The Arizona Republic, the state’s largest newspaper, cut more than 100 jobs on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of massive workforce reduction announced by its parent company in October.

A newspaper's mistake is causing Mesa officials to postpone nine items slated for Monday's City Council meeting.

PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) - Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. Trent Crump says authorities are trying to determine what led to the death of an Ahwatukee man whose body was found in his backyard.

The Arizona Republic made another round of layoffs Thursday as part of Gannett Co.'s overall cut of 1,400 jobs at its newspapers.

Arizona State University baseball analyst and former Arizona Republic sportswriter Bob Eger died unexpectedly Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 66.

Funeral arrangements have been set for former Arizona Republic sportswriter Bob Eger, who passed away recently in his home in Phoenix.

Le Templar: I didn’t intent to create some extra work for the Arizona Secretary of State’s office when I called Wednesday to ask a couple of questions about a Twitter page that seems to be illegally using the Arizona state seal. But that’s what has happened, as Assistant Secretary of State Jim Drake and other staff members are looking for whoever set up a Twitter account simply to forward the top stories of the day from a Valley newspaper. 

Politics and art will meet during Wednesday's Republican presidential primary debate in Mesa when downtown businesses host a tongue-in-cheek event called Republi-Con. Organizers say they've invited the candidates to the event at 4 p.m., when politically themed artists will show their work and spoken-word artist Klute will debate any takers on Arizona issues.

As the owner of the Arizona Republic and KPNX-TV (Channel 12), the Gannett Corp. has a lot at stake in a proposed rule change before the Federal Communications Commission.

Secretary of State Ken Bennett

The Tribune published a complaint by Linda Brown lamenting that more than 112,000 voters in Maricopa County were "forced to cast provisional ballots on Election Day" ("Voting process should be reviewed," Opinion 2, Dec. 21). That means they did not have identification or evidence needed to allow them to vote, and were given a provisional ballot with adequate time to produce proper indicia.

PHOENIX - The federal government deported nearly 73,000 illegal immigrants from Arizona in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, a 64 percent increase from the previous fiscal year.

When Blaine Mathison told friends he would attempt today’s inaugural Ironman Arizona, he didn’t have time to ask their thoughts before the opinions started flying.

When Blaine Mathison told friends he would attempt today’s inaugural Ironman Arizona, he didn’t have time to ask their thoughts before the opinions started flying.

Armenian Christians relish telling the story of how their ancient King Abgar is said to have sent a letter to Jesus Christ asking him to come to Edessa (modern-day Urfa in Turkey) and cure him of leprosy.

Arizona exports in the first quarter of this year jumped a healthy 27 percent over the same three-month period a year ago, one of the biggest increases ever, according to figures released Tuesday by the Arizona Department of Commerce and the U.S. Commercial Service.

Hundreds of people demonstrated against Arizona's new immigration law on Thursday despite a federal judge's last-minute decision to block the most controversial parts of the measure, and about 50 people were arrested.

The parent company that launched Play It Again Sports and Once Upon a Child is again premiering a new-to-Arizona resale shop in the East Valley.

The East Valley Tribune was named Arizona's Newspaper of the Year among large  publications in the 2009 Better Newspapers contest sponsored jointly by the Arizona Newspapers Association and the Arizona Associated Press Managing Editors.

Lobbyist and former Arizona Republican Party Chairman Robert Fannin was confirmed Friday as the new ambassador to the Dominican Republic.