After a prominent wedding and event venue closed its doors suddenly last month — leaving brides and grooms stranded without their deposit money and without a venue for their big days — the community has come together to begin finding alternate locations.

“I don’t know why everyone is complaining that the Gilbert school board cut salaries, eliminated the teachers’ voices from negotiations, and secured all the power of decision making for themselves. After all, this strategy has worked very successfully in Communist Russia, Nazi Germany, and... and... oh wait... maybe there IS a problem here!”

There will be 589 graduates receiving diplomas from Gilbert High School this year.

Mesquite High School will graduate 446 students this year. Students have been awarded just over $6 million in scholarships.

Gilbert's Highland High School will graduate 715 students in its Class of 2013. The students have earned $10 million in scholarships.

An estimated 320 seniors will receive diplomas from Higley High School this year. The students have been awarded $5.5 million in scholarships.

On the second floor of a back building on the campus of Chandler High School, wires, metal and ingenious student planning come together to make an inanimate object come to life.

Instead of making our kids college ready, let’s make them ready for life

Three years ago, a bunt, overthrow, or bobbled grounder led to a 1-0 win or loss.

Rick McConnell didn’t intend to spend the last 28 years coaching boys basketball at Dobson.

The Gilbert Unified School District's Volunteer Network (or Vnet) will host its third annual event Vendor Expo on April 27 at Highland High School, 4301 E. Guadalupe Road, Gilbert.

Mary Rose is raising money for bird conservation efforts, and she’s headed out on the open waters to do so. Rose will be rowing thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean next summer in the hope that she can be of help to the animal that she admires.

Jillian Leslie was none too happy, and she wasn’t alone.

Growth and expansion over the last few years has made Banner Health the leading employer in the City of Mesa.

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Nicholas Groth of the Gilbert branch was chosen as the 2013 Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley Youth of the Year this week and will go on to compete at the state level on April 3. Nick, a senior at Gilbert High School, will receive a $20,000 scholarship from the Victoria Lund Foundation, and all other candidates will receive $2,500 from the Victoria Lund Foundation.

Through struggles on the court and in the foul column, Gilbert Christian kept hoping and waiting for someone to fill Sam Jones' void.

For ten days in January, 47 Australian students were hosted by Gilbert High School students for an amazing experience. The program sponsored by Educational World Travels was coordinated by Spanish teacher, Ida Gaumitz.

Hoping to avoid another ouster of one of their own, Republican legislators on Thursday voted to change the rules for recall elections.

The East Valley housing market is starting to see a turnaround in home sale prices.

What hath the Tea Party wrought?

Thirty years ago, Valley Christian High School opened its doors to students for the first time.

Moms are always on the lookout for ways to turn downtime into fun time and SanTan Village Kids Club is just the ticket.

As a junior at Scottsdale’s Chaparral High School, Landry Low loved to sew and dreamed of working in fashion design, but wasn’t sure how she would get there. Then at a school event, this 4.6-GPA honors student happened to spot a pamphlet for the East Valley Institute of Technology in Mesa.