What down year? ASU's Escobedo has regained dominance at perfect time heading into Super Regional.

Escobedo shuts out Georgia again as ASU wins 2-0, advances to Super Regional.

Escobedo shuts out Georgia as ASU softball wins 2-0 to advance to regional final.

With rakes and shovels in hand, 40 volunteers with DMB Associates turned a once vacant lot in Mesa into a community garden last week.

Three years ago, a bunt, overthrow, or bobbled grounder led to a 1-0 win or loss.

For any other squad – a less-experienced or certainly less-tenacious one – an unfulfilling half of soccer could derail a season.

Mesa will have three new low- to moderate-income housing developments in the next few months, thanks to the city, private developers and federal tax credits administered by the state.

Plans to redevelop an abandoned neighborhood near downtown Mesa have hit a snag that threatens to unravel the project later this summer.

Nearly a century ago, racial tensions forced Mesa’s black residents to live at the city’s northern edge and establish a separate society with their own churches and stores.

The crumbling Escobedo Neighborhood in Mesa generated 780 police calls last year — a number that’s even more stunning when one considers the area hasn’t been home to a single resident since 2007.

A controversial housing project for low-income seniors has won approval in downtown Mesa — but not at a high-profile Main Street location that had triggered criticism from elected officials and the business community.

It’s a humorous and self-depreciating nickname: “The Red Mountain Way.”

Red Mountain has one, possibly two to spare. Gilbert and Saguaro both have it. Basha, Corona del Sol and Saguaro are working on it.

Red Mountain has one, possibly two to spare. Gilbert and Saguaro both have it. Basha, Corona del Sol and Saguaro are working on it.