Tempe AZ

A newly deployed speed monitoring camera was battered and pushed over Tuesday, less than two weeks after it was installed. The vandalized camera was one of 17 placed throughout Phoenix in late February, as part of a city safety campaign that aims to alter driver behavior and supplement police traffic enforcement.

A small plane struck a house in northern Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday morning, reportedly injuring three people. That definitely is not how you want to start your day. According to fire officials, the Piper PA-28 had a mechanical problem after taking off from Deer Valley Airport and smashed into the house while...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Temperatures will be on the move over the next week in the Phoenix area, with several cool-downs and warm-ups in the forecast. Highs will reach the mid-80s Wednesday afternoon, with overnight lows dipping into the mid- to upper-50s. Winds will increase across the Valley on Thursday, blowing from...

A Haitian man in ICE custody at the Florence Correctional Complex died in a hospital in Scottsdale on Monday. The family of 56-year-old Emmanuel Damas said federal agents neglected his care. Damas’ younger brother, Presly Nelson, says he was picked up by ICE after Boston police arrested him on domestic...

It wasn't so long ago that a driver on Loop 303 would see only desert as far as the eye could see and only occasionally pass another car. Just 10 years after the freeway opened in north Phoenix and Peoria, traffic engineers are predicting the road could be impassable by 2040 ― if not sooner ― thanks to an explosion...

PHOENIX — La Victoria Commons, Tempe’s newest affordable housing apartment community, is now open. The project was 20 years in the making after the city purchased the land on the northeast corner of Apache Boulevard and Price Road in 2006. Mesa-based nonprofit Copa Health developed 104 affordable apartments...

GLOBE, AZ — A suspect in the shooting death of a Globe teenager on New Year's Day has been arrested. The Gila County Sheriff's Office announced DeShawn Tarango was taken into custody on Tuesday by the U.S. Marshals Task Force at a home in Mesa. Last month, an arrest...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - A Valley man has been arrested after being accused of stalking his ex-wife and causing nearly $100,000 in property damage. Jaime Rodriguez, 44, is facing four counts of stalking and four counts of endangerment. Officers believe Rodriguez may have used a slingshot to break 20 windows at a...

MESA — The Mesa Police Department received nearly half a million dollars in federal funding for technology upgrades to improve response times. The $431,000 came after U.S. Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., submitted a Community Project Funding request for gunshot detectors last year. “Public safety is the highest priority...

The body of an Arizona mother was found on her neighbor's doorstep, with her husband running outside to see her shot dead after noticing police lights through a window while inside with their seven kids. An agent with the state attorney general's office was "involved" in the shooting, according to police.