Douglas, AZ

COCHISE COUNTY, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Flooding caused by storm runoff forced road closures in Cochise County Monday, June 27. Davis Road was reopened shortly before 9 a.m., according to the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office. Frontier Road remains closed from Davis Road to Double Adobe, east of Bisbee....

The U.S. reported over 665,000 new cases of coronavirus over the seven days ending June 26, bringing the total count to more than 85.6 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. There have been more than 1,005,000 COVID-19-related deaths — the highest death toll of any country. New cases continue to rise, albeit at a slowing rate. […]

Lee en español A migrant was stabbed to death by a Customs and Border Protection agent in Douglas in late May, a Pima County medical examiner's autopsy report found.  Abigail Román Aguilar, 32, a Mexican immigrant from the state of Chiapas, died on May 24 after a "use of force incident" involving an agent, the...

Cochise County property taxpayers are advised of proposed property tax increases and notified of Truth in Taxation Hearings being held on July 12 at 10:00 a.m. at the Board of Supervisors Hearing Room in Bisbee. Each year, the Board of Supervisors meet to discuss and adopt Cochise County’s tentative budget....

Several years ago, I encountered a man named Walter Swan at his One Book Bookstore in Bisbee, Arizona. (Google him!) Copies of his book, "Me 'n Henry," filled the shelves in this small quaint shop. After an interesting conversation with Mr. Swan, he shared his "rules for life" and gave me the small poster hanging on the wall. Those rules hung in my classroom until the day I retired.

In one of Arizona's most famous small towns, where cowboys and hippies coexist, official pride celebrations have returned to Bisbee after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19 restrictions.  In 2020, the event took place virtually, and last year, the organizer, Bisbee Pride Inc., a nonprofit organization, could not obtain the necessary permits. Instead, the organizers...