Scottsdale AZ

I love Scottsdale, but my favorite meals here are rarely the ones with the flashiest patios or the loudest buzz. The best bites usually come from places you could drive past twice without noticing, the kind of spot tucked into a dusty strip mall or sitting quietly behind a gas station turn.

If you’re wandering through the desert and your stomach starts craving something more than tacos and burritos, you’ll quickly discover that Arizona is home to a surprising number of Chinese restaurants that have become neighborhood institutions. Over the years, locals keep returning to the same dozen spots because...

March 8 is International Women’s Day, and what better way to celebrate than by supporting a woman-owned business that has built something truly special from the ground up. Arizona is home to some remarkable women entrepreneurs, and one Scottsdale restaurant stands out as a perfect destination for the occasion.

You know that feeling when you bite into something so good you wonder why you’ve been eating anywhere else?. Joe’s Farm Grill in Gilbert, Arizona delivers that exact experience while you’re literally sitting on a working farm, surrounded by crops that might have been in the ground yesterday and on your plate today.

The 16th Street home of acclaimed Valley restaurant Barrio Cafe has been quiet since chef Silvana Salcido Esparza shut it down at the end of May, 2024. But now, new life is springing up in the famed Valley spot. James Beard Award-winning chef Rene Andrade, the mastermind behind the ever-popular Sonoran wood-fired hub...

Police Seen in Wild Arrest Video Cuffing Two Suspects in Arizona

PHOENIX — Twenty people were arrested on immigration violations as part of an ongoing human smuggling investigation in the Valley, authorities say. Special agents with ICE Homeland Security Investigations and US Border Patrol executed two federal criminal search warrants on two "locations" in north Phoenix on March 2...

Edward Van Ness’ hands shook as he approached the microphone at an Arizona Corporation Commission in downtown Phoenix. On the panel in front of him sat a judge and one of the five members of the commission – which will ultimately determine how much his energy bill costs next year.

Federal immigration agents executed search warrants at a north Phoenix apartment on March 2 and found 23 people inside as part of an ongoing human smuggling investigation, according to authorities. The operation brought a heavy law enforcement presence to the residential block and left neighbors on edge. According to...

Anyone cruising past Scottsdale Fashion Square lately has seen it: cranes swinging, concrete pouring and a once‑empty corner of Old Town finally waking up. That long‑vacant lot at the north end of the district is turning into Hazel and Azure, a pair of luxury apartment buildings from national developer ZOM Living....