Gilbert AZ

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — After several months of training, the next generation of Arizona fire captains are ready to lead their crews!. Nearly two dozen East Valley firefighters completed their training at the captain’s academy. Fifteen firefighters from the Gilbert Fire Department and eight from Queen Creek Fire...

Tucked along North Arizona Avenue in Chandler, Merchant Square is one of those places you stumble into thinking you’ll spend twenty minutes and somehow end up staying for hours. With over 200 vendors packed into a sprawling indoor marketplace, this antique lover’s paradise is full of surprises at every turn.

Marianne Robb retired from the Gilbert Police Department in 2021, after 34 years in law enforcement. But she’s still working with police officers. A few years ago, she and another former officer, Dave Rich, started an organization they call UAP PD — the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Police Department. They take...

Students gathered March 6 at the ASU Police Department Headquarters in Tempe for the final day of a free, three-day course focused on teaching women self-defense. Jason Weber, the crime prevention programs manager, said the R.A.D. class, which stands for rape aggression defense, instructs participants on basic...

A Career and Technical Education biomedical science teacher, a behavioral specialist and over a dozen instructional coaches are some of the 50 Mesa Public Schools employees who won’t be returning to work after the academic year ends. The Governing Board without comment voted 4-0-1 to approve the layoffs Feb....

Arizona is home to some seriously incredible cinnamon rolls, and locals have strong opinions about where to find the best ones. My ideal weekend starts with a hot cup of coffee and a pastry so good I immediately start planning when I can have it again. I take the search...

QUEEN CREEK, AZ (AZFamily) — Construction continues to boom in the far East Valley, and now there’s even more shops and restaurants headed for Queek Creek’s first walkable downtown district. Real estate developers for “The Switchyard,” a 10-acre mixed-use space at Ellsworth and Ocotillo roads, announced Tuesday...

PHOENIX, Arizona — A Zipps Sports Grill hiring manager who was charged during the January HSI raids of the 14 locations across the Valley pleaded guilty to identity fraud in federal court today. Diego Gonzalez-Rosales, 36, was originally charged with knowingly hiring employees living in the country illegally,...

CHANDLER, Ariz. — The man found guilty of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in Chandler has been sentenced to decades in prison. Dexter Greyer, 28, was recently sentenced in court to 60 years in prison after a jury convicted him of offenses committed in January 2024, officials said.

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