It’s déjà vu all over in the long-standing conflict between Mesa and the owner of the long-vacant Fiesta Village shopping center.

Phoenix New Times’ parent company and one of its papers, SF Weekly, have been ordered to pay $15.6 million plus interest to the San Francisco Bay Guardian in that publication’s lawsuit alleging predatory pricing.

Phoenix New Times’ parent company and one of its papers, SF Weekly, have been ordered to pay $15.6 million plus interest to the San Francisco Bay Guardian in that publication’s lawsuit alleging predatory pricing.

Two newspaper executives who were arrested by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office after a series of critical articles can sue the man who calls himself America's toughest sheriff.

Authorities say an undercover drug operation that lasted months in the East Valley resulted in a big prostitution bust involving BackPage.com.

In a rare move late Thursday, Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies arrested two leaders of the largest alternative newspaper chain in the nation, Village Voice Media, because of a story published earlier in the day by the company-owned Phoenix New Times.

Craigslist closed the adult services section of its website Saturday, replacing it with a black bar that says "censored," just over a week after a group of state attorneys general said there weren't enough protections against blocking potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution.

The executive editor of the nation's largest alternative newspaper company angered dozens of Arizona journalists Friday night when he used a racial slur during an awards speech.

Legal filings are often dry, lifeless retellings of crimes or court cases. But a document filed Wednesday in Maricopa County by the Phoenix New Times newspaper tells a story that could be pulled from the pages of a pulp legal thriller.

A state law that makes it a crime to publish the addresses of police officers and certain other people on the Internet will remain on the books — at least for now.

The law which Maricopa County used to investigate the Phoenix New Times is being tested for its constitutionality.

ISLAMABAD - An American U.N. worker abducted more than two months ago turned up unharmed Saturday, lying alongside a road in western Pakistan with his hands and feet bound and pleading "Help me, help me," the man who found him said.

ISLAMABAD - Dozens of followers of Pakistan's top Taliban commander were in a compound when a suspected U.S. missile attack hit Saturday, killing 27 militants in an al-Qaida stronghold near the Afghan border, officials said.

There was a time, not long ago, when a 10-year-old boy could head to a neighborhood fair, get his face painted like a Halloween zombie and blurt out something utterly inane to a local TV news correspondent and nobody would ever think about it again. Oh, there’d be an audience that night, much of which would chuckle and think “Whaaaaa?” But that would be the end of it.

GENEVA - A U.N. summit on information technology wound up Friday as delegates approved two documents long on ambitions but short on funding and strategy for bringing the Internet to poorer regions of the world.

Government antitrust officials would be unwilling to see a newspaper monopoly in the Phoenix area, several newspaper industry experts said in the wake of Freedom Communications’ decision to put its newspapers and television stations up for sale.

In these days when American political partisans are obsessed with making sure their political team wins, and when Justin Bieber’s hair is the subject of thousands of well-read articles on Google, politics and celebrity are momentarily overshadowed elsewhere by the tale of a brave Pakistan girl whose only wish was to go to school — and is battling for her life because of it.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio in September called his agency's high-profile arrest of a Chandler police officer "a tough decision that I had to make."

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, buffeted by a storm of local and national outrage, dropped an investigation Friday against Phoenix New Times and fired the special prosecutor in charge of the case.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The party is over in Vancouver, replaced by an Olympic-sized hangover. The question now is how long the headaches will last.

By Election Day, I’ll have a new grandson to remind me why America needs resilient, conservative voices.

Two women from Islamic countries, with vastly different ways of addressing women’s rights, will speak in the Valley next week.

YANGON, Myanmar - More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar - but so is the heavy rain. A week after Cyclone Nargis flattened low-lying villages and killed whole families at a time, the military junta finally agreed Friday to allow a U.S. cargo plane to bring in food and other supplies to the isolated country.

BOULDER, Colo. — Jon Krakauer has never shied away from assigning blame for blunders, especially fatal blunders. In his best-selling account of a disastrous 1996 climb of Mount Everest, "Into Thin Air," he dished out stinging criticism to a professional guide and even chastised himself.