It’s Friday! Check out this afternoon’s A&E Blast for fun things to do this weekend. In the meantime, here’s some local news to get your day and weekend started.

Residents in Coolidge will soon have some new housing options. The Coolidge Planning and Zoning Commission recently approved the site maps for a new housing project. Get all the details in Coolidge Reporter Michael Maresh’s story.

Our Eloy Reporter David Church got the chance to sit down with Eloy’s Santa Cruz High School Principal Oranté Jenkins and looks back over his 15 years of service before Jenkins leaves the district.

Also, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its seasonal outlook on Thursday. See if and when the decades-long megadrought will end in the West.