Mesa’s Buckhorn Mineral Baths.

I pity any building that has to stand in front of the Superstitions. Few, if any, man-made structures could pull the eyes from those fabled rocks, which seem to rise in front of you as you drive out of Apache Junction on state Route 88. 

Depending on who you ask in Mesa’s Apache Wells neighborhood, the brown, retro-style building with the UFO domes on top is either a run-down monstrosity that deserves to be torn down or an old building that should be renovated.

Marcos de Niza High School students in Tempe knew who they wanted for homecoming king over the weekend — not a football player or Student Council officer.

Time to get out of Dodge, music fans! With the official start of summer only about a month away it's time to pack up the car with some road music, a variety of munchies, cold drinks and maps, and hit the open highway for a place where you don't see those funky heat mirages rising off the blacktop.

Time to get out of Dodge, music fans! With the official start of summer only about a month away — although here in the Valley the unofficial official start of summer is usually somewhere around the first week of March — it's time to pack up the car with some road music, a variety of munchies, cold drinks and maps, and hit the open highway for a place where you don't see those funky heat mirages rising off the blacktop.

For many years, the basement of the Memorial Union building at Arizona State University’s Tempe campus was where you’d find fast food, a bowling alley and pool tables, the campus bookstore and barber shop.

Ron Hartemann steps into the wash at South Mountain Park and smiles.