When it comes to public transportation, residents told researchers that Scottsdale is at the back of the bus.

Maricopa County Sheriff's investigators were looking for an inmate from Mesa who was missing from the Tent City jail on Tuesday.

Maricopa County Sheriff's investigators were looking for an inmate from Mesa who was missing from the Tent City jail on Tuesday.

City employees are noticing more graffiti around Scottsdale, but it’s not due to an increase in the crime, officials say. Scottsdale is making it a priority for city staff to report any graffiti they see around the city, said Malcolm Hankins, code enforcement manager for Scottsdale.

City employees are noticing more graffiti around Scottsdale, but it’s not due to an increase in the crime, officials say. Scottsdale is making it a priority for city staff to report any graffiti they see around the city, said Malcolm Hankins, code enforcement manager for Scottsdale.

Chandler Councilman Martin Sepulveda is offering to repay three years worth of personal cell phone calls he charged to the city, but it’s unknown how much that will be, because his billing records are unavailable.

Professional Medical Transport outscored its leading rival by a wide margin last month in the competition to become Scottsdale’s 911 response firm, city records released Friday show.

January 7, 2005

Mesa and Chandler officials said Arizona Department of Transportation officials didn’t tell the public it would build shorter sound walls when it made a deal with federal officials to pave freeways with rubberized asphalt.

When Bill Sandry went to Apache Junction City Hall to get a development permit, he was told he could only get one if he agreed to waive one of Arizona’s newest property rights.

LORAIN, OHIO - He glances through the chain-link fence at hulking, dark buildings and weeds growing tall in pavement cracks. The chilling scene on a gray November day makes John “Larry” Wargo sigh with sadness.

A $3 million plan to blanket Lompoc, Calif., with a wireless Internet system promised a quantum leap for economic development: The remote community hit hard by cutbacks at nearby Vandenberg Air Force Base would join the 21st century with cheap and plentiful high-speed access.

Mesa police are looking for a 32-year-old man on suspicion of first-degree murder after a 22-year-old man was found shot to death in a Mesa alley Thursday.

In an effort to reassess water fluoridation, some City Council members have requested new data on Phoenix’s fluoride-treated water that serves more than 1.4 million residents.

Commuters living in south Chandler say they’re feeling boxed in their subdivisions by ongoing construction projects that have torn up roads and left rough, unpaved detours in their wake.

Commuters living in south Chandler say they’re feeling boxed in their subdivisions by ongoing construction projects that have torn up roads and left rough, unpaved detours in their wake.

LOS ANGELES - Writer Candace Bushnell of "Sex and the City" fame is developing an hourlong series for NBC about the familiar topic of women in New York, the network said Tuesday.

Scottsdale wants to survey more city workers to see how it rates on morale issues and workplace conditions.

As the days count down to the start of Arizona’s employer sanctions law, East Valley cities are struggling to get ready for their duties despite a litany of questions and a pending lawsuit.

A new city-produced television program called "Talking Trash" aims to promote reducing and recycling Phoenix's garbage.

Mesa City Hall came to the people on Saturday. Officials from 20 city departments gathered inside Mesa's Fiesta Mall for the second "City Hall at the Mall" event.

The search for Chandler’s next city attorney began in earnest Monday as City Council members interviewed three potential candidates for the job.

The City of Maricopa declared a state of emergency Thursday as a massive fire at a tire recycling plant sent up thick smoke that could be seen from across the East Valley.

The City of Maricopa declared a state of emergency Thursday as a massive fire at a tire recycling plant sent up thick smoke that could be seen from across the East Valley.