friday. As officers were pulling into the parkingFull Story

Cottonwood Police are looking into a text threat to a student at a Cottonwood prep school Saturday. A parent contacted Cottonwood Police to report her young son received a text message from an unknown person, cautioning him not to go to school at Mountain View Preparatory School on Monday because that person was going toFull Story

Flagstaff is set to have its driest Monsoon on record. The National Weather Service says with no rain expected Wednesday, the last day of the 2020 Monsoon, it will go down as one of the driest rainy seasons on record. Flagstaff received 1.78 inches of rain this Monsoon when normally the city gets 8.31 inchesFull Story

If you haven’t filled out the 2020 U.S. Census, the deadline has changed again. Last week a judge ruled the deadline day would be moved from September 30th to October 31st. However on Monday, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced October 5th as the day to finish up census collecting. If you haven’t filled outFull Story

Authorities are still looking for a kidnapping suspect who is wanted in multiple Arizona counties and now a reward is being offered. Yavapai County Sheriff’s deputies went to a home in Congress last Wednesday at around 8 a.m. regarding a suspect vehicle that was involved in an ongoing trespassing and vehicle theft case. As deputiesFull Story

Numerous law enforcement agencies from around the state, as well as some around the country, are looking at ways to prevent a massive 911 outage that hit yesterday from happening again. Authorities say the outage lasted for about an hour and some emergency calls were rerouted. 911 was out for law enforcement in Yavapai andFull Story

Two brothers were arrested Thursday for passing counterfeit money at several Cottonwood businesses. Cottonwood Police officers were called to a business in the 400-block of South Main Street on a report of a man who tried to pass a fake $100 bill. As an officer was investigating that report, another business in the 500-block ofFull Story

The Creosote Fire closed Interstate-17 north of Camp Verde for hours, and caused the evacuations of residents of Rimrock Friday afternoon. The fire closed I-17 in both directions for about two hours, but eventually reopened. The Creosote Fire burned 124 acres, but no structures were damaged or destroyed. Rimrock residents were given the “Go” orderFull Story