A Spanish-based solar glass manufacturing company building its U.S. headquarters and plant in Surprise is looking to fill more than 100 jobs.

Rioglass Solar Steel, which produces curved glass sheets used in thermo-electrical power stations, will have a job fair 2 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Surprise City Hall, 16000 N. Civic Center Plaza.

A Spanish-based solar glass manufacturing company building its U.S. headquarters and plant in Surprise is looking to fill more than 100 jobs.

Rioglass Solar Steel, which produces curved glass sheets used in thermo-electrical power stations, will have a job fair 2 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Surprise City Hall, 16000 N. Civic Center Plaza.

A Spanish-based solar glass manufacturing company building its U.S. headquarters and plant in Surprise is looking to fill more than 100 jobs.

Rioglass Solar Steel, which produces curved glass sheets used in thermo-electrical power stations, will have a job fair 2 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Surprise City Hall, 16000 N. Civic Center Plaza.

The Arizona Corporation Commission plans to closely monitor a lawsuit accusing the Pinal County Board of Supervisors of sitting idly while Scottsdale utility owner George Johnson denied contractually guaranteed water service to a Maricopa developer.

Most weekends, giant clouds of dust kick up barely 250 yards away from Kay Karver's Gold Canyon residence. The culprits: dozens of quad drivers descending on the Peralta Trail, treading barely 250 yards from her home.

For the second time in four years, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors is accused of helping Scottsdale developer and utilities baron George Johnson get away with unlawful business practices in connection with a water improvement district.

Many Gold Canyon residents had the same thing to say about their sewer and the way the sewer has been managed — it stinks.

Many Gold Canyon residents had the same thing to say about their sewer and the way the sewer has been managed — it stinks.

For nearly a decade, Maricopa County has allowed dangerously potent methane gas to emanate from a Queen Creek garbage dump where town officials plan to begin building a park in spring 2006, a state-issued complaint states.

Maricopa County is preparing to expand its dust control program at a cost of about $1 million to give the Valley a better chance at meeting federal air quality standards in 2006.

There’s a simple reason why Chandler’s SanTan Brewing Company decided to build a brand new brewing facility – and it’s one that appears to be a good sign for progress of this particular East Valley beverage business.

Stormy weather gave the Valley’s dirty air a good scrubbing this winter, adding detail to mountain views and reducing levels of a dangerous pollutant.

It’s no longer a matter of waiting for the dust to settle. Dirt roads, vacant lots, construction sites, heavy industry and farms have been spewing asthma-causing particulates into the air at a rate that federal pollution regulators say is unhealthy for residents, and they want it to stop.

Fulton Brock: After all these years of hazy skies, wheezing lungs and federal clean-air warnings, it comes as no surprise to any of us in Maricopa County that we have a serious air pollution problem. We are concerned about our public health, and the threat of losing billions of federal highway dollars makes it more worrisome than it already is.

July 30, 2004

A block of south East Valley land larger than Mesa could become the model for quality urban planning if state, county and municipal leaders put aside their differences and focus on common goals, speakers at a pro-growth forum said Wednesday.

If you’ve ever had the feeling that the customer service representative at the other end of the toll-free number was not really paying attention, you might be right. But they probably won’t get away with goofing off for much longer.

If you’ve ever had the feeling that the customer service representative at the other end of the toll-free number was not really paying attention, you might be right. But they probably won’t get away with goofing off for much longer.

Pinal County and a prominent developer, in their zeal to convert rural areas into money-making subdivisions, are scheming to squeeze a small Queen Creek-area water utility dry, a lawsuit claims.

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These are the candidates for Tuesday's Fountain Hills Town Council election:

A 25-year veteran of the development business, Gilbert homeowner Anthony Amendola knows how to spot quality construction.

I made my decision to run for City Council when our current Chandler leadership launched the construction of a new 80 million dollar city hall. A decision to build the new city hall and spend 9 million dollars narrowing Arizona Avenue in the downtown area was not acceptable to me.

A popular Mesa pool will remain closed Saturday following word from Maricopa County that several people who had been swimming there are ill.