CenturyLink advised the Cottonwood emergency dispatch center just before noon on Monday, Dec. 28, that approximately 175 landlines in the Verde Valley area are currently unable to call 911 due to technical issues. If residents are experiencing an emergency,...
Updated on Oct. 1
On Monday, Sept. 28, at 4:45 p.m., the Cottonwood Police Department sent out a memo announcing that the 911 connection for the area was down, as well as the 911 connection throughout Yavapai County and Flagstaff.
“If...
Cottonwood Police Cmdr. Jody Makuch was killed in an off-duty motorcycle crash Sept. 7.
At 2:39 p.m., 41-year-old Jason Howard Engel, of Camp Verde, was driving a sport utility vehicle southbound on State Route 89A at Willard Street, within city...
Many have seen scraggly desiccated corpses of prickly pear cacti while out on a hike or pruning fence lines,...
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