Scottsdale has received financial help to construct a better front door to the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. A Heritage Grant, totaling $126,949, recently was approved by the State Parks Board.

Scottsdale has received financial help to construct a better front door to the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. A Heritage Grant, totaling $126,949, recently was approved by the State Parks Board.

SACRAMENTO — Steve Nash and the Phoenix Suns are finding the road is a horrible place to make a playoff push. One night after a heartbreaking overtime loss in Utah, the Suns had a lackluster effort against the NBA's worst team.

Free after-school programs are coming to three Scottsdale district schools this fall.

The career of another Arizona television broadcast legend came to an end Friday night as Michael Grant signed off from “Horizon,” the daily news and public affairs program broadcast by PBS affiliate KAET-TV (Channel 8).

While the last few years have witnessed the closure of more than a few local businesses, Dutch Bros. of Arizona — the local franchise of the popular Oregon-based family of drive-thru coffee kiosks — has continued to expand in the Valley.

Students at Gilbert High School won the Arizona Interscholastic Association’s team state chess championship earlier this month and last week seniors Nick Thompson and Fletcher Peavy won first and second place respectively in the individual state competition.

A task force searching for the Baseline Rapist has linked him to a Tempe slaying in which a man is already behind bars.

A task force searching for the Baseline Rapist has linked him to a Tempe slaying in which a man is already behind bars.

ATHENS, Greece - In a rousing start to the much-anticipated Olympic swim meet Saturday, Ian Thorpe won his second straight gold in the 400 freestyle — a race he got into only through the generosity of an Australian teammate — and Jenny Thompson was denied her recordtying ninth gold medal when she gave up the lead to Australia on the final leg of the 400 free relay.

Police departments and sheriff's offices across the state are losing millions of dollars in grants this year for special drunken driving enforcement projects as lawmakers search for ways to adjust for Arizona's budget woes.

Lewd, crude and unabashedly Freudian, “Slither” constitutes the single most delightful piece of low-budget sci-fi shlock since “Tremors.”

The Suns’ roster reached 14 players on Monday with the official signings of guard Eddie House and forward Lucas Tischer.

I too, like Bob Beane, am puzzled over Don Kennedy's car price comparisons... 1946 and now ("More rational thought needed," AFN, June17).

Little Quinn Clark, dressed in a hospital gown and hooked up to machines, didn’t have much to say when three Phoenix Suns basketball players walked into her room Friday.

East Valley lawmakers are leading a bipartisan effort to build nearly $400 million in new research laboratories at Arizona's three universities despite the state's historic fiscal woes.

Channing Frye scored 29 points, Amare Stoudemire had 26, and the fast-moving Phoenix Suns overcame the losses of Steve Nash and Grant Hill to beat the Sacramento Kings 143-127 on Tuesday night in their final home preseason game.

January 29, 2005

ATHENS, Greece -- Michael Phelps grabbed his head in disbelief, then thrust his left fist in the air. He's an Olympic champion - just like Mark Spitz. Phelps began his quest to overtake Spitz's 1972 record haul of seven gold medals with a dominating performance in the 400-meter individual medley, breaking his own world record Saturday night and claiming the first U.S. gold medal of the Athens Games.

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. - Rich Philhower knows the trouble a few vacant houses can bring a homeowners association.

HOUSTON - Rookie Diana Taurasi made sure the Phoenix Mercury didn’t blow a 19-point lead in the second half.