Arizona’s small businesses drive significant economic growth in the state. Garin Groff’s July 15 article, “Mesa, Chandler Gilbert pace East Valley’s lead in Valley in retail recovery,” shows the East Valley is doing especially well, with spaces left vacant during the recession finally filling up with new businesses.

Off-road riders gathered Saturday in support of National Public Lands Day to clean up the desert near Florence Junction on U.S. 60.

If you were cited for a misdemeanor while on a public land, but you haven’t paid the price for it, here’s your chance. On May 1, federal land authorities will open up offices and courthouses across the state so that violators can pay their fines and clear their records.

Mesa is taking steps to sell more than two acres of land at less than half of what taxpayers paid for it to accommodate a controversial city redevelopment project

So far, there is less than meets the eye to last month’s announcement that obesity is now regarded as a disease by federal health officials.

Seven times now, voters have rejected ballot measures to give the state the power to trade away public lands.

Unable to unilaterally kill a federal anti-terrorism law, state legislators have settled for the next best thing: threatening to send those who help enforce the law to jail.

A federal appeals court has barred the Bureau of Land Management from pushing through Bush-era changes in how the government oversees grazing on 160 million acres of public lands throughout the West, including nearly 12 million acres in Arizona.

SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST, California — Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggled immigrants to cultivate them.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Hampered by lean budgets and growing responsibilities, federal land management agencies have struggled in recent years to keep up with the rising popularity of off-highway vechicle use on public land, congressional investigators said in a report Thursday.

It took Suzanne Young a full year to learn the landmarks and find her way around the Washington-Escobedo neighborhood.

July 9, 2004

The public was noticeably absent at two special meetings to discuss Chandler’s annexation of 80 acres for the planned Chandler Fiesta Auto Park on the northwest corner of Gilbert Road and the Santan Freeway stretch of Loop 202.

Tempe has issued the first challenge to the landmark Randy Bailey condemnation case, asking the Arizona Supreme Court to overturn it as the city tries to seize land for a massive shopping center.

Tempe has issued the first challenge to the landmark Randy Bailey condemnation case, asking the Arizona Supreme Court to overturn it as the city tries to seize land for a massive shopping center.