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TweetPinShareJon Johnson Photo/Gila Herald: Safford Vice Mayor Richard Ortega holds the door for volunteers bringing election ballots to the Graham County Election department at the General Services Building to be …
Election results are in! Read More
TweetPinShareDeath toll now at 12 for the county By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – On Tuesday, the Graham County Department of Health and Human Services (GCDHHS) announced one additional death …
Another elderly Safford resident dies from COVID-19 Read More
TweetPinSharePhoto of juvenile justice facility courtesy of Pima County: Hispanic youth are disproportionately represented in the justice system, according to existing statistics from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency …
Experts: Latino youth ‘invisible’ in juvenile justice data Read More
TweetPinShareContributed Article/Courtesy U.S. Customs and Border Protection YUMA – U.S. Customs and Border Protection is saddened to report the death of a 33-year-old man from Mexico on Saturday afternoon in a local Yuma, …
Man dies after falling off border wall near Yuma Read More TweetPinShareDeath toll now at 11 for the county By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – On Sunday, the Graham County Department of Health and Human Services (GCDHHS) announced two more deaths …
Graham County announces two additional deaths from COVID-19 Read More
TweetPinShareRaymundo Frasquillo File Photo/Gila Herald: A young girl secures her mask with loops over her ears. If schools are allowed to open to in-school learning Aug. 17, with the increase …
Graham County passes 500 total COVID-19 positive tests Read More TweetPinShareTwenty seven new positive tests put county at 492 total By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – On Friday, Graham County had the dubious achievement of surpassing La Paz County for …
Graham County surpasses La Paz County for positive COVID-19 tests Read More
TweetPinSharePhoto By Dawn Endico/Creative Commons: State health officials caution that numbers are still preliminary, but with more than 3,300 deaths linked to COVID-19 in the six months since the first …
COVID-19 on pace to become the third-leading cause of death in Arizona this year Read More
TweetPinSharePhoto Courtesy Friends of Arizona Joshua Tree Forest: Joshua trees at sunset in the Arizona Joshua Tree Forest in 2017. By Haley Lorenzen/Cronkite News PHOENIX – Named for the biblical …
Proposal to protect Joshua trees from climate change proves divisive Read More TweetPinShareBy Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – For the second day in a row, another Graham County resident has died due to complications from COVID-19. The new death brings Graham County’s …
Graham County records third COVID-19 death in the last two days Read More