It's a fall Friday night in the retirement community of Sun Lakes.

Mesa police arrested a 43-year-old suspect less than 10 minutes after a bank robbery Thursday.

Quick thinking and fast acting by staff members at Red Mountain High School averted a large-scale fire Thursday when they put out a burning curtain in the school’s auditorium.

Chandler police are looking for the driver of a white SUV involved in a double hit-and-run that injured a man in a bar parking lot Friday.

Nerdvana: Chandler is the only Arizona city to host the Nintendo Holiday Mall Experience, an interactive event running Nov. 23 through Dec. 20 that lets shoppers take some of the newest video game titles for a spin.

Higley Unified School District Superintendent Denise Birdwell will be reviewed through a revised evaluation Dec. 3 after the governing board approved the new tool Thursday.

The vampire-werewolf-mortal love triangle movie "New Moon" hits the big screen Friday. But a handful of people will see the movie a day early, thanks to class assignments at Mesa's Skyline High School and Gilbert High School.

Ken Brague, a medical salesman with five children in the Queen Creek Unified School District, was named Thursday as the newest member of the district governing board.

Queen Creek residents won't know whether they'll have townwide curbside waste pickup until February. The council on Wednesday asked town staff to explore different options for manure pickup and the possibility of letting individual residents opt out of town trash service. The council voted 5-1 to delay the decision until those questions are answered, with Councilman Jeff Brown voting no.

A 22-year-old farmworker died in a mobile-home fire Friday and her 1-year-old daughter was critically burned.

Mesa police arrested a 43-year-old suspect less than 10 minutes after a bank robbery Thursday.

The Arizona Department of Transportation is set to open new northbound lanes on Interstate 17 north of Phoenix just in time for next week's Thanksgiving travel crush.

Arizonans aren't expected to hit the gas any more this Thanksgiving holiday weekend compared to last year.

A mostly cloudy sky Saturday offered scattered sprinkles, but little else in the East Valley.

The Valley broke a 20-year record Tuesday, reaching a high of 91 degrees at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Higley Unified School District Superintendent Denise Birdwell will be reviewed through a revised evaluation Dec. 3 after the governing board approved the new tool Thursday.

Ken Brague, a medical salesman with five children in the Queen Creek Unified School District, was named Thursday as the newest member of the district governing board.

Freedom Communications has received a letter of intent to purchase the East Valley Tribune and keep the newspaper and Web site operating, Publisher Julie Moreno said Friday.

A military experiment is trying to predict who's most at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder. Understanding underlying triggers might help reduce the burden of those who return psychologically wounded - if they can get early help.