2-day work session adds staff, student camps, spending at school campuses Sedona City Council entered its two-day budget work session on April 22 with City Manager Anette Spickard's proposed $94.7 million budget for fiscal year 2026-27, and emerged at the...

Consultants working to develop first strategic plan for police The Center for Public Safety Management, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm hired by the city of Sedona to draft a strategic plan for the Sedona Police Department held a public listening...

During its Dec. 9 meeting the Sedona City Council unanimously approved the locations for the first of its three new emergency sirens to be installed in Uptown. One will be on the northeast corner of the Uptown Parking Garage at...

The Sedona Police Department removed a policy on Oct. 7 that appeared to condone the use of firing warning shots by its officers as a means to gain compliance from suspects. It’s a tactic described by Judicial Watch Southwest Projects...

The Sedona Police Department welcomed its new commander of special operations and investigations, Heather Penner, in a pinning ceremony on Monday, Oct. 20. Her husband, Steve, who’s also had a lifetime career of law enforcement and retired a few years...