MaryAnne Majestic was appointed Thursday by the Tempe City Council as presiding judge of the Tempe Municipal Court.

Jim Dunham became Gilbert’s fourth municipal court judge this month as the town expects cases on the court docket to increase more than 50 percent in 2006 from 2005.

Cities and towns are banding together to stop Cox Communications from collecting millions of dollars in past sales tax levied on cable services.

Cities and towns are banding together to stop Cox Communications from collecting millions of dollars in past sales tax levied on cable services.

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will speak in Mesa on Friday to dedicate a new municipal court.

Mesa Municipal Court is part of a pilot program to improve the efficiency of drunken-driving cases. Mesa is joining 10 other courts in the program, which requires them to come up with plans for speedier case processing and establish local committees made up of all the players in drunken-driving cases — such as police, defense attorneys and crime labs — to assist in implementing the plan.

City Manager Chris Brady acted beyond his legal powers in disciplining police officers in a city e-mail scandal that occurred last spring, an Arizona Superior Court Judge has ruled.

They may not be everyone’s idea of art. But the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday that tattoos are “expressive elements’’ of both the artist and the wearer.

Mesa took steps Monday to ease its downtown sign law, but it won't be enough to stop a business from suing, a lawyer said.

A citizens task force is meeting Monday to discuss whether the size of Mesa’s redevelopment area should change.

Vice Mayor and District 6 Councilmember Scott Somers has been appointed as vice chair of the National League of Cities’ (NLC) Public Safety and Crime Prevention (PSCP) Steering Committee for 2013.

Mesa will close its city offices on Wednesday to observe Veterans Day, but some Mesa services and facilities will continue. The municipal court, library and recreation centers will close, but garbage pickup will stay on its normal schedule.

The idea of bringing municipal government to the mall may sound dull, but Mesa is planning a lively introduction to the city with a free concert, fire trucks, the police helicopter, raffles and more.

Mesa Presiding Judge Matt Tafoya wants a prominently displayed city courthouse with a traditional look that would leave no doubt to its purpose and bring civic pride to the community.

The first tangible improvement to result from the iMesa initiative sprouted Thursday as the city broke ground on a downtown community garden.

A committee starts meeting this week to study bond proposals Mesa voters will decide next year.

A Mesa officer is on paid administrative leave after being arrested by Gilbert police on suspicion of domestic violence and false reporting to a law enforcement officer. His wife was arrested in the same incident.

February 22, 2005

July 24, 1945 — the Mesa City Council called a special budget meeting and decided to end the city’s property tax and use utility revenue to make up the difference.

As the economy slowly comes back to life, downtown Mesa is seeing vacant space filled by new businesses and existing ones expanding their presence.

A legislative plan to balance the state budget by stripping cities of $210 million collected from developers is actually coming from the people who have been working to limit the ability of cities to collect the fees in the first place.

Cox Communications and Mesa are tangled in an escalating battle over the cable company’s operating license, which expires in September.