PAYSON – A 15-year drought threatens to throw large swaths of the Southwest into a water shortage. California cities are now under mandated water cutbacks. Arizona may see some of its farming ...

As Arizona utility companies make aggressive plans to mitigate wildfire risks, many met in Payson to update a state ...

PAYSON — Smoke billowed from Diamond ... could be an active fire season as drought creeps back across Arizona after a relatively wet 2023. Fire lookout Dee Carstensen watched the operation ...

More than 60 additional personnel were on-site to battle the Horton Fire burning over 1,000 acres of forest on the Mogollon Rim near Payson as containment slowed on Tuesday. Officials with the ...

The Horton Fire has scorched nearly 1,900 acres of forest along the Mogollon Rim, northeast of Payson, as of Saturday ... from public view Salmon sold at Arizona grocery stores is being recalled.