Evie Cornell and her husband, Mel, had good reason to attend Peoria’s meeting on the Agua Fria truck road reliever project.

“We live in Ventana Lakes,” Evie Cornell said. “Our property backs up to Beardsley Road.” The project, which is designed to divert gravel trucks from Beardsley Road onto an alternate road to be built next year, is intended to reduce the number of trucks that drive through Ventana Lakes and thus reduce the pollution and particulates in the Peoria community’s air.

Evie Cornell and her husband, Mel, had good reason to attend Peoria’s meeting on the Agua Fria truck road reliever project.

“We live in Ventana Lakes,” Evie Cornell said. “Our property backs up to Beardsley Road.” The project, which is designed to divert gravel trucks from Beardsley Road onto an alternate road to be built next year, is intended to reduce the number of trucks that drive through Ventana Lakes and thus reduce the pollution and particulates in the Peoria community’s air.

The Environmental Protection Agency has issued warnings to seven Phoenix-area sand and gravel firms that they need to control dust or they could be barred from bidding on federal road projects or even face fines.

In an attempt to avoid a prolonged legal battle, Pinal County officials met with representatives of several gravel mining companies Tuesday and asked for cooperation in replacing the Schnepf Road bridge and repairing the Queen Creek bed.

In an attempt to avoid a prolonged legal battle, Pinal County officials met with representatives of several gravel mining companies Tuesday and asked for cooperation in replacing the Schnepf Road bridge and repairing the Queen Creek bed.

To reach the future Gilbert mall from her home, Delann Denham will need to turn right onto Ray Road, right on Val Vista Drive, left on Williams Field Road and left again on Greenfield Road.

Skyline Drive is significant to Pinal County’s future — officials have long considered it a future east-west route through state trust lands to state Route 79. Driving down it now, though, is a strange trip — several miles of the road heading east only serve to take drivers nowhere . . . fast.

Pinal County is advising drivers they may find delays on roads for several months as crews repair sinkholes in Copper Basin, Rancho Bella Vista and Circle Cross Ranch. Workers will first remove failed material and re-compact the base, allowing it to stand for a few weeks before paving.

South Scottsdale’s McDowell Road is about to get a makeover.

FLAGSTAFF — Teeth-chattering. Axle-busting. Head-pounding.

The monsoon rains late last week hit Pinal County pretty hard, leaving some 13 sections of roads closed due to flood-carried debris or needed repairs.

The release of water down the Salt River has closed the McKellips Road crossing, near Loop 202, in northwest Mesa.

More than 1,000 miles of unpaved roads in Pinal County create air-quality problems when dry and accessibility problems for school buses, public safety and motorists when wet.

Skyline Drive is significant to Pinal County’s future — officials have long considered it a future east-west route through state trust lands to state Route 79.

Windy weather and wild traffic kicked off Saturday’s play of the LPGA Safeway International in Gold Canyon.

A mining company owned by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community was ordered by a jury Thursday to pay $17 million in underpaid royalties to the owner of several quarries in Sun City, Glendale and Queen Creek.

It’s just after 8 p.m. on Friday at the Scottsdale Six Drive-In, and though the sun has slipped from the sky, the thermometer takes its sweet time dipping below 90 degrees. A stream of vehicles curving toward squat tollbooths stirs up dust clouds along the drive-in’s decrepit gravel road

Businesses along Tempe’s light-rail line are urging the city to ditch plans for gravel along the track in favor of concrete — an upgrade that would cost millions.

Businesses along Tempe’s light-rail line are urging the city to ditch plans for gravel along the track in favor of concrete — an upgrade that would cost millions.

If you haven’t discovered the hidden secrets of landscaping gravel, it might be because . . . there aren’t any.

If you haven’t discovered the hidden secrets of landscaping gravel, it might be because . . . there aren’t any.

Cochise County Sheriff Larry Devers was heralded as an outstanding role model in his community, a devout Mormon, who stood up to the Obama administration, and was a tough sheriff more than willing and able to enforce all the laws of the land. Well, it turns he did not enforce the laws on himself.

The Mesa Fire Department transported a teenager to a hospital following a one-vehicle rollover at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday in the median of the Red Mountain Freeway stretch of Loop 202 and Alma School Road.