Chandler plans to celebrate a new pregnancy center with a "Hands of Mercy" banquet at the Crowne Plaza San Marcos Resort. The banquet will take place on October 30.

Acommunity’s oldest residents are among its most precious assets. And yet outside of the perennial debate over Social Security and Medicare, many other issues affecting the elderly don’t get the public attention that other causes do. But the priorities are about to shift by necessity.

Becky Kuhn won’t be carrying cardboard boxes filled with her office supplies when she moves from her current work station at the Banner Mesa Medical Center to her new office at the Banner Gateway facility in Gilbert.

Developers of the planned ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center are scaling back the project’s signature element — "SkySong."

Developers of the planned ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center are scaling back the project’s signature element — "SkySong."

A handful of experts took the podium Thursday during the grand opening of the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in downtown Phoenix.

When you touch a life, you touch eternity. Life’s greatest wealth is not money, it is the lives you touch. Let me tell you a story about touching lives — not just any lives, but really the least, the last and the lost.

Plans to designate historic status to the Kerr Cultural Center in Scottsdale were temporarily stalled Thursday night over a legal technicality.

Plenty of us have asked ourselves, as we swatted away flies that kept landing on our picnic sandwiches, “Just what are flies good for, anyway?”

Voter approval of the state’s first minimum wage filled us with trepidation even before the revelation that Proposition 202’s language did not exempt “sheltered workshops,” where developmentally disabled workers are paid subminimum wages for work they can’t perform at the same pace as a nondisabled counterpart.

Have you ever gotten a utility bill that was far higher than you expected to pay? Imagine if the charges were $45,000 higher than usual —and taxpayers had to foot the bill.