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A portion of Loop 101 is shut down in the northwestern part of the Valley on Wednesday morning due to a vehicle fire investigation. The closure was put in place in the southbound lanes near Union Hills Drive, Arizona Department of Public Safety officials say. There is no estimated reopening time.

Air traffic control audio captured the moment a pilot of a small plane was forced to make an emergency landing due to engine problems near a busy intersection in Mesa. FOX 10's Steve Nielsen speaks with witnesses who heard the plane come to a screeching stop.

First responders were called to reports of the crash around 7:30 a.m. on Camelback Road near the Interstate 17 access road. Seven people were hospitalized.

Scottsdale is making a new push to improve downtown and Old Town. More than 40 small business owners are now helping shape how city funding could be used. The big question: what should visitors find when they get to Old Town?

If you opened my trunk, you’d likely find an emergency kit of napkins and a stack of menus from every pizza joint I’ve “investigated” over the last decade. I consider myself a crust connoisseur, a professional critic of the cheese-to-sauce ratio, and a skeptic of anything that claims to be “the best.”

On a hot afternoon in Phoenix, the air above the asphalt shimmers. You can smell it: that acrid, petroleum-thick scent that clings to the back of your throat. Most people assume it burns off harmlessly, carried away by the same breeze that makes the heat bearable. Elham Fini spent years assuming the same thing, more or less. Then she started actually measuring what...

GLENDALE, Ariz. - A woman is in custody after authorities say a body with a gunshot wound was found inside a burned car on a freeway in Glendale. Just after 10:30 p.m. on April 21, the Arizona Department of Public Safety says troopers responded to a car fire on southbound Loop 101 near Union Hills Drive. DPS says a woman was standing outside the...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A woman was killed, and a man has been arrested following a crash overnight in central Phoenix. The pedestrian crash happened around 9 p.m. Tuesday near 16th Street and Indian School Road. Officers found that a driver tried to leave after hitting the woman with a...

Phoenix has once again earned a failing grade from the American Lung Association in the organization's annual rankings of air quality across the U.S. According to this year’s State of the Air report, Phoenix is the fourth-smoggiest city in the U.S. Phoenix had no improvement from last year, when the city also ranked fourth-worst for ozone pollution.

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