WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - The Police announced their first tour in decades Monday at a rehearsal at the Whisky a Go-Go as a throng of fans crowded near the legendary Sunset Strip nightclub. The tour includes a June 18 concert at US Airways Center in downtown Phoenix.

The Phoenix Open is dead. Long live the FBR Open.

Quentin Richardson knew he'd play another game in Phoenix eventually. He just never thought Mike D'Antoni would be his coach. "I didn't think I had a shot in the dark of playing for Coach D again - unless somehow I was traded back to Phoenix," Richardson said. "I thought he'd be here 10 years. I mean, look at all he did. It speaks for itself. Everything comes to an end, but that's stunning,"

A family of koalas has arrived at The Phoenix Zoo. The fuzzy marsupials will reside there until March 2011 in the Valley, on loan from the San Diego Zoo in a program to raise awareness about the destruction of wild koala habitat in Australia. Sooky and Kobi’s exhibit will open to the public for the first time on Sunday.

Stand-up comedian Steve Byrne is in Phoenix this weekend for the “Sullivan and Son Comedy Tour,” promoting his new TBS sitcom.

PHOENIX - Officials hope the new $350 million Sheraton hotel in downtown Phoenix that is set to open Tuesday is a big hit with tourists and convention goers.

Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday announced plans for a Chinese-owned solar panel maker to build its U.S. headquarters and a manufacturing plant in the Phoenix area, propelling one of the nation's sunniest states toward a more global presence in the renewable energy industry.

With broad smiles, a buoyant Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted said Tuesday the College of Cardinals had chosen a man he has known and worked with in Rome, and “he is a pope that carries on the traditions of John Paul II.”

With broad smiles, a buoyant Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted said Tuesday the College of Cardinals had chosen a man he has known and worked with in Rome, and “he is a pope that carries on the traditions of John Paul II.”

The idea Jim Jackson could become a Phoenix Sun first floated around the team’s front office as soon as Jackson was dealt from Houston to New Orleans the day after Christmas.

The Coyotes spent almost three months trudging through road trip after road trip, hoping to reach Christmas near the .500 mark and still within shouting distance of a playoff spot when their new arena opened in Glendale.

The Phoenix City Council has approved a massive $600 million renovation of the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa, which officials said will update the amenities of the swank hotel while preserving its historic character.

Mark Pope, a center who has spent time on the rosters of three NBA teams, is among the free agents the Suns may add to their training camp roster, club officials said Monday.

An unnamed ownership group has secured a World Hockey Association franchise for Phoenix for the inaugural 2004-05 season, WHA co-founders Nick Vaccaro and Allan Howell announced Tuesday.

The state’s only private law school plans to grow five times larger in the next three years, but it won’t be in Scottsdale, where the campus is now located.

A new after-school program at Kyrene elementary schools offers students the chance to visit the Phoenix Zoo every week. Just not in person.

Rattlers owner Robert Sarver said the sale of a majority portion of the team was completed Thursday, ensuring that the club will remain in Phoenix.

Food for the Hungry, the international faith-based relief organization that reaches to countries in need, has moved its headquarters from Scottsdale to Phoenix. The move, effective Sept. 5, ends Food for the Hungry’s 25-year presence in Scottsdale.

For the second time this year, a high-profile leader of the Apollo Group is stepping down. The Phoenix-based company that offers degrees to working students said Monday that Laura Palmer Noone, president of the University of Phoenix, will retire July 1 to spend more time with her family.

ANAHEIM, Calif. - The Coyotes came out of their eight-day All-Star break knowing the time to make a move was now. There was no time left to stammer, little room left for error.

Perhaps Mesa desires a new police chief who carries a fresh perspective, who employs an outsider’s eye when examining the department’s inner workings.

More than 12,000 people jammed the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum Wednesday to hear Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama deliver a speech focusing on education, health care and the war in Iraq.

Forty Jewish congregations, large and small, are spread across the Valley, in what is called America’s 13th largest Jewish metro area, with more than 82,000 Jews by one count.

The day started with a phone call.