Arizona State University today will formally announce and celebrate the renaming of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences after a longtime Tempe resident and national homebuilder.

Engineers might have a reputation as a stuffy bunch, but a group of students are out to prove otherwise.

NEW ORLEANS - Much of the city flooded not because water rushed over the tops of levees, but because two of the storm barriers that ring New Orleans actually shifted and then collapsed, a team of independent engineers said Friday.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Online search engine leader Google Inc. has hired a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. to influence the nation's laws governing the Internet, telecommunications and copyrights.

TUCSON - The Civil Air Patrol says the wreckage of a plane that went missing on a flight from eastern Arizona to Tucson has been found and there are no apparent survivors.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A longtime Iraqi exile who has proclaimed himself in charge of Baghdad pledged Sunday that the country's new constitution would be derived from Islamic law and promised to try anyone whose "hands are stained with the blood of the Iraqi people."

Misael Cabrera, a registered professional engineer, has been selected as the deputy director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. Cabrera, 41, has nearly two decades of experience in business leadership, regulatory negotiations, contract management, permitting, design, and construction management, according to a news release.

A new report says more than half of Arizona’s roads are in poor or mediocre condition and nearly 1,000 of the state’s bridges are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.

Jose Montoya picked grapes in California as a child and was one of eight children of a low-income Mexican family.

It’s No. 135 on the 2012 Fortune 500 list of America’s largest corporations, and it’s entering the new year with a host of jobs open throughout its home state of Arizona.

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For as long as Scottsdale has had the position of storm water management director, it has had no one to occupy the office.

The Civil Air Patrol was searching Friday for a small plane that left the airport in Mesa and never arrived in Winslow.

The people of Arizona need to be informed that Ward Connerly’s deceptive “civil rights” initiative in the form of Referendum 107 must not be passed. People should know that he has gone all over the country trying to get this kind of referendum passed in many states. The so-called “Arizona Civil Rights Initiative” is a lie. If this sham referendum passes, it will mean several programs that help women and communities of color could end, such as the City of Phoenix Teen Parents Program; programs that seek to encourage women to pursue academic majors and careers in science and engineering; and the YWCA Bright Futures Program, to name a few.

The Salt River Project is giving away desert adapted shade trees to homes around the Valley to reduce energy costs and improve air quality.

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and the Arizona Attorney General's Office announced Monday that Asarco will pay $20,000 in civil penalties under a consent judgment.

BAGDAD - Authorities are trying to find the owner of a small plane that crashed Saturday night while trying to land at a small airport in north-central Arizona.

ALAMOSA, Colo. - A search is under way in southern Colorado for a missing medical plane with three people aboard.

Here are a few interesting facts for those looking to college and choosing a degree.

Here are a few interesting facts for those looking to college and choosing a degree.

CARACAS, Venezuela - A plane carrying vacationers home to the French Caribbean island of Martinique crashed Tuesday in western Venezuela after reporting engine problems, killing all 160 people on board, officials said.

CARACAS, Venezuela - A plane carrying vacationers home to the French Caribbean island of Martinique crashed Tuesday in western Venezuela after reporting engine problems, killing all 160 people on board, officials said.