Cactus Towing will have to share the Mesa towing contract for the first time in 10 years. With Mesa and Cactus both under investigation, the Mesa City Council voted Monday to divide the contract among three providers.

Cactus Towing will have to share the Mesa towing contract for the first time in 10 years. With Mesa and Cactus both under investigation, the Mesa City Council voted Monday to divide the contract among three providers.

Cactus Towing will have to share the Mesa towing contract for the first time in 10 years. With Mesa and Cactus both under investigation, the Mesa City Council voted Monday to divide the contract among three providers.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has launched an internal investigation into whether a posse member inappropriately used his volunteer badge during a traffic stop in Mesa earlier this month.

It was the system.

Six months ago, a towing company with a controversial past seemed set to land an exclusive contract with Tempe.

Jay Giesbrecht is a realist. As president of Mirage Putting Greens of the Valley in Scottsdale, Giesbrecht knows that texture, break and maintenance are secondary concerns when it comes to home putting greens. “The cosmetic element has taken on a much bigger role,” he says. “It has to. If you’re sticking something in the middle of your backyard, you’re going to see it out your kitchen window a lot more than you’re going to use it.”

Mesa spent more than $6,500 in 24 hours, paying dozens of officers to be on standby based on bad intelligence that Sheriff Joe Arpaio would be conducting his anti-immigration sweeps this week.

East Mesa resident Ike Barker hopes he has figured out a way to beat the rising cost of gasoline.

Complete list of the 76th annual Oscar nominations announced Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:

The state's top prosecutor plans to send special investigators to Mesa Thursday to watch over Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration sweeps, and the U.S. Justice Department has shown interest in having representatives there, too.

Cactus Towing shows no signs of slowing down despite being the subject of a fivemonth criminal investigation.

Cactus Towing shows no signs of slowing down despite being the subject of a fivemonth criminal investigation.

The Mesa City Council will be asked Tuesday whether to proceed with the award of its new towing contract or delay a decision until investigations of the city and Cactus Towing are completed.

The Mesa City Council will be asked Tuesday whether to proceed with the award of its new towing contract or delay a decision until investigations of the city and Cactus Towing are completed.

August 15, 2004

A $5.5 million Gilbert park expansion project featuring new Little League fields, a gymnasium and a lake is beginning to wind down.

Gilbert’s Crossroads Park may be home to the town’s next batting cage facility. The Gilbert Town Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday to authorize a request for proposals to find a developer and operator for a facility at the 60-acre park west of Greenfield Road, between Warner and Ray roads.

Gilbert’s Crossroads Park may be home to the town’s next batting cage facility.

An industrial solvent has not reached Gilbert's drinking water, according to the first sample taken from state-installed monitoring wells in the town.

Gilbert may scrap some McQueen Park expansion projects — a move that does not sit well with some council members and a Little League president.

A Mesa committee recommended Wednesday that Cactus Towing be awarded the city’s towing contract.

A Mesa committee recommended Wednesday that Cactus Towing be awarded the city’s towing contract.

A report examining more than 400 sex-crime cases that were inadequately investigated or not looked into at all by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office attributes the failures to understaffing and mismanagement, including hundreds of pieces of evidence intended for storage that were instead left in offices or taken home by detectives.