NEW YORK - The Bluetooth wireless standard used in cell phones and other small devices will take a leap in transmission speed, broadening its scope to enable high-definition video and files for digital music players like the iPod.

ABOARD THE USS HARRY S. TRUMAN - Lt. Shawn Hall spends his days thousands of feet above Iraq in his F/A-18 fighter jet, dropping GPS-guided bombs in support of American troops on the ground.

FORT SILL, Okla. - It’s a sweltering 90 degrees and soldiers Kevin Messmer and Kroften Owen are hunched in a rubble-strewn apartment. Peering from a window to avoid sniper fire, they see a bustling Iraqi city.

If cost-effective solar power isn’t possible in Arizona, it probably won’t be possible anywhere else. So on one level, the plan announced this week by a coalition of utility companies to build the nation’s largest solar energy plant in or near the state makes perfect sense.

A Phoenix-based power plant developer has announced plans to build the first electric generating station in Arizona using advanced clean coal technology.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Questions of life and death hang in the air at the Alexandria Emergency Communications Center.

The East Valley is home to a gem that is worth a lingering look on the nation's quest for a better public education system.

During the Valley’s gasoline shortage in August, business owner Julia Hutton never worried about her employees calling in to say they couldn’t get to work because they couldn’t buy gas. In fact, if any had, they would have been fired, she said.

During the Valley’s gasoline shortage in August, business owner Julia Hutton never worried about her employees calling in to say they couldn’t get to work because they couldn’t buy gas. In fact, if any had, they would have been fired, she said.

When hazardous materials technicians are called out to deal with a methamphetamine lab anywhere in the Valley, chances are they acquired their skills through Mesa Community College.

A crackling, popping fire is as requisite to the holiday season as tinsel and mistletoe. Burning brightly in the living room, with family piled around sipping hot chocolate or eggnog, one might almost forget for a moment that it’s still topping 80 degrees outside.

As forest fires raged across the state a few weeks ago, it was heartbreaking to see thousands of trees consumed by flames. Just last month, the Wallow Fire destroyed more than 530,000 acres of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests making it the largest forest fire in the state’s history. Many residents lost their homes while all of us have lost all that these tranquil forests have to offer.

As it has for years, the Mesa Fire Department invested Thursday in the training of fire science students at the East Valley Institute of Technology by donating an item the school could not otherwise afford: a 1997 Pierce Quantum 4-door cab fire truck.

A hazardous-materials situation forced the evacuation early Monday morning of an Arizona State University building in Tempe.

The latest attempt to topple Intel Corp. from its lofty microprocessor perch may be no more successful than previous attempts, said industry analysts interviewed by the Tribune on Tuesday.

February 9, 2005

Nineteen Valley cities and towns participate in a satellite-assisted dispatch system operated by the Phoenix Fire Department.

March 8, 2005

The Scottsdale Fire Department is talking with the Phoenix Fire Department and Rural/Metro Corp. to ensure access to firefighting equipment and a radio communications system.

A nationally recognized scientist and leading cancer researcher at ASU is suing the university and top administrators, accusing them of firing him after he blew the whistle on the mishandling of medical patent applications and school finances.

ASU sent text messages Thursday for the first time to notify students and employees about an emergency when a kitchen fire torched the Memorial Union’s eastern end.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration overturned a safety citation against masks used by the Chandler Fire Department this month after viewing the department's new policy to improve the testing process.

A former East Valley teacher accused of possessing more than 50 images of child pornography on his home computer is no longer working for the Coolidge Unified School District.

Curiously, the campaign to create and fund a government-run fire department in Scottsdale, which has significantly relied on assertions that current private provider Rural/Metro is technologically behind, now is trying to justify a new department’s cost by calling for buying used equipment.