Mesa is considering the sale of 1,600 acres of city-owned land in Pinal County to a Colorado-based firm currently building a heavy, rail-driven industrial development near Denver’s airport.

All of her young life, Eliza Andreasin has wanted to become a missionary in the church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints.

Mesa’s Ross Farnsworth spent several decades as chairman and CEO of various Farnsworth Companies developing land and real estate projects, driven by his desire to help people and the community he loved.

All of her young life, Eliza Andreasin has wanted to become a missionary in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

This could be a Mesa girl does good story.

Mesa Riverview opened its doors five years ago with up to $80 million in taxpayer incentives and plans to revive west Mesa with new shops and a bustling entertainment district.

As a helicopter circled above Mesa Community College’s Outback Theatre, students and protesters who had gathered to wait for a visiting President Bush wondered if he was on board.

Mesa history will be remade this month, as hundreds of young church volunteers do the heavy lifting for Mesa residents and state and city officials who want to restore a trail and historical marker to their rightful places along the Salt River.

Mesa history will be remade this month, as hundreds of young church volunteers do the heavy lifting for Mesa residents and state and city officials who want to restore a trail and historical marker to their rightful places along the Salt River.

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The mayors of Phoenix and Tempe and Arizona State University President Michael Crow were smiling and chummy Tuesday night as they celebrated the Phoenix bond election results.

June 22, 2004

Beginning today and continuing for another week, you may notice that a lot of people you know have lost their minds.

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Three major health-care corporations already serving the metropolitan area are scrambling to fill a medical void in the south East Valley and capitalize on the booming growth.

Annie Hunt moved from central Phoenix to southeast Gilbert a year ago.

The farms and two-lane roads that marked a way of life in Chandler and Gilbert for years are about to make way for the East Valley’s newest corridor of commerce: The Santan Freeway.

Dr. Eli Hammer was talking with a patient in the conference room of his north Scottsdale office when seven federal drug agents wearing bulletproof vests walked in and handed him a search warrant.

It can be a veritable pastime watching how various religions confront controversy and defend themselves. These days the Roman Catholic Church, Islam and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are among the most constantly dogged by a miscellany of events, scandals or controversies.

It can be a veritable pastime watching how various religions confront controversy and defend themselves.

What Marshall Stone likes best about his new home is he can look up at night and see the stars.

The doors to the neonatal intensive care unit at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center swung open last month to four tiny siblings. Stephanie Mast’s three girls and one boy became the Phoenix hospital’s 69th set of quadruplets.