As Mesa grows as a community, so has the attention it’s paid in the region and nationally.

Gilbert will gather to show appreciation and gratitude for two returning patriots during the next Operation Welcome Home ceremony at 6 p.m. Thursday.

Valerie Kaff was dominant and led the Mountain View softball team to a 3-1 victory over Desert Mountain in a pitchers' duel.

Mesa beat Red Mountain in boys tennis action, 5-4, on Friday night.

Here’s a unique opportunity for those without remote control toys: Head out to the 1/8 Air Force model airplane club event and fly someone else’s.

Desert Mountain's Tim Willittes threw a complete-game two-hitter and the Wolves scored three runs in the middle innings to beat Notre Dame, 3-1, on Wednesday.

Mesa’s Ross Farnsworth spent several decades as chairman and CEO of various Farnsworth Companies developing land and real estate projects, driven by his desire to help people and the community he loved.

Mesa's boys tennis won 7-2 against Westwood on Monday.

The Chandler Police Department located Pippa Cox, 40, in the Gila River Indian Community. Police issued a request for help Tuesday after Cox was said to have walked away from a residential behavioral group home in the 3600 block of south Ashley Drive sometime early Tuesday morning. Pippa is on prescribed medication, but did not have these medications with her.

Safety at Mesa schools could be improved by adding fencing, replacing chainlink fences with wrought iron fences and relocating offices to the exteriors of campus, the district’s security director told the governing board Tuesday night.

On Jan. 22, Priest Willis slipped on a pair of powder blue football gloves, aligned his hands in the sign of a ‘U’ and confirmed to the college football world what everyone long suspected: He was verbally committing to UCLA.

Careful, East Valley. With apologies to Marty McFly, that forming line many think is leading to recovery instead is into an economic time machine that’s once again taking us back to the future.

MLK Basketball Classic

Attention pet lovers: How would you like to help homeless cats, dogs, puppies and kittens find a family and permanent home? The Arizona Animal Welfare League is seeking volunteers with retail and customer service skills to help out at its adoption site in Chandler Fashion Center.

I’m typing this very quietly. I don’t want my car to know I’m talking to you about it.

Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center will break ground on a 130,000 square-foot, $62.6 million expansion on the Banner Gateway campus Jan. 22.

Nearly 1,000 underprivileged students are expected to benefit from Kyrene School District’s “Winter Wonderland” event next week.

The Mountain Pointe-Desert Vista boys basketball game will be played at US Airways Arena on Jan. 31.

Area football players were snubbed on the All-Arizona team voted on by the football coaches association.

Known primarily for his character roles in “Total Recall” and “RoboCop,” long-time performer Ronny Cox is also a singer-songwriter, performing laid-back Southern folk music with a dash of self-depricating humor.