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PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Rescue teams are working to save multiple people trapped in a couple of vehicles in east Phoenix after a second round of thunderstorms hit the Valley Friday evening. Firefighters said a sedan and a pickup truck were stuck in floodwaters on Stanford Drive, north of Camelback...

Four people were struck by lightning Friday morning at an elementary school in El Mirage, Arizona, just outside Phoenix. No children were injured, and all four victims were taken to a local hospital.

Nfl logo on gradient background - Created by the Sports On Tap desk | Source : Sports On Tap (team logos property of their respective owners) No. 2 Chandler absolutely destroyed No. 6 Pinnacle this week in a huge 6A matchup, laying down a marker that every team in the conference needs to pay attention […]

Mesa resident Charod Choice, 42, was arrested and charged with felony bigamy after authorities discovered he married a second woman without divorcing his first wife. Court records indicate Choice married his first wife in Tucson in 2013 and remarried in Phoenix in February 2026, later telling police he failed to obtain a divorce because he could not find her.

Two Flood Watches cover parts of the Phoenix metro, with heavy rainfall and dangerous runoff possible.

LAUREN GILGER: Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta died yesterday at the age of 96. The co-founder of the United Farm Workers union has been fighting for the rights of workers in the fields, Latinos in America, and women’s rights for decades. She was raised in California’s Central Valley, but...

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego is urging families who have lost federal food aid to use a new, free city program that helps them get through the paperwork now required to keep SNAP benefits. “As a parent, I know it’s not kids’ responsibility to put food on the table, and that...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Drivers should prepare for several freeway closures and ramp restrictions across the Valley this weekend for ongoing improvement projects, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation. Drivers are urged to plan ahead, allow extra travel time and use detour routes as needed. Below is the weekend...

A $40-a-head Italian concept launched in tribute to a Phoenix restaurant legend is now eyeing 20 locations across the country. The Sicilian Butcher, the red-sauce chain Joey Maggiore created to honor his father Tomaso Maggiore's decades-long run in Phoenix dining, has received private-equity backing announced in 2022 as it pushes into new states.

Phoenix gets one last warm, mostly dry day Thursday before the weather turns sharply wetter. Temperatures start in the mid-60s and climb to about 86 degrees, but Friday brings a Flood Watch, thunderstorms and a much cooler high near 76. The unsettled pattern then returns for Halloween night and continues into a soggy Sunday.