General Electric pays no tax on over $6 billion in earnings for 2010. Don't be surprised, it's been that way for a long, long time. So, who pays most the taxes to support our government functions?

One year ago, the San Jose Sharks were playing out a miserable season, mired in 14th place in the Western Conference. They sold off high-priced veterans to the highest bidder, let their young kids learn painfully on the job and kept their fingers crossed for better days — which came faster than anyone could have imagined.

It seemed like a long way to fall for Robert Garrigus, all the way from the PGA Tour to the Scottsdale-based Grey Goose Gateway Tour.

The Grey Goose Gateway Tour’s Desert Summer Series concluded last week with Brian Kontak again on top of the money heap with $81,846.

After spending months pouring over mind-numbing municipal budget data, the Mesa 2025: Financing the Future committee did the inevitable. It recommended increasing taxes.

In his wildest dreams, Chris Stutts never envisioned this: Three years into his Grey Goose Gateway Tour, and the Scottsdale-based minitour has become the most successful model of its kind in the country. Ever.

This is the Season from Hell. No, on second thought, actually it's worse than that.

With the magical Gilbert run to the state championship now a memory, the 2012 season is already shaping up to be a wide-open affair in the final month of the regular season before the state tournaments begin Oct. 30 (Division I and II), Nov. 1 (Division IV) and Nov. 2 (Division III and V).

Creative Stages Youth Theatre will produce two different Brothers Grimm plays.  “After the success of the ‘World of the Brothers Grimm’ play last year, we wanted to expand on the fun,” said director and writer Jim Gradillas.

Alice Sliger spent most of her 103 years amassing a priceless collection of Western art and iconic baseball memorabilia from players who wintered in her Buckhorn Baths resort in Mesa.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Bring up the name of a major-league player from Rich "Goose" Gossage's era, and he'll probably have a story about him. What about former Milwaukee Brewer Robin Yount, who Gossage will join in Baseball's Hall of Fame on July 27?

Phoenix’s Brian Kontak shot a 6-under 66 Thursday and finished at 14-under 202 to win a Grey Goose Gateway Tour Desert Spring Series tournament at Anthem Golf and Country Club in Anthem.

The Grey Goose Gateway Tour grew significantly when the Scottsdale-based developmental golf circuit gobbled up the Floridabased Golden Bear Tour in a merger that was completed late last week.

Four players on their way to the PGA Tour will be among 86 players taking part this week in the $500,000 Grey Goose Gateway Tour Championship being held at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale.

Aaron Watkins isn’t all that worried about his money position going into this week’s $300,000 Sidney Frank Memorial Tour Championship on the Grey Goose Gateway Tour.

Consider Natalie Merchant’s latest album, “Leave Your Sleep,” released earlier this year, a literary tour of a something you may not have visited since high school: poetry.

One of four teenagers arrested on suspicion of mowing down a flock of ducks and geese in Ahwatukee Foothills pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of animal cruelty in Maricopa County Juvenile Court in Mesa.

Coulrophobia. Heliophobia. Trypanophobia.

Tammy Vrettos calls it a “vicious cycle.” Every year, domestic ducklings bought as cute Easter gifts are discarded at parks and on the side of the road after the novelty wears off.