More than 2,000 feet above where the East Verde River crosses State Route 87 north of Payson, snowmelt and rainwater that will eventually drain into Arizona’s rivers and streams begins with a journey ...

Three major Arizona wildfires burned across metro Phoenix on Thursday night, and two more fires northeast of the Valley were burning near high-country communities. The five fires had engulfed more ...

Few states offer such diverse topography as Arizona. In some ways it is the story of desert and mountains, the low and high, but it is more complicated than that. We have canyons with few peers, deep ...

A medical examiner will determine the cause of death for a hiker found dead on a trail in Payson, Arizona, police said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A hiker stumbled upon a 74-year-old man’s body on a ...

Two small communities in east-central Arizona have been evacuated because of a wildfire that continues to grow. Spokesman Mike Reichling of the team managing the fire burning approximately 15 miles ...

PAYSON — Smoke billowed from Diamond Rim on the Tonto National Forest on Monday afternoon as a helicopter bobbed along overhead, dropping tiny fireballs to stoke flames on the ground. The federally ...

Parts of Indiana and Arizona face "unhealthy" air quality on Friday morning, an AirNow map shows.