When a group of Arizona Conservation Corps workers were performing trail maintenance in upper Oak Creek Canyon last month, they came upon a rare sight next to an unofficial trail: Five olive gray snakes with faint reddish spots intertwined...
On April 20, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated 298,845 acres across seven Western states as critical habitat for the western yellow-billed cuckoo. The designation includes several rivers and streams in the Verde Valley, including Oak Creek, the...
Steve King, the former Cottonwood-Oak Creek School District superintendent, started his new job as Yavapai County school superintendent at...
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