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Gas prices are down slightly across Arizona this week. Triple-A Arizona says prices fell about a half-cent to $2.34 a gallon. In Flagstaff, gas was down almost two cents a gallon from last week to $2.40 a gallon this week. Some stations are selling gas for $2.33 and lower. In Prescott, gas was unchanged, sittingFull Story

A man who made a bomb threat to law enforcement in Yavapai County has been arrested in Colorado. Yavapai County Sheriff’s officials say in the mid-afternoon hours of July 26th, an unidentified man called the dispatch center and said “there is a bomb in the building” and hung up. Due to the broad, nondescript natureFull Story

This is a list of election results from Tuesday’s primary election. Updated at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday Flagstaff Mayor: (Two candidates advance to the general) Paul Deasy: 4,173 37% Charlie Odegaard: 3,659 32% Jamie Whelan: 3,225 29% Flagstaff Proposition 434: UNS Gas To Continue As The City’s Gas Provider At A 2% Fee, Which Is TheFull Story

President Trump signed the “Great American Outdoors Act,” which is a bipartisan conservation act that funds the Land and Water Conservation Fund and addresses the maintenance backlog facing America’s parks and public lands. Trump says the Act “provides 900-million dollars a year in guaranteed funding to the Land and Water Conservation Fund so that allFull Story

The Yavapai County Fair has announced the fair has been canceled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Yavapai Fair Foundation said over the past few months they had been working on ways to safely hold the fair, but in the end they couldn’t make it work. Even though the fair is canceled, theFull Story

The average price of gas in Arizona is down almost a cent this week. Triple-A Arizona says the average price of gas is $2.34 a gallon. In Flagstaff, the average price of gas is up about a half-cent to $2.42 a gallon. Some stations are selling gas for $2.35 a gallon and lower. In Prescott,Full Story

Flagstaff tied a record high Thursday that was set 77 years ago. The National Weather Service says the high topped out at 92 degrees at Flagstaff Pulliam Airport, which ties the previous high of 92 set in 1943. A new record high was set in Winslow at 105 degrees and it was 101 at PrescottFull Story

Two Prescott men were recently arrested in connection with drug sales, with one man also involved with child sex trafficking. Yavapai County Sheriff’s deputies contacted 47-year-old John McVeigh back on June 9th during a traffic stop on Enterprise Way and State Route 69. During the stop, deputies found five grams of heroin, three grams ofFull Story

Free drive-thru testing for COVID-19 is coming to Yavapai County every Saturday in August, starting this week. Spectrum Healthcare Group is hosting the events. If you have symptoms of the coronavirus, which include fever, fatigue, difficulty breathing, cough, chills, headache, sore throat and runny nose, you need to get a test. Health officials say youFull Story

Gas prices fell about a cent on average this week in Arizona. Triple-A Arizona says the average price of gas fell to $2.35 a gallon, which is down from $2.36 last week. In Flagstaff, the average price of gas was up a cent-and-a-half from last week to $2.43 a gallon. In Prescott, the average priceFull Story