The Bisbee City Council approved a short-term Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Southeastern Arizona Governments Organization (SEAGO) to provide technical assistance in preparing the city’s 2026 federal budget request for the grants to operate the city bus. Bisbee Public Works Director Matt Gurney said the short-term MOU was necessary in order to get assistance with…
A 911 call about a woman being held hostage at gun point Tuesday night led to a man being taken in to custody. Bisbee Police, Cochise County Sheriff’s Deputies and Border Patrol agents all responded to Hannon Ranch Lane off of Highway 80 around 7:40 p.m. after a woman called to report she had been…
An unprovoked attack Friday led to a Bisbee man being treated at Copper Queen Hospital for injuries after man jumped on his car then attacked him near the Busy Bee parking lot.An unprovoked attack Friday led to a Bisbee man being treated at Copper Queen Hospital for injuries after man jumped on his car then…
For many years, the American Legion Post #16 in Bisbee waited for the right space to call their new home after they shut their doors on their original Subway Street location. Over the past three years, they have transformed a former pizza restaurant into a canteen and meeting place for the members as well as…
Based on the June 2025 city financial notes the visitor center has gone over budget by more than $50,000 for fiscal year 2024/25 causing the city to have to cover the overages from another department in order to meet the bottom-line budget numbers legally allowed. Bisbee Finance Director Keri Bagley said the city cannot use…
After the sudden departure of the former Bisbee High School (BHS) principal the district wanted to move quickly to find a replacement for the 2025/26 school year. In total nine applications applied for the principal position, from the selection of applicants six were selected for the interview process with five actuality taking part in interviews…
The Bisbee Bloomers, an all-volunteer organization dedicated to keeping the streets of Bisbee beautiful, are once again geared up to show off some of the city’s prettiest gardens. The annual event has been taking place since 2000, when a group of five local people (Carole Beauchamp, Fred Miller, Margaret Hartnett, Jan Munsey and Jean Beuchle)…
Robert “Bobby” Wilson, a Pima County Republican Party Executive Committee Member, has issued a $10 million dollar notice of claim (NOC) to Cochise County over what he claims are “defamatory and criminally libel text messages” sent by Cochise County Supervisor Frank Antenori to the Pima County Republican Chairman, Kathleen Winn. According to information received from…
The Cochise County Board of Supervisors (BOS) voted last week to adopt a resolution regarding the establishment of the Cochise County Jail District. Resolution 25-24, adopted by BOS by unanimous vote, orders the continuation of the jail district continued establishment contingent upon voter approval of the .05 percent excise tax at the November 4, 2025,…
There are many times in life when its events come full circle. That is what has happened to Bisbee native Annie Graeme Larkin, director of Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum (BM&HM), on a few occasions during her time at the museum. After having an early start as an intern in the early 2000s, cataloging the…
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