Mesa AZ

Three people drowned after being swept away by flash flooding in New Mexico early Wednesday, police say, as more rounds of unusually intense rain target the Southwest.

Storms across the Valley dumped buckets of rain, prompting flash flood warnings across most of Arizona. The downpours caused white outs on freeways and severe flooding in Scottsdale late Wednesday afternoon.

A Peoria man is accused of fraudulently billing Arizona’s Medicaid program more than $33 million and receiving about $19.7 million in payments over a year, federal prosecutors said. Maurice Marcell Williams, 48, was indicted earlier this month by a federal grand jury on 11 counts, according to the U.S....

One Phoenix cop arrested a Black Wall Street Journal reporter, and the writer ended up getting a $100,000 apology. The police officer accused Dion Rabouin of trespassing while interviewing bank customers about their savings habits back in 2022. Chase Bank employees discovered that Rabouin was a Wall Street Journal repo

MESA, AZ — A Mesa community gathered Tuesday night to mark 25 years since the killing of Balbir Singh Sodhi, a gas station owner who was murdered four days after the Sept. 11 attacks by a man who intended to kill Middle Eastern people. The memorial service was held...

Down a dusty, rock-strewn road in the Sonoran Desert, a black bear licks peanut butter off a paw while a small group of visitors watches, hushed and amazed. This is a place where mountain lions, wolves, coyotes, and bobcats each carry a rescue story, and where the animals come first, always.

For nearly nine years, Lou Malnati’s served Chicago-style Italian eats at Uptown Plaza. Soon, a New York-style Italian restaurant will take its place. This fall, DiMaggio’s is set to make its debut at the heart of the shopping center on Camelback Road and Central Avenue. It will be the second Valley location of the res

He patrolled the Beeline Highway for most of the 28 years he worked for the Arizona Department of Public Safety. This created a certain sad symmetry. Bob Martin, murdered in the line of duty on an August afternoon in 1995, grew up by Saguaro Lake, only a few miles from where he bled out, sprawled on the highway’s hot.

Craving a foldable New York slice while living under the Arizona sun can feel like a losing battle. Too many places serve pizza that is either too thick, too doughy, or too far from the real thing. The good news is that a handful of shops across the state actually...

MESA, AZ (AZFamily) — A suspected impaired driver killed one person overnight Wednesday after crashing into two vehicles stopped on a Mesa freeway for a flat tire, authorities say. The Arizona Department of Public Safety says the crash happened around 1 a.m. on the eastbound lanes of the US...