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Third- and fourth-graders warmed the hearts of audience members during the Julia Randall Elementary School Holiday Concert at Payson High School.

It was a great showing for 13-year-old Sedona resident Carlos Lattanzi as Lattanzi tore up the pool last weekend at the IMX Extreme. Lattanzi placed first in four separate 200-yard events including the backstroke, individual medley, breaststroke and butterfly. “The…

On Oct. 24, Sedona Red Rock High School senior Cody Kirkham and member of the St. John Vianney Catholic Parish, won his first ever Overall Arizona State Championship in the Bordertown Championship for shooting. While Kirkham had won two U.S.…

It’s been almost a year since Ronda Sharp began her transition from Concho Elementary School to Sequoia Village School (SVS) in Linden. She has big shoes to fill after the retirement of Principal Mindy Savoia but she’s “all in” and…

Last Wednesday, Sequoia Village School experienced its second school threat incident in one week.

Even with modern technology, it’s nearly impossible to find the homemade boxing gym identified by a tattered wooden sign that reads, “Damon-Bahe Boxing Gym.” In and around this small town on the Navajo Reservation, house numbers rarely exist. And Google…

Prescott High School will have a new $2 million track and artificial turf field as of next fall. It, too, is likely to have all new stadium lighting and bleacher safety rails.

"Overdoses are preventable, no one has to die from an overdose.” So says Dusti Yamaguchi, coordinator of the Kingman Harm Reduction Program through Sonoran Prevention Works. Sonoran is the largest distributor of naloxone, used for reversing opioid overdoses, in the…

A new study from the University of Arizona suggests young women view the future through the changing role of men in society. UA psychology professor Alyssa Croft asked single female college students in the United States and Canada to look…

The number of middle- and high-school students using e-cigarettes has increased at an alarming rate over the past two years.

A group of social workers, counselors and teachers are moving to form an East Valley suicide prevention coalition in response to the growing number of teen suicides in the region. Ted Huntington, community programs manager for the Chandler Coalition on…

For inspiration and examples of success, the list of female leaders at Diné College includes Maggie George, Marie Etsitty Nez and Geraldine Garrity, according to a Diné College news release. George was president of Diné College from 2011 to 2015.…

For over 25 years students from Saguaro High School have been participating in the Holiday Buddy program at David Crockett Elementary, located in inner-city Phoenix on 36th and Van Buren streets. The Saguaro choir, orchestra and student government students will…

Cave Creek Unified School District announced its newest National Board Certified Teachers. The district’s National Board Certified Teacher Mr. Brian Rinderknect, who is a fifth grade teacher at Lone Mountain Elementary School, Middle Child Generalist; and a renewal of NBCT…

Despite a series of hurdles facing the school district in the past year including the arrests of two former teachers, members of the the Central Arizona Valley Institute of Technolo…