The last man in a group of schemers who defrauded about 100 investors across the United States out of more than $10 million and have yet to pay most of it back will join his accomplices in prison.

A gun in an 8-year-old boy's backpack fired into the seat of a Mesa school bus Friday afternoon, school district officials said.

Baggy pants. Spaghetti strap tops. Hip hugger jeans. Governing board members in the Gilbert Unified School District are fed up with dress-code violations in Gilbert schools.

A Mesa second-grader who fired a .22 caliber semi-automatic pistol on a school bus full of about 50 children will not face any charges. Neither will his parents, who had kept the gun in a case with an inoperable lock.

The Gilbert Unified School District governing board approved a salary schedule for teachers last week that maintains their current pay.

GPS Traditional Academy - Neely Campus will now officially be called Neely Traditional Academy.

A Gilbert governing board member may become the new director of marketing and communications for the Mesa Unified School District.

Four women are running for three open governing board seats in the Gilbert Unified School District, including two incumbents, a former education reporter and a business owner.

A report compiled by the Mesa Police Department shows officers made nearly 1,600 arrests in the past few years at junior and high schools in the Mesa School District.

The driver of a Mesa school bus that struck a Skyline High School student Wednesday morning has been put on leave.

Next year's Gilbert freshmen will only need 22 credits to graduate after the school board officially approved the new policy Tuesday.

The Gilbert Unified School District’s governing board has approved increasing the number of math and science credits needed for next year’s high school freshmen to graduate.

Gilbert’s fifth high school could come with synthetic grass on the football field, solar panels that operate ceiling fans in the dining pavilion and remote panels that show current energy usage.

Parents, students, district staff and the community are invited to take an anonymous online survey to rank attributes they feel are the most important in a new superintendent for the Gilbert Unified School District.

Mesa police and school officials are investigating a number of recent break-ins at two junior high cafeterias and a high school library that resulted in more than $2,000 in damage and stolen food items.

A Skyline High School student was struck by a Mesa school bus about 7 a.m. Wednesday morning as she walked to school.

The Gilbert Unified School District has a new employee — the executive director of the Gilbert Historical Museum — but the historical society is funding her salary.

The Gilbert Unified School District is moving forward with filling a governing board position after member Shane Stapley stepped down last week because he is moving out of the school district.