Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio unveiled his latest publicity stunt Monday — a radio broadcast piped to inmates and an inmate talent contest.

Valley commuters can now watch TV while filling up their gas tank.

"Sorry — Out of Order."

"Sorry — Out of Order."

A Queen Creek fire captain died in his sleep at a station Saturday.

Independent gas stations have been feeling the squeeze, more so than corporate-owned service stations and retail chains, during the ongoing gas crunch.

Gilbert is scheduled to open two new fire stations by the end of the year, including the first to serve the town’s growing northeast region.

The eve of another busy East Valley workweek became a long night of anxiety Sunday as thousands of drivers lined up for gasoline at the diminishing number of stations that still had fuel.

Over the last several years, the landscape and skyline of Scottsdale has dramatically changed.

January 26, 2005

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The two space station astronauts left their orbiting home in the hands of ground controllers Wednesday and floated outside to install an experimental robotic arm and inspect vents that might be causing air-supply equipment breakdowns.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents staged attacks against U.S. forces, schools to be used as polling stations and political party offices on Wednesday, as they pressed a bloody campaign to undermine Iraq's weekend elections. A U.S. Marine transport helicopter crashed in western Iraq.

With the shelves of United Food Bank nearly empty, the bank is asking for the public’s help to refill it with donations.

Rumor of a rupture in the fuel pipeline from Tucson touched off fears of another gas crisis Wednesday, sending alarmed Valley motorists racing to the nearest pump.

Chandler fire officials are readying a temporary station to fill response gaps in the city’s newer neighborhoods.

The Valley's gasoline picture was a little brighter today as more stations had fuel to sell and waiting lines shrunk.

The Valley’s first E85 fueling station serving the public has opened in Phoenix. Western States Petroleum opened the station at 450 S. 15th Ave. this week, said owner Bob Kec.

Chandler officials are planning a new way to get rid of residents’ trash as the city’s landfill becomes increasingly packed.

Officer John Salazar works his beat like other cops - except his is filled with hallways, lockers and teenagers. For the past two years, the veteran Gilbert policeman has worked at Williams Field High as a school resource officer, or SRO.

East Valley gas stations ran dry within hours if they stocked gas at all Tuesday. Yet long lines at the few open pumps often moved quickly.

New businesses are flooding into Fountain Hills as the north East Valley town continues to grow in population and wealth.

Knock out holiday shopping and the urge to get out and do something this weekend at the Tempe Festival of the Arts.

The Mesa Fire Department may not have followed policy in filling a swimming pool at a private home Tuesday afternoon, but fire officials said any infraction was justified.

Friday’s horrific news helicopter crash in central Phoenix was deeply saddening to those of us in the news media, a sadness compounded by some calls for helicopters not to be used to cover the kind of story that the four journalists who lost their lives were covering.