Tempe AZ

Music icon will.i.am is teaching a course on Agentic artificial intelligence at Arizona State University. The course focuses on using private "agents" rather than chatbots to help students accomplish tasks and solve complex societal problems. The Black Eyed Peas frontman aims to use AI to combat job displacement and...

Tempe voted to approve a 60-day trial of Axon’s automated license plate readers (ALPRs), making it the latest Arizona city to look for alternatives to Flock Safety cameras.

The Shop Beer Co., the Tempe brewery known for Church Music Hazy IPA and Crispy Blonde Lager, is expanding. The brewer has taken over PHX Beer Co.’s former downtown Phoenix facility on 30th and Washington streets. Unlike the former occupant, The Shop’s team isn’t planning to run a tasting room from the space.

A small plane that crashed into two Phoenix homes last month, injuring three people, appeared to have lost engine power moments after takeoff, federal investigators said. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report that the Piper PA-28-140 experienced rapidly declining engine performance...

In Arizona, new restaurants open and close before the menus even get a chance to wear in. This place is different. It never tried to keep up in the first place. Not by reinventing itself, but by choosing not to. The sauce tastes exactly like it did thirty years ago....

At around 11 p.m. on February 5, 2023, officers were called to Steele Indian School Park and found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound in her running vehicle. She was later pronounced dead.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Two motorcyclists were arrested after allegedly driving more than 115 mph on a major Phoenix freeway last week, with one rider leading troopers on a short chase. On March 29, an Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper was on an overpass along Loop 202 near Sky...

PHOENIX (InvestigateTV) — A Phoenix woman fell victim to an elaborate phone scam that left her almost on the hook for nearly $7,300 worth of cell phones after a fraudster posed as an AT&T representative. Sheryl Johnson had been experiencing trouble with her phone service and mentioned it to...

This week’s Dirty Dining roundup did not do any favors for Phoenix's appetites. Maricopa County inspectors reportedly found a dead lobster in a tank, expired chicken, and several other major safety lapses at Valley eateries. Those violations, which included missing sanitizer at prep stations and foods held at unsafe...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — One of the men allegedly involved in the shootout with Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents in Phoenix earlier this year has been indicted for attempted murder, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Eduardo Valenzuela Lopez, 33, of Sonora, Mexico, who investigators said was in...