Flush it and forget it is no longer the attitude in East Valley cities.

A Civil War diorama built for a Texas museum by Gilbert students and teachers was not destroyed, a museum spokesman said this week.

At the DC Ranch development, where landscape remains mostly desert, Bob Roberts and his crew were working Thursday to make sure it still looks that way when covered in houses.

The New Magma Irrigation and Drainage District, a 26,900-acre farming area in Pinal County between Queen Creek and Florence, is about to capture water from an unusual source.

An estimated 15,000 used athletic shoes collected in Tempe will be picked up and recycled into sports and playground surfaces Monday.

The legal staff of the Arizona Legislature is claiming that Gov. Janet Napolitano overstepped her authority last week by issuing an executive order declaring Mesa’s Williams Gateway Airport a military reuse zone.

A proposal to keep the San Francisco Giants playing spring baseball in Scottsdale by building training facilities on the Coronado Golf Course scored a run with everyone involved Friday.

Donate your used laptops, computers, corporate electronics, cell phones or phone systems, cameras and more to the Technology Reuse Drive to benefit the YMCA 2011 Strong Kids Campaign.

There are words in our vocabulary that are gaining more notice these days – no longer do we just “recycle,” now we repurpose, reuse, and reduce. To recycle we take material and return it to an earlier stage and then convert it to a reusable material. When we repurpose it means we simply take one thing and use it for something other than its intended use. To reuse we take the item and just use it again – like taking a cardboard box you received in the mail and using it again to send your Christmas gift.

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

The Recycle Club at Corona del Sol High School marked Earth Day, April 20, with booths, games and prizes at the Tempe school to raise awareness about recycling and how it benefits the planet.

Le Templar: Mesa councilman Dennis Kavanaugh is suggesting the city should seize Fiesta Village and get on with re-using it. This proposal offers something that always was missing in the case of Bailey's Brake Shop — a legitimate public use for the land. But not so fast. 

Mesa residents can get rid of household hazardous waste April 14, when the city will collect a wide range of substances.

Mesa residents can get rid of household hazardous waste Saturday, Feb. 4, when the city will collect a wide range of substances. The free event is scheduled from 8 a.m. to noon at the East Mesa Service Center, 6953 E. Decatur St., which is east of Power Road and north of University Drive.

"Recycle" and "reuse" have become buzzwords that should remain with us for a long time, and for good reason. Remember the wise phrase "Waste not, want not"? "Recycle and reuse" comes from the same principle.

Arizona State University is demolishing a former bank building at Rural Road and Apache Boulevard, to the dismay of historic preservationists who had urged the university to preserve the structure because of its unusual architecture.