Arizona’s largest electric company approved a $1 million donation to help support the 2015 Super Bowl in Glendale.

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton will honor crews from Arizona Public Service and Salt River Project who recently returned from New York after helping restore power to residents in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

Salt River Project went live on a 19 megawatt solar plant in Queen Creek last week, raising the company’s retail electrical needs from renewable sources to 10 percent.

SRP’s board of directors on Monday approved a new executive management team for Mark Bonsall, former chief financial executive and manager of commercial and customer services who was named general manager in April. Bonsall’s team will consist of SRP veterans John F. Sullivan, Michael Lowe, Michael Hummel, Gena Trimble, Aidan McSheffrey, Peter Hayes and Michael O’Connor, many of whom have held positions in customer services and community relations at the utility.

Mark Bonsall will succeed Richard “Dick” Silverman as the general manager of SRP, the Valley’s largest provider of water and electricity.

Mark Bonsall will succeed Richard “Dick” Silverman as the general manager of SRP, the Valley’s largest provider of water and electricity.

Mark Bonsall will succeed Richard “Dick” Silverman as the general manager of SRP, the Valley’s largest provider of water and electricity.

Salt River Project and its customers have started receiving electricity from Springerville Unit 4, the state's newest coal-fired power plant.

Salt River Project said Friday it will build a 20-megawatt solar power plant in the East Valley that will give its electric customers an alternative to rooftop solar panels if they wish to use renewable power.

The Salt River Project board of directors voted Tuesday to defer any electricity rate increase to at least May after hearing complaints from customers about the project's proposed 8.8 percent increase to be effective Nov. 1.

Salt River Project's management is proposing the utility's largest electric rate increase in 28 years.

Salt River Project suffered its first net loss in nearly two decades, the utility reported Tuesday.

By 2050 the Hispanic labor force is expected to more than double in the United States to 31 percent and the population of the group will make up 29 percent of the total population.

MALIBU, Calif. - Nick Nolte escaped a fire that caused an estimated $1.5 million damage to his Malibu home on Tuesday, authorities said. The 67-year-old actor scraped his arm and inhaled some smoke but was not hospitalized, Los Angeles County fire Inspector Sam Padilla said.

Salt River Project is likely to increase electric rates in November to cover higher fuel costs - even though the price of fuel has declined sharply.

The East Valley’s main electric utility is poised to make dramatic changes in how the agency spreads out its costs among homeowners and businesses.

Salt River Project is looking for sites for several new natural-gas fired power plants to serve expected growth in the company’s electric service territory.

The management of Salt River Project is proposing a 3.9 percent electric rate increase, which, if approved by SRP’s board of directors, would raise the average homeowner’s monthly bill by $3.99.

BOULDER, Colo. - Former child star Brian Bonsall, who played Andy Keaton in "Family Ties," was arrested on charges of assaulting his girlfriend, police said.

The net revenue, or profit, of Salt River Project set a record in the fiscal year that ended on April 30, increasing 14.6 percent over fiscal 2005, the previous record year. But much of the increase was due to an accounting provision that didn’t relate to the actual operations of the project’s electric and water systems, the utility said.