Authorities have removed a body found floating in the Tempe Canal on the Tempe-Mesa border.

Our Sonoran Desert is the most biologically diverse of North America’s deserts, and you can learn all about its flora, fauna and archaeology on Tuesday, Jan. 10 in downtown Gilbert. 

The Encore Quartet will perform a Halloween-themed concert to kick off the Sonoran Sunset Series 6 to 7 p.m. Oct. 25 at Chandler’s Veterans Oasis Park.

A former Arizona legislator was sentenced to 18 months of home confinement for his felony convictions for seeking and accepting bribes while he was a Tempe city councilman and misleading donors about a scholarship fund that benefited his relatives.

Direct Energy, one of North America’s largest energy services providers, is expanding the company’s footprint in Arizona with a comprehensive call center to be located in Tempe, the business announced Wednesday.

The Grand Canyon, copper, and Arizona's history will be celebrated Saturday as the Southeast Regional Library hosts a "living museum" event 1 to 4 p.m.

The recent 9.0-magnitude earthquake in Japan moved the island nation toward North America by approximately 13 feet and shortened the day by 1.6 microseconds, according to the Arizona Science Center. It also caused a tsunami that rippled across the Pacific Ocean to reach far-off shores.

Assistance League of East Valley collected 635 books during a Children's Book Drive in support of volunteerism on Make a Difference Day on Oct. 27. The books have been donated to Children First Academy for homeless children, Head Start programs in the Tempe Elementary District, a rural school where many children's parents are incarcerated and Adams Elementary in Mesa.

TUCSON - The Flowing Wells Invitational lost some of its bite.

SKOKIE, Ill. - As the Great Chicago Fire was ravaging the city in 1871, William Rand and Andrew McNally saved their business by burying two printing machines on the sandy Lake Michigan shore. No such clear-cut solution emerged to preserve Rand McNally & Co.’s dominance more than a century later, when the mapmaker lost its way in the age of the Internet.

PHOENIX -- Calling it an unnecessary intrusion on individual rights, the state House voted narrowly Monday to kill legislation that would have imposed Arizona's first-ever statewide ban on texting while driving.

2011-2012 Boys Soccer State Tournaments

As the state’s fastest-growing demographic group, Hispanics also are the fastest-growing market for Arizona businesses.

“Does anyone else think that ‘Non Sequitur’ is insufferably annoying?”

Williams Gateway Airport in east Mesa has failed to make the cut to become the site of a $600 million Airbus plant to produce aerial tankers for the U.S. military.

FLAGSTAFF  — Uninspired by modern art, Kurt Wenner set out to learn how European masters made architecture soar and figures float in ceiling frescoes.

WASHINGTON - The northeastern U.S. coast is likely to see the world's biggest sea level rise from man-made global warming, a new study predicts.

Monsoon weather, as dependable each Valley summer as the sweltering heat, is one of the least understood climate systems in the United States.

As we barrel down the two-lane road, historical markers tell us we are traveling along the original El Camino Real, the frontier wagon trail from Mexico City to Santa Fe. Dating to 1598, it is the oldest European-American trade route.

New computerized football schedules released by the Arizona Interscholastic Association will bring us Hamilton vs. Basha, Mountain View vs. Red Mountain, Tempe Prep vs. Seton.

New computerized football schedules released by the Arizona Interscholastic Association will bring us Hamilton vs. Basha, Mountain View vs. Red Mountain, Tempe Prep vs. Seton ... and a process which brought us a whole lot of disagreements.

The city of Mesa believes it will seal a deal to become the home of its second Cactus League team by the end of this year.

It would be easy to blame Cactus Shadows' girls soccer loss in the state championship on the airlines.