Yavapai County

Beginning Monday, the tribe is extending its stay-at-home order with a revised nightly curfew to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Beginning January 25, Navajo Nation residents will be required to stay home 24 hours a day, with the exception of essential workers, or anyone who needs to get food or medicine.

The National Weather Service said the warning for cold and wet weather will be in effect from 8 p.m. Friday until 5 p.m. Sunday at about 6000 feet as snow levels drop Friday night. Periods of snowfall are expected through Sunday.

A Yavapai County man is dead after deputies say he threatened to kill them and they fired several shots at him on Jan. 15.

Deputies say the driver, a 63-year-old resident of Prescott, had slurred speech, had a hard time moving around, and was unable to remember what happened.

Officials with the Navajo Nation say they are looking for more vaccines to protect their people against COVID-19. So far, they have administered 80% of the 26,000 doses they have received.

Yavapai County Sheriff's Office deputies and their K9 partners seized over 130 pounds of marijuana during traffic stops on Interstate 40 near Ash Fork.

Authorities say they tied Walter Mitchell to the body parts that included legs, arms, and heads through tags and medical gauze that were found with the remains outside Prescott in late December.

A Prescott Valley woman is accused of driving drunk and swerving into the lane of a police officer on Jan. 12.

Authorities say they tied Walter Mitchell to the body parts that included limbs and severed heads through tags and medical gauze that were found along with the remains.

Yavapai County officials have identified human remains found near Rimrock as those of 31-year-old Shane Rollman, a California man who had been missing since September.

Officials say the suspect forced their way into the main gate at Cottonwood Airport and made off with a large box trailer that contained the plane. 

Prosecutors say 62-year-old Mark Allen Whittington also was sentenced to five years of intensive probation and 100 hours of community service.

Human remains have been found near Lake Montezuma in north-central Arizona, and officials are trying to determine if they belong to a missing person from California.

The tribe’s Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise said they had to move ahead with the layoffs because of lack of revenue caused by the closures.

An arrest has been made days after human remains were found at two locations near Prescott and police were able to track down the suspect by connecting him to a business he once owned.

Body parts that were possibly being used for medical research were found in Yavapai County, the sheriff's office said.

The Navajo Nation renewed a mandated lockdown requiring all residents to stay home except for emergencies, shopping for essentials like food and medicine or traveling to an essential job. The lockdown is slated to last until Jan. 11.

Tribes across the nation are working to protect elder members who serve as honored links to customs passed from one generation to the next.