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A bridge collapse has killed one person at a Loop 202 construction site in Mesa.
A gun threat forced the evacuation of the theatre at Arizona Mills Mall Tuesday night.
A motorcycle rider died after colliding with a minivan near the intersection of Country Club Drive and McLellan Road in Mesa Wednesday night, Mesa police said.
Arizona’s summer monsoon season presents the most dangerous weather of the year in the state.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says an outbreak of hepatitis A linked to a frozen berry mix sold at Costco has grown to 87 people with illnesses in eight states.
Passengers on a flight from Las Vegas to Phoenix ran into trouble Monday when they got stuck on not just one but two planes trying to get to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in the East Valley.
A "telephonic bomb threat" forced a Southwest flight headed towards Austin, Texas to make an emergency landing in Phoenix.
A "telephonic bomb threat" against a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Austin, Texas, resulted in the plane being diverted to Phoenix on Monday afternoon, the FBI said.
After seven rescues of hikers in two days the efforts to save lives is taxing rescue crews and costing tax payers.
A construction worker fell approximately 30 feet at a construction site Monday morning in Gilbert.
Are the red states really “red” or more “brown?” The May 1999 storm cost the town of Moore $1 billion in insured losses but unfazed Oklahomans continue to build there, the town’s population grew 34 percent between 2000 and 2011 compared with a state population growth of 9 percent. The 2013 recovery effort will cost billions of dollars, and the residents will look to the federal government for disaster relief. Oklahoma’s Republicans senators Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn resolutely opposed such aid for the victims of hurricane Sandy. Coburn said he would demand that any money that flows to the tornado’s victims be offset by cutting federal spending elsewhere.
Two small planes collided and then crashed in the desert on Friday, killing all four people aboard the two aircraft, officials said.
The League of American Bicyclists has ranked Arizona 10th out of the 50 states for bike friendliness in 2013, a jump from its position of 14th in 2012.
PRESCOTT — A lot of pilots have never learned how to ditch their aircraft in water. Especially in Arizona, the "lesson" on that topic is usually a couple of paragraphs in a textbook and a checklist, and that lack of practical knowledge can be deadly.
A “safety alert” is being distributed to homes in and around the Trilogy at Power Ranch neighborhood in southeast Gilbert after a couple of people were seen possibly casing homes for burglaries, neighbors said.
An elderly woman crashed her car into a craft store in Mesa Tuesday morning, sending four people to the hospital, police said.
Four high school students were seriously injured in a Sunday morning crash in Gilbert that police say likely involved alcohol.
I have been using the Valley’s mass transit system for several years. Actually, I had to buy a car when I first moved to the Valley fourteen years ago because the mass transit at that time was close to non-existent. I moved from Denver where having a car is great, but not really necessary because the transit system is so good!
Authorities have released the identity of a man who was fatally struck by a train in Tempe.
Gilbert Fire and Rescue Department will join fire departments Valley-wide for the first coordinated fire station open house Saturday, May 18.
Firefighters say flames that rushed through a Mesa home early Wednesday were fueled by a hoarding situation.
A Tempe man has been sentenced to life in prison after causing a crash in which an 11-year-old boy died .
Some residents of a Tempe apartment complex that flooded last week after a pipe burst will soon be allowed to return.
BOISE, Idaho — The U.S. is heading into a tough wildfire season made even more challenging because budget cuts mean fewer firefighters to battle blazes, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Monday.
A lone, painted white bicycle sits at the side of Usery Park Road near Bush Highway.
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