Police have named the victim shot and killed in front of a Gilbert home Thursday night.

Get the kids ready for summer with a free afternoon of swim lessons and warm weather fun at SWIMkids USA, where they’ll enjoy playing on water slides, eating hot dogs, and noshing on cotton candy and snow cones.

Weather conditions, circumstances and time permitting, the Maricopa Department of Environmental Quality will conduct mosquito fogging midnight Saturday to 5 a.m. Sunday in Mesa and Chandler.

Weather conditions, circumstances and time permitting, areas of Chandler, Gilbert and Mesa are scheduled for mosquito fogging midnight Saturday to 5 a.m. Sunday.

Weather conditions, circumstances and time permitting, the Maricopa County Environmental Services department will conduct mosquito fogging midnight Saturday to 5 a.m. Sunday in Gilbert.

Banner Children’s at Cardon Children’s Medical Center will have a free “Asthma Attackers” swim class 11:30 to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 6 in Mesa.

The Gilbert Unified School District's Volunteer Network (or Vnet) will host its third annual event Vendor Expo on April 27 at Highland High School, 4301 E. Guadalupe Road, Gilbert.

Mary Rose is raising money for bird conservation efforts, and she’s headed out on the open waters to do so. Rose will be rowing thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean next summer in the hope that she can be of help to the animal that she admires.

Want to hear some jazz? The place to be is Gilbert’s Highland High School this weekend.

Police arrested a 16-year-old student in Tempe for allegedly making threats to shoot people at his school Tuesday.

Downtown Chandler’s nice most anytime, but it’ll be a particularly good spot to while away a few hours April 5-6.

April Pools Day: SWIMKids USA makes it easy to get ready for swim season with a day of free swimming lessons, hot dogs, water games, cotton candy and snow cones. Reservations are required at (480) 820-9109.

A 44-year-old man died in a single vehicle motorcycle collision in Gilbert Wednesday night, Gilbert Police said.

Gilbert Unified School District, and many other East Valley Districts, are working through the first phase of implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). These high-quality standards, adopted by Arizona, along with 44 other states, are part of a national movement toward providing a common rigorous and relevant education to children across the United States. Designed to develop 21st century globally competitive students, the CCSS were carefully constructed using evidence-based research to create college and career ready students upon high school graduation.

The Gilbert Unified School District will hold public forums this week to gather input from the community on the attributes it wants in the district's next superintendent.

Gilbert police responded to a neighborhood near Guadalupe and Lindsay roads after a 5-year-old fired a handgun in the front yard Saturday morning, said Sgt. Jesse Sanger, Gilbert PD spokesman.

Christ the King Catholic Church of Mesa will host its 6th Annual charity golf tournament and luncheon this Saturday that will benefit the only shrine in Arizona dedicated to those who are affected by cancer.

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.

In the same vein of “To Kill a Mocking Bird” and “Catcher in the Rye,” Rudolfo Anaya’s “Bless Me, Ultima” has evolved into one of the most widely beloved and challenged books of all time. In some high schools this best-selling Chicano novel is considered a mandatory reading. Other schools have banished the book for its use of profanity, references to witchcraft, and religious themes. For anyone with an open mind, “Bless Me, Ultima” is certainly an enriching read-through about acceptance, family, faith, culture, and independence. The charm of Anaya’s novel sadly doesn’t shine through this adaptation by Carl Franklin, which gets bogged down by wooden performance and insipid direction.

Spots are still open for this weekend's 15th annual NCAA Football Youth Clinic hosted by the Fiesta Bowl.

It’s not every day a fifth-grader, an HVAC tech, a stay-at-home mom, a teacher or a sales manager can pitch in on a gigantic, real-world science project.

Valley homebuilders used December 2012 to take steps for future projects, while also seeing a 30 percent increase in new home sales for all of 2012, compared to 2011, according to a recent report.

Police have a student in custody after a bomb threat was called in to a Mesa high school Friday.

U.S. gold medalist Matt Grevers and his fiancé, U.S. Swim Team member Annie Chandler, will pass out medals during this year's Blake's Miracle swim- and float-a-thon at Mesa's SWIMkids USA.