Ladies and gentlemen, start your summer. More than 20 neighborhood pools across the East Valley make affordable places to while away hot days, and many go beyond basic lap pools to mimic the attractions at pricey water parks.

Mesa wrestling coach Bob Williams has taken multiple trips to Europe (namely Germany), the Middle East and the former Soviet Union during the past couple decades, both with high school kids and international competitors.

Learn to surf — sort of — at Rhodes Aquatic Center in Mesa.

The construction of a private, cable-operated wakeboarding park at Tumbleweed Park in Chandler is being lauded as a revenue producer that reinforces the city's appeal to young people and families.

The construction of a private, cable-operated wakeboarding park at Tumbleweed Park in Chandler is being lauded as a revenue producer that reinforces the city's appeal to young people and families.

More than 20 parks-and-rec-managed facilities make an affordable place to while away hot days.

Alana Smith will show off her skateboarding skills starting Monday in the Disney show, “Next X,” which spotlights young, amateur athletes who could be the next extreme sports stars.

Reading, writing and ripping: These three subjects are part of the everyday curriculum for five East Valley children as they learn in a unique Mesa private school where skateboarding training is given as much time as typical school subjects. 

You can try your hand at wakeboarding, golf, archery and a handful of other sports without ever breaking a sweat.

Spring is boom time in the Valley. Cool things to do crowd the calendar like kernels on a corncob. With so many choices, we’re offering up some of our top picks for April. So mark your datebook, quick, before our boom town turns to a ghost town come summer.

Kid Rock, 3 Doors Down and the All-American Rejects will headline the seventh annual Tempe Music Festival, which will run April 3-4 at Tempe Beach Park.

Phillip Soven, 19, of Longwood, Fla., and Nicola Butler, 16, from Cape Town, South Africa, have once again proven to be unstoppable this season, as both pro wakeboarders extended their streaks to four consecutive Tour victories by claiming the top spots in Sunday's finals at the MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour stop at Firebird Lake in Chandler.

Imagine soaring 20 feet over one of Arizona’s waterways and turning a series of flips before splashing, perfectly balanced, back onto the cool blue surface. This is no tube ride down the Salt River. It’s wakeboarding — an extreme sport you can get an up-close look at this weekend.

The Waveyard water park and resort is a $250 million development that would draw tourists from across Arizona and around the U.S.

PAGE - Two unrelated accidents on Lake Powell killed one woman and left a man in critical condition over the weekend, National Park Service spokesman Kevin Schneider said.

A Mesa group known for opposing big development projects in the Riverview area recently pledged its support to the Waveyard project, even as the pot of financial incentives was sweetened on the proposed resort.

The Waveyard resort appears headed to Mesa’s Riverview area, ending a monthslong battle with Surprise to land the unique development.

Starting a business takes a lot of energy. And Scottsdale residents Mike Jannicelli, 24, and Jordan Harwood, 30, are in the business of selling energy — in a 16-ounce can.