Go with what works, as pitching has for Val Kaff since age 6.

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The first day of Ryan Morrison’s volleyball career was also nearly his last.

Even Madison Clarke’s mother is in admiration.

Prolific documentary-maker Alex Gibney delivers a gripping account of the wins and losses of hard-charging idealism on the front lines of the information wars in "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks." Exhaustively researched and balanced in its view of the controversial key player, the film slips in ahead of DreamWorks' dramatic take on the exploits of Julian Assange, "The Fifth Estate," which is currently shooting.

In April, Hudson Blake became the first Brophy tennis player to win the singles state championship in 16 years.

Capping a stellar four-year career at Mountain View, senior pitcher Val Kaff was named the Gatorate Softball Player of the Year for Arizona.

As development of the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway has inched closer to a reality over the years, the proposed Pecos Alignment of the freeway has been most hotly debated because of the impending destruction to South Mountain itself. But many in Ahwatukee Foothills — on paper a part of the City of Phoenix, but ostensibly it’s own community of nearly 80,000 residents neighboring Tempe and Chandler — are also fearful of the state removing homes, businesses and a church to build the new freeway.

Opening in Mesa this weekend is a new film that depicts the true story of a little-known hero of the early West.

Mesa's Angela Zhang, a student at Mountain View High School, has been named one of six finalists for the National Forensic League Student of the Year Award.

Individuals for and against the Loop 202 freeway expansion through the South Mountain area trickled in and out of the Phoenix Convention Center last week, offering passionate pleas to panel members as the Arizona Department of Transportation hosted a day-long public hearing.

Andy Sessions, Red Mountain boys basketball’s second-leading scorer from a season ago, has transferred to Mountain View, his father, Greg, said.

Featuring sponsored content from local business leaders, sharing their stories of success,  'East Valley Home-Grown Business Leaders' debuted May 29 as a special publication of the East Valley Tribune.

You spend time and money to create a nice home. How can you protect it from intruders without it costing a fortune? It’s easier than you think.

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RAPID CITY, S.D. — Mount Rushmore National Memorial may be the most famous landmark in the Black Hills of South Dakota, but it's not the only one.

Raise your caps and don your gowns: It's graduation month!

A quick breakdown of Monday night's Division I softball state championship matchup between No. 14 Chaparral and No. 6 Red Mountain: