At first glance, the dark streets seem serene in this central Chandler neighborhood, where long-established families have raised their children in the older, modest homes.

The recent deaths of Tempe’s Butwin family, found shot to death west of Casa Grande, is a tragedy.

Bill Richardson: Next month, Gov. Jan Brewer will make her most important appointment as the state's chief executive. Brewer will select a new director for the Department of Public Safety, Arizona's statewide police force. 

November 23, 2004

Secretary of State Jan Brewer has closed the book on the record-breaking Nov. 2 general election, in which more than 2 million people cast ballots statewide for president and other issues.

The Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office drove itself into financial crisis last year with an overtime spending binge on operations to arrest illegal immigrants.

The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry is focusing its agenda for the upcoming legislative session on balancing the budget.

NEW ORLEANS - Fed up with crime and political corruption, New Orleans’ business leaders in 1952 organized to flush out the twin poisons they believed were harming economic development.

Year after year, Arizona schools chief Tom Horne withheld from the federal government and the public some of the state’s worst AIMS scores. Arizona took advantage of an off-the-books deal Horne says he struck with the U.S. Education Department in 2003 to exclude most English learners — students who are not proficient in English — from the official record of exam scores.

Year after year, Arizona schools chief Tom Horne withheld from the federal government and the public some of the state’s worst AIMS scores.

Gov. Janet Napolitano begins her second term this week, and the 2007 Legislature opens Jan. 8 to another two years of divided government between a Republican majority and a Democratic head of state.

In January, we picked 10 entities — nine companies and an Indian Community — we thought would be big newsmakers in the East Valley during the coming year.