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He East Valley Institute of Technology last week asked a judge to dispense with a hearing and use the court filings to decide the lawsuit filed by nine East Valley school districts against it. And according to the “motion for judgment on the pleadings,” EVIT said there’s only one way...

TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily) — One person is dead, and another is in the hospital after a wrong-way crash on an East Valley freeway early Sunday morning. The Arizona Department of Public Safety says the collision happened on the westbound US 60 collector distributor lanes from the SR 143, as it parallels Interstate 10.

Tempe police released intense body cam footage showing the moment officers finally reeled in a Corvette driver who blasted through city streets at a jaw-dropping 142 mph. The incident, which unfolded September 9, features a white C8 Corvette roaring across the Mill Avenue Bridge, its exhaust echoing over Tempe Town...

Hikers and bikers who use Dove Valley Trail in Scottsdale may want to consider other options while the city does some work to reduce wildfire risk and improve emergency access. Work on the Dove Valley Trail began earlier this month and is expected to last about three to four weeks.

Plans for a new 568-unit apartment complex at Cooley Station were presented this month to the Gilbert Planning Commission. The complex would be located on 20.24 acres on the southwest corner of Williams Field Road and Verde Drive, just west of the Cooley Station’s retail and commercial portion. It...

A Saturday night confrontation with Apache Junction police ended in a deadly exchange of gunfire, leaving one person dead at the scene. No officers were reported injured in the shootout. What police said. According to FOX 10 Phoenix, the shooting happened around 7:30 p.m. near Shiprock Street and Main Drive,...

Have you ever driven hours just for fries? I mean, really good fries-the kind that make you forget about fancy restaurants and gourmet burgers?. If you’ve ever wondered why Arizonans treat their roads like a pilgrimage route, let me whisper this: there’s a diner somewhere in the desert where the fries are basically a...

PHOENIX — Multiplatinum rock band Kansas will take the main stage on the first day of the 2026 Chandler Chamber Ostrich Festival, which will run for two weekends in March. The band that got its start with a self-titled album in 1974 will play at the music festival — which has a new home at Rawhide Western Town and...

Arizona winters call for comfort food, and nothing beats steaming-hot tamales wrapped in corn husks, made with love and tradition. Have you ever had a food memory so vivid, it transports you to a specific time and place?. Maybe it’s the scent of a certain spice, the warmth of a...

Nitro-chilled scoops are headed for the West Valley. Nite Creamery, the California-born ice cream shop that debuted in Tempe last year, is planning a second Phoenix-area location in Surprise. The new shop is set to take over a space at 17865 W. Bell Road and is expected to open in May or June 2026 as the brand’s...