Cleaning your clothes, a oncedaunting task requiring a ribbed tin board and a river, now rivals yoga as one of the more relaxing moments of your day, thanks to an emerging trend of a Zen-like laundry room.

Follow these quick tips for organizing your laundry room:

In this season of spring cleaning — when neglected, dreaded household chores are finally tackled — the everyday chores suddenly seem less tedious in comparison. Enjoyable, even.

Scottsdale fire crews extinguished a blaze in a laundry room of a south Scottsdale apartment complex this morning.

A $2,900 video security surveillance video system that Adrian Notaro purchased to better monitor his south Scottsdale laundry business is paying off in helping put a stop to guys he said are “up to no good.”

It is sad when articles ("AF company strives to make carpet truly safe," AFN, Aug. 31) that are nothing more than commercials or advertisements for new companies trying to survive in the Ahwatukee Foothills, or elsewhere for that matter, gets put up on the web as expert information. Unfortunately, a lot of nonsensical information that the "chemicals" used by the average carpet cleaners are bad for you is out there, in much the same way that the term steam cleaning is used, when in fact, no one uses steam to clean carpets (true steam would melt nylon and olefin carpets). The actual industry terminology is hot water extraction, the term steam cleaning is an advertising gimmick.

It is sad when articles ("AF company strives to make carpet truly safe," AFN, Aug. 31) that are nothing more than commercials or advertisements for new companies trying to survive in the Ahwatukee Foothills, or elsewhere for that matter, gets put up on the web as expert information. Unfortunately, a lot of nonsensical information that the "chemicals" used by the average carpet cleaners are bad for you is out there, in much the same way that the term steam cleaning is used, when in fact, no one uses steam to clean carpets (true steam would melt nylon and olefin carpets). The actual industry terminology is hot water extraction, the term steam cleaning is an advertising gimmick.

The Unite Here laundry workers union plans a demonstration today at an Intel Corp. office in Chandler to protest alleged unfair labor practices of a subcontractor that handle’s the company’s specialized cleanroom garments.

Scottsdale police are searching for people who have burglarized coin-operated washers and dryers in apartment complexes in south Scottsdale and across the Valley.

Scottsdale police are searching for people who have burglarized coin-operated washers and dryers in apartment complexes in south Scottsdale and across the Valley.

Investigators are trying to determine what sparked a fire Saturday afternoon at an industrial laundromat in Tempe.

With his remarkable feature directorial debut, “Robot and Frank”, Jake Schreier joins Benh Zeitlin and Craig Zobel as one of Hollywood’s most promising directors to break out this year.

Q: It seems that the laundry room is finally attracting attention. What can I do to join the modern set?

U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl introduced federal legislation Thursday that outlines a catalog of ideas for an enforcement-first approach to immigration and border issues.