After a number of parents vocally stressed at Thursday’s Gilbert Town Council meeting that they think the proposed construction of a mental health facility in Gilbert is too close to a nearby elementary school, the Town of Gilbert is hosting a follow-up meeting later this month to specifically address the topic with local residents.

Access in and out of southeast Mesa, including Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, will improve greatly come fall when construction on a part of State Route 24 is complete — years ahead of its original schedule.

On the southeast side of Chandler Regional Medical Center, a helicopter used to sit parked on land that is currently all dug up. That’s one memory Dr. Brian Tiffany, chief of the hospital’s medical staff, recalled when he started at the facility in 2003.

The official transition for the renaming of Mesa’s Eighth Street to Rio Salado Parkway began this week, when dual-named street signs were installed along the road between Country Club Drive and the Loop 101 freeway.

Chandler Mayor Jay Tibshraeny delivered his 2013 state of the city address last week, touching mostly on the subjects of employment, neighborhood sustainability, outreach and transparency and better health.

Chandler Mayor Jay Tibshraeny delivered his 2013 state of the city address last week, touching mostly on the subjects of employment, neighborhood sustainability, outreach and transparency and better health.

Once, the barren mesas and shrub-covered canyons that extend east of the Pacific Ocean held the most popular routes for illegal immigrants heading into the U.S. Dozens at a time sprinted to waiting cars or a trolley stop in San Diego, passing border agents who were too busy herding others to give pause.

CHICAGO — A merged American Airlines and US Airways will carry more passengers around the world than any other, but even the biggest airline flying doesn't need eight hub airports on the ground.

Gilbert gave its first State of the Town address in digital form Thursday, incorporating town council members, community leaders and business owners in addition to Mayor John Lewis.

MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. — The four-legged member of the counseling team at the high school in suburban Chicago waits patiently, as a crush of students fills the hallways. Her tail wags with the first pat on the head, then another and another.

Until the very end, she is described as "The Girl."

Several youth from the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) showed up in anti-Loop 202 T-shirts and masks to the Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce Public Policy meeting on Friday to show opposition for the meeting’s presenter.

More plans are in place for Mesa’s Eastmark after Scottsdale-based DMB Associates sold 527 acres of the site to home builders this week.

Phoenix city management has released an action plan to deal with a sexual harassment claim coming from the Phoenix Fire Department and to provide supervisors with training to address similar claims in the future.

Walking into Infusionsoft provides a bit of jolt.

DALLAS — Tempe-based US Airways turned in a strong performance during a three-month stretch that covers much of the peak summer vacation season.

Transportation officials are seeking input on a proposed interstate that would link Phoenix and Las Vegas.

The Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce has announced nominees for the 2012 Palo Verde Business Woman of the Year and the 10 women are well known in the community for not only their business but their service.

In the cool cover of night, R.E. Wall and Margaret Dewar stand on scaffolding, brushing paint on the side of a store on Mesa Main Street. When the sun comes up, they put their paints away and crawl into their own one bedroom — the back of an old work truck parked out back — and sleep through the heat of the day.

The new hotbed of innovation and business development may be right here in Chandler.

For several years now, the neighborhoods along the north side of Mesa’s Main Street in the city’s downtown district have had an identity within a serene setting of historic districts.

Lines grew in anticipation outside Apple stores across the Valley Friday morning.

The new film Dredd 3D follows a day-in-the-life of the post-apocalyptic Mega City One’s most famous judge, jury and executioner - Judge Dredd. But the new movie is more of a gritty re-envisioning of the comic-book source material and a direct remake of Sylvester Stallone’s Judge Dredd from 1995.

Cuteness will carry an actor or actress a long way in Hollywood, usually right into those awkward teen years.