A mother and her three children escaped a fire in their northwest Mesa apartment unharmed late Sunday afternoon.

A long-delayed appeal of a Gilbert ruling that conventional apartment complexes can’t be built at the Main Street Commons without a use permit is expected to move forward Wednesday.

A 17-year-old driver crashed into an apartment building after losing control on a Gilbert road Tuesday.

A group of people inside a Mesa apartment told police late Sunday they were robbed at gunpoint by five men who made them lay on the floor as they searched them for valuables.

At least 50 firefighters battled a blaze at a Mesa apartment complex Friday afternoon, but the building was destroyed.

The amendments were buried in Gilbert's Tuesday City Council meeting agenda. Items 23 and 24: Requests to rezone two land parcels near Higley and Queen Creek roads.

Scottsdale fire crews extinguished a blaze at a two-story apartment building after slightly more than an hour on Friday.

Mesa police were investigating a shooting late Monday, after reports of a man with a gunshot wound came in around 7:35 p.m.

A Chandler apartment complex will get a face-lift in the coming months. In October, California-based Portico Properties bought a 200-unit complex on Price Road north of Elliot Road near the Loop 101 for $16.6 million.

The Scottsdale Fire Department is investigating an apartment fire that broke out in a second-story unit at 81st Street and Camelback Road early Thursday morning.