Mesa AZ

MESA, Ariz. — Mesa police will conduct increased DUI enforcement operations May 5 as part of the annual Cinco de Mayo DUI Task Force, a valley-wide effort to reduce impaired driving during the holiday. Officers will be deployed during peak hours from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. The operation...

An early-morning armed robbery in Phoenix turned into a more-than-30-mile police pursuit that ended in Buckeye on Sunday, according to authorities. The suspect vehicle crashed near the Watson Road exit, leading to the apprehension of five adolescents. One of them was brought to the hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.

Florence + The Machine are gearing up to turn Glendale into their own desert cathedral this spring, as the Everybody Scream Tour storms into Desert Diamond Arena on Saturday, May 9. The arena stop is set to deliver a big, cinematic sweep of new tracks and fan favorites, with punk-charged Mannequin Pussy on opening duties. Across the Phoenix area, fans are already blocking off...

PHOENIX – A group of Valley parents launched a nonprofit to take over their children’s school charter after the former charter holder fell into financial disarray. Phoenix Modern is a K-8 charter school that operates with a “whole child framework,” or the belief that children are learners on their own journey. Students are referred to as “learners” and teachers as “guides.”

PHOENIX — Travelers heading to Sky Harbor International Airport today may be facing a delay. The Phoenix airport presently has over 150 flights listed as "delayed" on its 48-hour schedule. FlightAware, a website tracking travel delays throughout the country, showed Sky Harbor reporting several delays on April 27. One...

Late Saturday in Phoenix's Melrose District, a car slammed into a small auto shop on North 7th Avenue and erupted in flames, leaving the storefront badly charred and the owner stunned. Neighbors rushed toward the wreck and helped pull a man from the vehicle just before the flames took over. Fire crews moved in to extinguish the blaze, and police shut down the block...

Technical rescue crews from both Phoenix and Tempe rushed to the Cholla Trailhead on Camelback Mountain on Monday after reports of an injured hiker, according to the Phoenix Fire Department. A public information officer was sent to the scene, and officials said they would share more details as they become available.

An early morning crash at the intersection of 15th Avenue and Broadway Road in Phoenix left one person dead on Monday after a car slammed into a pole and burst into flames. Phoenix Fire crews knocked down the fire and first responders found a person inside the vehicle, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The intersection stayed closed for hours as it turned...

In late January, the Mesa Fire and Medical Department responded to a medical call at a lesser known U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, where it found such severe overcrowding that it gave ICE a list of corrections it needed to make. ICE said that the 238 people records show were detained that day at […]

MESA, AZ — A Mesa Police Department sergeant with 18 years of service has been charged with hindering prosecution after allegedly warning a drug dealer about an impending SWAT raid, allowing the suspect to hide significant quantities of drugs and an illegal firearm. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office has...