Glendale AZ

Sometimes chefs grind and iterate on a dish until it’s just right. But there are moments when everything clicks. As Pretty Penny chef Steven “Chops” Smith pondered how to update the restaurant’s crudo for the warmer months, his mind wandered to the pineapple fermenting in the kitchen — a project he’d started to use up some excess fruit.

In the droll Wes Anderson movie “Rushmore,” Max joins every extracurricular activity he can find – inventing some, to boot. But he is placed on "sudden death academic probation” for spending all his time on the fun stuff and ignoring school work. Not so, Vedang Chintalapati.

Rain and melted snow from mountain forests in northern and eastern Arizona pass through the Verde River system and into Horseshoe and Bartlett dams, where the water is transported by Salt River Project’s canals to water taps in the Valley. But over seven decades, that water has been depositing...

The staff and teachers at City High and Paulo Freire Schools are allowed to unionize, according to a federal ruling on Friday — paving the way for more charter schools in Arizona to form unions. The ruling by the National Labor Relations Board, says the group — about 40...

Spring Mountain Ranch State Park closes due to water outage.

AVONDALE, Ariz. — A man was hospitalized after a shooting in the West Valley on Monday, the city's police department said. Officers responded to a shooting call for service overnight at a party near Avondale Boulevard and Van Buren Street. When officers arrived on the scene, they found a...

PHOENIX — Mendocino Farms, a California-based restaurant known for its sandwiches and salads, is opening two more locations in Arizona. The fast-casual chain is opening a location at the Promenade Scottsdale, near Scottsdale and Bell roads. This location is set to open June 2. Mendocino Farms is also opening...

PHOENIX — From the state honoring first responders to some of those same first responders handling a large brush fire near Buckeye and more, here are some of the top Arizona news stories from May 1-3. Flags at Arizona’s state buildings will be at half-staff on Sunday and Monday in honor of firefighters and peace officers, Gov. Katie Hobbs announced.

The victim's family was present and his father spoke during the hearing.

A Valley mother is getting credit for pulling a driver from his wrecked car - just moments before the car burst into flames.