Senior middle linebacker Austin Arias is the second member of Centennial’s class of 2010 to commit to playing Division 1 football next year.

Tri-City Baptist Church usually invites a military chaplain to speak the Sunday before Veteran’s Day. This year their choice of guest speaker is a little unusual—the church will hear from their own senior pastor, Mike Sproul, currently stationed at an Air Force base halfway around the world.

Drew Swartz hesitated just slightly before faxing in his paperwork to the Air Force Academy Wednesday afternoon.

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. - As Air Force cadets return to classes this month, they are seeing a new system for handling rape allegations - reforms put in place throughout the military in response to the sex scandal that rocked this prestigious school more than two years ago.

The site of Williams Gateway Airport ceased being a military base in 1993, but the airport in southeast Mesa remains home to the Air Force Research Laboratory.

The United States Air Force Concert Band will make a stop in Tempe at Arizona State University on the last leg of its two-week tour though California and Arizona.

The Luke Air Force Base's 56th Medical Group will sponsor Tricare briefings for military retirees and their family members at the Luke AFB Base Theater on July 12.

The Joint Environmental Task Force has spent the better part of a decade essentially fighting for two causes: to define the health threat posed by air pollutants due to sand and gravel mining operations, and to create a buffer zone between the mines and where people live.

The U.S. Air Force has agreed to purchase guided parachute systems developed by Gilbert-based STARA Technologies. The value of the contract was not disclosed.

It should have been one of the best trips of Drew Swartz’s life, and it started out that way.

I knew a lot about B-17 Flying Fortresses - or thought I did. I spent much of the 1970s assembling models of them in my basement. I once knew the B-17's battle history, armaments, bomb load, flight range and every stat my glue-addled brain could hold.

Arizona legislators are joining the knock-down, drag-out fight between Boeing and Airbus/Northrop Grumman over who will build the next-generation aerial refueling tanker for the U.S. Air Force.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - An American pilot was officially listed as killed in action after his F-16 crashed in Iraq last week, the U.S. Air Force announced on Sunday.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $49 million contract to a Chandler-based company to provide a near space communications system to improve battlefield communications.