You can be a part of preventing child abuse and helping heal kids who have been hurt by volunteering at Mesa's Child Crisis Center. Through several programs, the agency supports and strengthens families, provides a safe place for children to heal, and recruits, trains and supports foster and adoptive families.

A recent report on home-price declines is an excellent basis for assessing our persistent economic catastrophe. A recorded 30 percent ($6-trillion-plus) drop since the 2006 peak has plunged home prices back to 1990s’ levels. Continuing, unabated foreclosures could readily drop prices even further.

A recent report on home-price declines is an excellent basis for assessing our persistent economic catastrophe. A recorded 30 percent ($6-trillion-plus) drop since the 2006 peak has plunged home prices back to 1990s’ levels. Continuing, unabated foreclosures could readily drop prices even further.

The East Valley Child Crisis Center holds a “slab party” at 10 a.m. today to celebrate pouring the concrete slab on its new Family Resource Center.

With their tummies nearly touching, the teenagers wedge their pregnant selves into the walk-in closet that has been transformed into a baby store at Tempe’s Compadre High School.

With their tummies nearly touching, the teenagers wedge their pregnant selves into the walk-in closet that has been transformed into a baby store at Tempe’s Compadre High School.

Two years ago, Julia Zimmerman went to the emergency room at Banner Desert Medical Center because her blood pressure was out of control.

President Bush and his allies would like the experts to find a crisis in Social Security to help sell the president's private accounts and other Social Security reforms. This week the experts found a crisis, all right, but it wasn't Social Security; it was Medicare.

It would appear the East Valley is in the midst of a crisis — several crises, really.

More state officials are saying Arizona should have a law against price gouging during emergencies such as last week’s severe gasoline shortage that struck the Valley.

Bring the family to see “The Magic of Christmas,” a musical Christmas production featuring a multi-talented cast of Valley performers, at 7 p.m. Friday and 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday at Theatre Artists Studio in Paradise Valley at 4848 E. Cactus Ave., Scottsdale.

The debate over a city-proposed 7 percent water rate hike completes a trilogy of misinformation over tax and rate increases you have seen this past year and poses serious concerns over Phoenix's credibility with taxpayers.

The debate over a city-proposed 7 percent water rate hike completes a trilogy of misinformation over tax and rate increases you have seen this past year and poses serious concerns over Phoenix's credibility with taxpayers.

Analysis: Greece is a financial basket case, begging for international help. Is America heading down that same road?

The ability of Arizonans to form new corporations will start to slow within days - and come to a screeching halt some time after - unless lawmakers fix their budget, according to the chair of the Arizona Corporation Commission.

SAN DIEGO — Six months ago, Jim Wiseman didn't even have a spare nutrition bar in his kitchen cabinet.

What's been billed by the governor as an "unprecedented community discussion on Arizona's budget crisis" Thursday includes comments from only those chosen by the leaders of a major state economic development group.