I had to make the dreaded phone call to Department of Public Safety today.  Why is it every time you call a government agency, the person on the other end hates their life!?! You took the job to answer phones, not me. You should be happy you have a job.

Bill Richardson: DPS has characterized its failure in the Olivas case as a miscommunication. Initially, the agency blamed Chandler police for Olivas being free. Then it was the corrections department's fault for not telling DPS he was being released. When I asked if anyone at DPS would be held accountable, Warriner responded, "DPS has established criteria to determine which cases receive priority analysis verses lower-priority analysis because of budgetary and manpower constraints." There's thousands of untested DNA samples.

A Department of Public Safety officer was in critical condition late Tuesday night after a vehicle t-boned his car earlier in the day.

A Department of Public Safety officer shot and shattered a truck windshield in the parking lot of a Mesa Jack-in-the-Box restaurant Saturday night during a scuffle with the vehicle’s owner.

Arizona will send some of its Department of Public Safety officers to special training to enforce immigration laws.

Thousands of drivers endured triple-digit heat to party on the newest freeway section this weekend, but today’s highway opening isn’t a cause for celebration among those who patrol it.

Thousands of drivers endured triple-digit heat to party on the newest freeway section this weekend, but today’s highway opening isn’t a cause for celebration among those who patrol it.

Arizona Department of Public Safety officers once patrolled the Valley’s freeways based on assigned geographic beats.

Reckless and raging drivers and budget constraints are challenging Arizona Department of Public Safety officers charged with keeping Loop 101 safe through Scottsdale.

Until Monday, you could expect to see no more than two DPS patrols on Loop 101 between U.S. 60 and Tatum Boulevard.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety honored 28 of its officers who died in the line of duty during a ceremony in front of its Fallen Officer Memorial on Monday.

Q: If an organization like DPS can have their email hacked, how can us little guys ever be safe?

During October’s Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance Operation Safe Driver week, conducted by the Arizona Department of Public Safety, more than 1,790 commercial vehicle inspections were done, along with more than 2,200 passenger car traffic stops.

PARKER — Drivers in western Arizona had better watch their speed on Thursday.

Detectives from the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s vehicular crimes and reconstruction unit are seeking witnesses to a wrong way vehicle crash on the US 60 in April that resulted in the death of a Mesa man.

The Department of Public Safety raided a Glendale drop house Sunday night capturing 10 suspected smugglers.

A jury convicted a former state Department of Public Safety officer of aggravated assault Thursday in connection with a May 4, 2007, drunken driving crash that left a motorcyclist an amputee.

PHOENIX - Authorities say a medic for the Arizona Department of Public Safety has been killed in Sedona.