NEW YORK (AP) — Proposing marriage has become an industry of its own with professional planners, flash mobs for hire and elaborate, homegrown surprises to make the moment memorable. And let's not forget YouTube, and our steadfast resolve to share.

Tucked away in the heart of San Tan Valley, The Good Life Festival – a multi-event, season-long gathering at Encanterra Country Club – regularly puts a focus on food, wine and music.

Gift giving feels good, and can feel even better if you know your purchase is helping those less fortunate. Luckily, a number of home décor retailers partner with charitable organizations; many do so year-round, with additional initiatives during the holiday season.

Gift giving feels good, and can feel even better if you know your purchase is helping those less fortunate. Luckily, a number of home décor retailers partner with charitable organizations; many do so year round, with additional initiatives during the holiday season.

Along a portion of State Route 87 — better known as Old Hunt Highway in the heart of the Gila River Indian reservation between Alma School and Dobson roads near Sacaton, Olberg Bridge reaches across desert that used to be a river.

When Eric Rodriguez was 7 years old, the Grant Woods Branch of the Boys and Girls Clubs of the East Valley became his second home. Today it’s still his second home — and also his livelihood. He’s been the branch executive for the past three years.

For several years now, the neighborhoods along the north side of Mesa’s Main Street in the city’s downtown district have had an identity within a serene setting of historic districts.

OK, I must confess I am a German, so I am a little biased in my post about Brat Haus in Scottsdale, the latest creation by locally famous Chef Payton Curry.

The new film Dredd 3D follows a day-in-the-life of the post-apocalyptic Mega City One’s most famous judge, jury and executioner - Judge Dredd. But the new movie is more of a gritty re-envisioning of the comic-book source material and a direct remake of Sylvester Stallone’s Judge Dredd from 1995.

My family and friends love to go to Box Canyon near Florence.

In Phoenix, as graffiti has become a challenge in parts of our community, we have leveraged the power of volunteers to help the city remain a beautiful place to live and work.

An artist's workspace is as personal as the artwork.

Anonymous speech is as old as graffiti — and as new as the views about certain Gilbert candidates’ religious beliefs found in a mailer sent by an anonymous group calling itself Concerned Arizona Taxpayers.

So Sheriff Joe is offering a reward (Aug. 5 Tribune) to catch whomever is vandalizing his “Elect Arpaio” signs he placed everywhere on taxpayer-owned public right-of-way. Who’s responsible for fining Joe for violating state laws ARS 9-500.14 and ARS 15-511, which forbid ALL electioneering on government-controlled property? One law forbids all election signs on city-controlled easement, where most of his signs are. The second with a per sign fine, forbids such signs on school district-owned easement, where politicians love to put their sign graffiti. Doesn’t anyone care about the annual sign mess?

Reupload of Mr. Smith's "Reduce $'s to Chick-Fil-A's Hate Groups" Originally posted on www.reddit.com, front page of the internet. Thanks Redditors for finding this video FIRST! YouTube name is 'amsmith77amsmith' NEWSFLASH: Gay Extremists Vandalize Chick-fil-A Store http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/08/chick-fil-a-kiss-hate-graffiti-vandalized.html NEWSFLASH: Mr. Smith FIRED as of 8/2/12 http://www.theblaze.com/stories/college-lecturer-berates-local-chick-fil-a-employee-at-the-drive-thru-horrible-corporation/ http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/02/idUS264370+02-Aug-2012+MW20120802 Where did it happen? Chick-Fil-A 3605 East Broadway Boulevard Tucson, AZ 85716 +1 520-321-4232 Reposted under the "Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing United States Entrepreneurship Act of 2007" Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIVvOmnF0jc

A recent event occurred in Gilbert where Felix Bermea, his partner Roy Messerschmidt, and their four children have been enduring anti-gay motivated harassment.

Beginning July 1, the city of Phoenix Neighborhood Services Department (NSD) will launch the “Graffiti Free Phoenix” pilot program.

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.

In just two years the city has gone from a $277 million budget shortfall in 2009-10 to a balanced budget with a possible $5.3 million in expanded services in the city’s trial budget for 2012-13, but Ahwatukee Foothills residents still had some concerns to voice about city employee costs and the food tax at a budget hearing Monday at Pecos Community Center.

In just two years the city has gone from a $277 million budget shortfall in 2009-10 to a balanced budget with a possible $5.3 million in expanded services in the city’s trial budget for 2012-13, but Ahwatukee Foothills residents still had some concerns to voice about city employee costs and the food tax at a budget hearing Monday at Pecos Community Center.

It’s déjà vu all over in the long-standing conflict between Mesa and the owner of the long-vacant Fiesta Village shopping center.

Hundreds of Tempe residents, music lovers and business owners packed a neighborhood safety meeting and poured out into the adjoining hallway Monday, which focused on the shooting that injured 16 outside the Clubhouse March 2.

Daniel Moore celebrated his Eagle Scout Court of Honor at Corpus Christi Church last month. Moore is a member of Troop 278 of Ahwatukee with Scoutmaster Tim Christianson.

Daniel Moore celebrated his Eagle Scout Court of Honor at Corpus Christi Church last month. Moore is a member of Troop 278 of Ahwatukee with Scoutmaster Tim Christianson.