Mesa AZ

PHOENIX — A car transporting bees hit a pedestrian and then crashed into a pole on Saturday morning in the East Valley, authorities said. According to the Mesa Police Department, officers were dispatched to an accident at the intersection of Mesa Drive and McKellips Road just after 9 a.m.

In a notable turn of events, the city of Tempe has outpaced its neighbors in the Valley when it comes to slashing violent crime rates, per the latest figures from the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Reporting a significant 21% drop in violent crime for the first half of 2025 compared to the same timeframe in...

MESA, AZ (AZFamily) — The US 60 has reopened after a crash that closed the roadway for multiple hours for early morning travelers in the East Valley on Saturday morning. According to the Arizona Department of Transportation, the crash was reported around 6 a.m. on the eastbound lanes of US 60 between Mesa and Stapley...

Brandy Baker watched the familiar tableau as other homeless people like herself lined up outside the Phoenix Key Campus downtown. A group huddled around a speaker as rap music blared. People walking down the sidewalk stepped over others using the cracked pavement as a bed. Baker has been living on...

Unfortunately, most women are never safe no matter where they are. They could get attacked at their work, for example, and this is what happened to two Arizona women. One of the women shared how they were working at a restaurant in Gilbert when they got assaulted by a customer. The man had his wife with him as they...

A 46-year-old Phoenix resident and Iraqi native received a maximum six-year prison sentence Friday on a hate crime charge for playing out plans to bomb Christian churches in three states.

Another person has died from injuries sustained during a fire in Hermosillo last weekend — bringing the death toll to 24, including six children. The latest victim of the deadly fire at a store in the center of Hermosillo is 81-year-old Marco Segundo Reyes. Segundo Reyes was hospitalized in...

PHOENIX - A 33-year-old woman was found dead inside her Phoenix apartment on Wednesday, and investigators need help figuring out what happened. The Nov. 5 scene was at an apartment complex near 43rd Avenue and Bell Road, and when officers arrived around 12:15 p.m., they found Elizabeth Powell, 33, dead, with a...

Former ASU student Kaci Sloan was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Friday for stabbing a student before class on the West Valley campus in September 2024. Sloan pleaded guilty to two felony charges, and she will serve the sentences concurrently, with two years and three months for disorderly conduct with a deadly...

TEMPE, Ariz. — A 20-year veteran with Tempe Fire Medical Rescue died Friday morning after an ongoing battle with Glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer, according to the city's fire department. John Garza, whose last assignment was on Engine 273 at Station 3, died at the age of 52.