Black Canyon City, AZ

10/14 Tonto National Forest fuels specialists will begin a chipping and thinning operation along Forest Service Roads 24, 269 and 16 on the Cave Creek Ranger District, starting tomorrow and continuing through September of next year. The treatment area is west of the Verde River and east of I-17, about 4-to-5-miles east of New River, Black Canyon City, and north of Cave Creek. Crews will remove juniper trees and chaparral brush on 3,942-acres. Officials say this is just part 1 of the project. The

10/12 YCSO says last month they responded to 3-times more vicious animal calls than September of last year. In addition, officials say so far this year, dog at large citations have almost reached the number of citations issued for all of last year. YCSO say Animal Control has been responding to calls about dogs harming people, livestock and other dogs. In one case, a Black Canyon City man was charged 42-times over 9-different incidents this summer in which his dogs repeatedly got loose and attac