featured top story
  • Updated

From Arizona to Oregon and back again seems like a circuitous route to establish a dream … but magical stories always include travel to fulfill a quest, and Austen Brown is well on his way to brewing up magic.

featured top story
  • Updated

State Sen. Wendy Rogers stopped in Show Low to visit with some of her White Mountain constituents on Memorial Day. Rogers said the holiday provided a good opportunity to meet with “fellow patriots” in the area.

  • Updated

After conducting multiple classes for students about how to apply for scholarships along with a simplified online process for submitting applications, NPC Friends and Family received 49 applications for the fall 2023 semester. Scholarship winners included 33 continuing students and seven rec…

featured top story
  • Updated

The growl from the engines, the smell of exhaust and the tangible excitement from the crowd made for a fun night at Deuce of Clubs Thunder Raceway’s grand reopening last weekend.

featured top story
  • Updated

A new stage in life, a new diploma … and a new car. On May 25, Show Low High School graduate Mariah Cook learned she won the trifecta in the form of a 2023 Toyota Corolla.

featured top story
  • Updated

After a successful season filled with competition and community outreach, the Cougar Pride Robotics team received some well-deserved recognition from the Show Low school board.

  • Updated

The May 18 meeting of the Show Low Unified School District board opened with a staffer’s attempt to address the “narrative (around) the district’s scores and students’ achievements.”

featured top story

SPRINGERVILLE — The Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests is starting prescribed burns today through June 10, 2023. The following prescribed fires will be initiated if conditions and approvals allow:

featured top story
  • Updated

Blue Ridge High School is on a roll in academics, drama and athletics this year, culiminating with the announcement of the Arizona Interscholastic Association’s Scholar Athlete of the Year awards.

featured top story
  • Updated

After 22 years as the principal of Snowflake High School, Larry Titus is retiring. He leaves behind a remarkable legacy of leadership, inspiration and hope. As one of Arizona’s oldest educational institutions, Snowflake High has flourished under Titus’s guidance.

  • Updated

Last week the Navajo County Board of Supervisors renewed its contract with the state and federal governments to maintain a locked, surveilled and temperature-controlled room to store antidotes to assorted nerve gas agents.

  • Updated

They’re the often invisible team that keeps your community’s infrastructure functional, the bulwark that props up the trappings of civilization, and the town of Pinetop-Lakeside recently acknowledged them: the people in public works.

featured top story
  • Updated

Since 2004, the Scholastic Clay Target Program has been one of the leading drivers in pushing youths from across the country into competitive shooting sports.

featured top story
  • Updated

Online banking has taken a toll on brick-and-mortar services, just as online shopping has carved a deep divot out of physical retail store locations. The COVID-19 pandemic radically altered the way people thought about shopping, and it comes as little surprise that similar effects have rippl…

featured top story
  • Updated

SNOWFLAKE — Lots of focus is given to rescue animals such as border collies or cats, but at least one organization in Snowflake is dedicated to helping somewhat larger four-footed furry friends.

featured top story
  • Updated

Blue Ridge High School’s graduation started off with a dark sky and the threat of rain looming in the distance Friday night, and thunder sounded throughout the ceremony — but you can’t keep a good person or class down.

featured top story
  • Updated

With the health of one of their founders declining, friends and volunteers at Walking Down Ranch and Veterans Village in Pinetop-Lakeside are heartbroken yet determined to carry on her legacy.

  • Updated

NPC’s 2023 Student Art Show showcased a selection of unique works created by NPC students. The exhibit closed with an awards ceremony held at the Talon Gallery on May 5. Student participants, awardees and NPC staff gathered to express their admiration for the art and the students who created it.

  • Updated

The painstakingly developed capacity to thin the forest and save communities like Show Low and Payson from wildfire is dangling by a long, thin, costly thread, say the loggers, mill operators and biomass burners who hold the key to staving off a disaster.

featured top story
  • Updated

You don’t need a crystal ball or a time machine to catch a glimpse of the future. Sometimes, all you need is a day in school — such as Show Low Junior High school, which held a career day on Tuesday.

featured top story
  • Updated

It’s a common enough complaint that hearing it causes a sigh and a roll of the eyes. “Kids today. They don’t want to do anything, they don’t want to be anything, they have no ambition and they’d just as soon be lazy as do any actual work.”

We're always interested in hearing about news in our community. Let us know what's going on!