As food banks nationwide rushed supplies to Louisiana and Mississippi in the wake of Gulf Coast hurricanes, few thought twice about its effect on the holidays. But with Thanksgiving looming this week, at least one prominent Valley food bank is worried that donors are fatigued.

Every first and third Saturday, hundreds of people line up at Main Street and Extension Road in Mesa to receive bags of food from Resurrection Street Ministry/Manna Food Bank.

The Association of Arizona Food Banks (AAFB), along with its member food banks throughout the state have announced the release of specialty license plates, "Ending Hunger One Plate at a Time."

As the holiday season transforms into a new year, citrus trees will blossom and create a need to glean their trees of excess fruit.

Sally Heneley has been ringing a bell for the Salvation Army for six years. In years past, she said, people freely gave a dollar or two. This year: nickels and dimes.

Kathy Breen opened the refrigerator doors at Scottsdale's Vista del Camino Community Center and saw empty shelves that would normally be stocked with meat and eggs. But these aren't normal times and economic woes have hit the region's nonprofit organizations especially hard.

As food banks in the East Valley experience shortages, businesses and organizations in the community are stepping up to help fill the shelves. In Gilbert, some much-needed help is coming from Farm Bureau Financial Services Cactus Agency.

As the U.S. economy emerged from a deep recession more than two years ago, Faye Taylor found herself living in Chandler without a job, riding her bike to Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank on Arizona Avenue each month to pick up two large bags of groceries.

Morgan and Suzanne Davis have 17 orange trees that needed picking. The east Mesa couple had plenty of oranges that weren’t lost to the frost, but they couldn’t pick all the oranges themselves.

Getting water from a faucet is something we all take for granted. Thanks to the bold thinkers behind the Salt River and Central Arizona projects, daily conveniences like water are accessible in our desert environment.

The number of families receiving food stamps in Maricopa County has soared 15 percent in the past year and nearly doubled since 2002. Statewide, the figures are much the same, with nearly one in 10 Arizonans on food stamps, giving the state the distinction of having among the fastest-growing rolls in the country.

On behalf of those in our community to who struggle each month to consistently keep food on their family's table, I want to thank you in advance for your participation in the annual "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive, sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers.

The number of Arizona families asking for food boxes is increasing significantly, charity groups say.

Programs that provide free summer meals to low-income children in Arizona are becoming rarer, leaving families that depend on school lunch programs in a bind during summer vacation.

Programs that provide free summer meals to low-income children in Arizona are becoming rarer, leaving families that depend on school lunch programs in a bind during summer vacation.

It’s getting cold in Arizona, a fact that raises thermostats here and eyebrows across the country. Most Americans believe Arizona is always sunny and warm in the winter and sunny and unbearable in the summer.

Tom Patrick is the E.F. Hutton of Arizona golf. When the founding father of the state’s watchdog Golf Industry Association speaks, people listen.

More than two dozen Tribune journalists were honored for their work by the Arizona Press Club at the group’s annual banquet Saturday night.

All it takes is a quick trip to your mailbox to participate in Arizona’s largest single-day food drive, one which helps St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance and Valley View Community Food Bank in Youngtown survive during the long, hot summer.

All it takes is a quick trip to your mailbox to participate in Arizona’s largest single-day food drive, one which helps St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance and Valley View Community Food Bank in Youngtown survive during the long, hot summer.

All it takes is a quick trip to your mailbox to participate in Arizona’s largest single-day food drive, one which helps St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance and Valley View Community Food Bank in Youngtown survive during the long, hot summer.

WASHINGTON - There’s nothing simple about Phoenix resident Alex Turley’s simple trip to the grocery store to buy the basics.

Auto insurance claims adjuster Rex Fuhrmann thought he was stretching his paycheck as far as he could while striving to raise his three sons alone in their Chandler apartment.

The recent dire statistics for Arizona - one in five people in the state lives in poverty, and the unemployment rate is the highest in three decades - came as no surprise to those on the front lines of the battle.