The era of the weather balloon, both a decadesold useful scientific tool and a convenient out for government officials to explain an unidentified flying object, may be coming to an end.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Robin Roberts has been honored in New York for sharing her cancer treatment experience with millions of television viewers.

The Beatles. Serial killers. A history of tea. This summer, local colleges offer a bevy of classes to help you shift focus from your tan to your brain.

General Motors will open a new information technology innovation center in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler and begin hiring what will eventually be 1,000 high-tech employees to staff the new location beginning in April, the company announced Wednesday.

ROSWELL, Ga. - UPS, FedEx and other delivery companies will be getting help from millions of customers this holiday season.

The Florence Unified School District has filled three principal positions for the 2007-08 school year after choosing not to renew the contracts of three current principals.

Four Coronado High School alumni are living the motto of a play they will perform to raise scholarship money for students.

K.R. Scott isn’t sure how much longer he will be teaching at Mountain Pointe. But you can be sure his legacy will live on long after he’s hung it up.

“I just drove by SkySong, or the Center for Technology and Innovation. I have never seen a more boring, less innovative building than that box they’ve got sitting out on that SkySong.”

Inside a swank steakhouse in the ritzy Biltmore district of Phoenix, a group of local power brokers met last spring to raise money for Chandler Mayor Boyd Dunn.

Inside a swank steakhouse in the ritzy Biltmore district of Phoenix, a group of local power brokers met last spring to raise money for Chandler Mayor Boyd Dunn.

"They came from outer space," claims David Salman, who sent out a press release that claims he discovered a unique group of extraterrestrial plants in an unmapped meteor crater just west of Roswell, N.M., of all places. Though he discusses it at length on YouTube, we cactophiles know it was all a tongue-in-cheek marketing campaign to encourage people to take a fresh look at the importance of our precious native cacti.

Guest commentary by Tina Dupuy

Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin summon antidemocratic images of a communist state to attack Democrat Barack Obama's tax plan and his comment about spreading the wealth around. But in her home state, Palin embraces Alaska's own version of doing just that.

SAN FRANCISCO - Hundreds of wildfires sparked by lightning flared Sunday across the heart of wine country and remote forests in Northern California, the latest batch of destructive blazes in the bone-dry state.

Extraordinary weather in New Mexico is leaving Arizona with better access to the equipment and machinery needed to fight wildfires in the state.

PHOENIX - Vice President Dick Cheney criticized Democrats during a speech at an Arizona Republican Party fundraiser here Tuesday, saying the party "turned its back" on Sen. Joe Lieberman and would abandon Iraq if it had its way.

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.

John Anderson remembers rowing into the burning water around the USS Arizona, searching in vain for a twin brother later found among the battleship’s nearly 1,200 dead in the Pearl Harbor attack. But he also has fond memories of his time on the Arizona, such as attending navigation and meteorology classes with shipmates.

BALTIMORE - He’s got plenty of free time and still is being paid handsomely by the Baltimore Orioles, so there’s really no limit to what Leo Mazzone can do this spring.

Two decades ago, the Rev. John Rodgers launched a New Age seminary because he found people to be “good-hearted, well-meaning ‘eager-norants,’ ” excited believers woefully lacking information about religion and spirituality.