Terry Bradburn, a 64-year-old widow, was No. 176 in line at Liberty Ministries Christian Fellowship's food pantry in Sacramento, Calif., on a recent Thursday, waiting for her allotment of salad mix, fresh pineapple, dried and canned beans, bagels and coffee cake.

Arizona is hiring three people to crack down on a particular kind of food stamp fraud.

Even in a good year, only 6 percent of eligible low-income households, or about 30,000 of the nearly 500,000 who are eligible, receive emergency energy assistance during Arizona’s excessive summer heat to help with utility bills.

A Chandler Republican lawmaker wants the debit cards now given to food stamp recipients to be bright safety orange.

As the U.S. economy emerged from a deep recession more than two years ago, Faye Taylor found herself living in Chandler without a job, riding her bike to Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank on Arizona Avenue each month to pick up two large bags of groceries.

Mesa's United Food Bank is making it easy to donate this Thanksgiving with a drive-through turkey drop.

“Interesting how the politicians can put up signs all over the valley and deface the whole valley. Why is it no one else can put up signs like that? 

Two powerful economic and demographic trends are drawing illegal immigrants over the border into the work force.

Most of us have learned as we’ve gotten older that life doesn’t always turn out the way we planned. That may be good or bad depending upon the situation, but the one positive is that most of us eventually find a way to rebound; and it never hurts to have someone in our corner to help us get back on track as we experience life’s ups and downs.

January 11, 2005

Most of us have learned as we’ve gotten older that life doesn’t always turn out the way we planned. That may be good or bad depending upon the situation, but the one positive is that most of us eventually find a way to rebound; and it never hurts to have someone in our corner to help us get back on track as we experience life’s ups and downs.

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market could soon cover the Valley by opening locations about two miles apart, providing roughly one store for every 20,000 residents, the company said Wednesday.

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New U.S. Census Bureau figures on income, poverty and the uninsured paint a bleak picture locally and nationally, portending more bad news next year and setting the stage for this fall's political campaigns.

I’m mad as hell and I can’t take it anymore! We have a president who misses nearly 60 percent of national security briefings. Iran has said it wants to wipe Israel off the map and is developing nuclear weapons. The prime minister of Israel wants to meet with the president, but Obama doesn’t have time. Yet, he can appear on Letterman and have a fundraiser with JayZ and Beyonce.

Where once there was a dairy farm, Chandler Unified School District’s newest high school will open in the fall. So now the district has to decide what to do with two houses from the previous landowners that remain on the property.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The ranks of the nation's poor have swelled to a record 46.2 million - nearly 1 in 6 Americans - as the prolonged pain of the recession leaves millions still struggling and out of work. And the number without health insurance has reached 49.9 million, the most in over two decades.

The fatal black bear attack on a Gilbert woman in Pinetop this summer is a sobering reminder that development is bringing people closer to a creature that's shy by nature but a predator at heart.

Day 3 in a 5-day special report series

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Bombs ripped through a Baghdad market and a bakery on Sunday as shoppers were stocking up on sweets and other delicacies to celebrate a major Muslim holiday, and at least five people were killed, police said.

Heavy hitters from the public and private sectors launched a fundraising campaign Friday to fight homelessness in the Valley, calling on Arizonans to contribute $1 million in 1 million seconds to the downtown Phoenix homeless campus.

LOS ANGELES - The court extended the conservatorship of Britney Spears on Thursday, and took actions intended to give her father and a lawyer access to money in the pop singer's trust to cover her needs.

WASHINGTON — The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations in the cost of living.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.