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Chandler's city council chamber was charged with tension as residents filled the room, anxiously awaiting a decision on the fate of a proposed $2 billion data center. Officials had to, somehow delicately navigate the needle between technological progress and the preservation of local resources. The waterfront was a...

Officials said it was too dangerous to rescue the man when he was first spotted Tuesday night

MESA, AZ — Joe Rim, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the death of a Mesa teenager, has been sentenced to prison. In court on Friday, Rim received a sentence of 15 years in prison, the maximum possible sentence he could receive as part of a plea agreement for the shooting death of 18-year-old Stephen...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A speeding driver is accused of attempting to race a trooper while his kids were unbuckled in the backseat in the West Valley earlier this month. The Arizona Department of Public Safety says on Dec. 4, a trooper was heading eastbound on I-10 near Citrus Road when he witnessed a driver speeding at...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Firefighters across the Valley are remembering the heroic service of Phoenix Fire Captain Luke Moran, who recently passed away. The Phoenix Fire Department announced Moran’s death on social media on Thursday. No details about his cause of death were provided. “We extend our thoughts and...

GILBERT, AZ (AZFamily) — A man is in the hospital after he was stabbed late Thursday night in Gilbert, and another person is now in custody. Gilbert police officers responded to the reported stabbing in the 1400 block of San Remo Avenue, which is near Guadalupe Road and Val Vista Drive, around 9 p.m. Officers then...

“I didn’t want to die," said survivor Asharie Montgomery

GILBERT, AZ (AZFamily) — A former Gilbert town councilman delivered bombshell allegations, saying that for more than a decade, police intentionally falsified crime stats and town leaders knowingly misled the public to save face. For years, Gilbert ranked as one of America’s safest cities based on the FBI’s Uniform...

The real impact of a proposed Chandler data center on water supplies is a bit fuzzy. Those pushing for a controversial new AI data center in Chandler — a cohort that includes paid not-technically-a-lobbyist Kyrsten Sinema — have made big promises about how it would save the city water.

More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were held captive inside 10 internment camps nationwide during World War II – including two in Arizona, built on Indian reservations by the U.S. War Relocation Authority without tribal consent. On Arizona’s western border, the Colorado River Indian Tribes has made a point to...