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Gov. Katie Hobbs is closely monitoring flooding and has directed state resources to Oak Creek and other affected areas as DPS air rescue crews perform rooftop evacuations, a helicopter rescues residents, ADOT clears debris from roads, and at least 19 homes near Oak Creek were evacuated.

Heavy flooding on Sunday, Nov.

1 forced closures of many downtown streets and roads around the NAU campus, including Beaver, Leroux, San Francisco, Butler and streets south of Butler, and motorists were urged to avoid the area and use alternate routes for now.

Flagstaff Police responded at 2:05 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

1 to flooding on Milton Road and are conducting traffic control in multiple spots (between Butler and Route 66).

The Stuff the Bus food drive will collect nonperishable donations on Sunday, Nov.

7 at the Safeway on South Plaza Way and the Safeway on East Cedar Avenue, and organizers are asking volunteers to help with collection shifts that day.

Longtime Southside homeowner Yvonne Hammerle says recent storms caused unprecedented backyard flooding on South W.C.

Wiles Drive (she bought the house in 2012).

Women Empowering Northern Arizona has surpassed $500,000 in donations to Flagstaff-area and northern Arizona nonprofits since the group's founding 12 years ago.

Downtown Flagstaff's Weatherford and Monte Vista hotels are known for alleged hauntings, and Monte Vista advertises five haunted rooms including Room 306; a paranormal investigator stayed in Room 305 this week but reported no evidence.

Flagstaff City Council voted unanimously to approve a $5,000 donation from the Council Initiative Fund to the Paul Oltrogge memorial fund at its meeting.