If the number of failed New Year’s resolutions are any indication, eating healthy in a fast-paced world still isn’t all that easy.

1:05 a.m. is when it all starts. At 11:42 p.m., Eric Adkins looks out the side door to see if cars have started to wrap around the driveway. Manager Jon Parsons glances at his watch.

Every first and third Saturday, hundreds of people line up at Main Street and Extension Road in Mesa to receive bags of food from Resurrection Street Ministry/Manna Food Bank.

A fast food drive-thru clerk was held at gunpoint early Wednesday and nearly robbed.

Cranberries, stuffing, green bean casserole, yams, mashed potatoes and . . . tuna fish.

Ahwatukee chiropractor, Dr. Greg Hauser, is trying to fill a local need this fall by helping to feed the hungry of Ahwatukee with a “drive-thru” event outside his Great Choice Chiropractic, 15810 S. 45th St., Suite 160, on Nov. 10, from 8 a.m. to noon.

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has issued an ozone health watch for Tuesday.

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has issued an ozone health watch for Friday.

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has issued an ozone health watch for Wednesday.

McDonald’s restaurant at 358 E. University in Mesa will host a grand re-opening from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, to celebrate the restaurant’s extensive remodel.

Shattered glass and debris littered a Mesa parking lot Sunday after heavy flames and smoke destroyed a local Dairy Queen. There were two female employees inside but no customers at the time of the fire, Mesa fire Captain John Jayne said. No one was hurt.

These are the worst East Valley offenders from restaurant health inspections reviewed Nov. 10-16. For more details, or to search for any restaurant in Maricopa County, click here.

Entrees Made Easy has been providing Maricopa residents with quick, healthy, and affordable ready-to-heat dinners for the past 10 months, and they are now expanding their services to include delivery to the Province neighborhood and Maricopa schools.

Do you know you’re dying? From the day we’re born — especially after we stop growing — our bodies are continuously deteriorating. Organs don’t do their jobs quite so well, digestive systems can get sluggish, fat is easy to amass and muscle is in short supply with each passing year.

For many beer aficionados, nothing beats the freshness and flavor of a microbrew straight from the tap. Many drive miles to brewpubs to fill up glass bottles, also called growlers, with their favorites.

Do you know you’re dying? From the day we’re born — especially after we stop growing — our bodies are continuously deteriorating. Organs don’t do their jobs quite so well, digestive systems can get sluggish, fat is easy to amass and muscle is in short supply with each passing year.

Hundreds of people across the state have chimed in on the Arizona Department of Health Services' proposed guidelines for setting up a system to distribute medical marijuana, and officials are considering those comments as they begin drafting a final version.

Hundreds of people across the state have chimed in on the Arizona Department of Health Services' proposed guidelines for setting up a system to distribute medical marijuana, and officials are considering those comments as they begin drafting a final version.

Arizona medical marijuana patients could obtain 2.5 ounces of the drug every two weeks, which they may smoke or otherwise use at home, and would be allowed to consume edibles infused with marijuana in public, according to proposed guidelines released Friday by the state Department of Health Services.

Arizona medical marijuana patients could obtain 2.5 ounces of the drug every two weeks, which they may smoke or otherwise use at home, and would be allowed to consume edibles infused with marijuana in public, according to proposed guidelines released Friday by the state Department of Health Services.

FLAGSTAFF - Arizona in summer is known for dashboard-melting afternoons and low temperatures that top some other states' highs. But there's more to the state than cactus and heat, and the Grand Canyon is hardly the only place worth visiting this time of year.