Glendale AZ

Last summer, in the thick of the sweltering heat, the thing steaming residents more than June’s triple digits was the abrupt closure of eight Filiberto’s Mexican Food restaurants. Instead of getting their breakfast burrito or carne asada fries, would-be customers found “Closed” signs taped on drive-thru menu boards...

CCSD police arrested substitute teacher Kimberly Ortega after an April 2 incident at West Prep and the district removed her from its substitute pool.

GOODYEAR, AZ (AZFamily) — A woman is recovering after being stabbed Thursday night at an apartment complex in Goodyear. Details are limited. At about 9 p.m., first responders were dispatched to an apartment complex near Litchfield and McDowell roads, according to the Goodyear Police Department. When officers arrived,...

PHOENIX — Multiple people were arrested following an ongoing investigation into suspected drug trafficking in Phoenix, authorities say. >> Download the 12News app for the latest local breaking news straight to your phone. The Arizona Department of Public Safety State Gang Task Force arrested six people near Camelback...

A tractor-trailer driver died after his vehicle was "pierced" with timber in a collision with a log truck. (Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd/X)

For years, the Murphy Elementary School campus in southwest Phoenix sat empty. Now it has been remade into a two-building industrial park called Merit 27 Buckeye, and both buildings are already fully leased. The project replaces a rundown school site on roughly 18 acres near 27th Avenue and Buckeye Road, after months...

LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. — Animals are safe after a large fire burned near the Wildlife World Zoo and Aquarium in Litchfield Park on Thursday afternoon. The fire started on a private property adjacent to several animal enclosures near Northern and Sarival Avenues. >> Live, local, breaking. Download the 12News...

The FBI is cranking up its presence in tribal communities tied to the Phoenix field office, reviving and expanding Operation Not Forgotten with fresh muscle and support staff aimed at long-stalled violent crime cases. In an April 2 announcement, the bureau said it is sending rotating teams of investigators, analysts...

In Arizona, new restaurants open and close before the menus even get a chance to wear in. This place is different. It never tried to keep up in the first place. Not by reinventing itself, but by choosing not to. The sauce tastes exactly like it did thirty years ago....

At around 11 p.m. on February 5, 2023, officers were called to Steele Indian School Park and found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound in her running vehicle. She was later pronounced dead.