Faced with a $6.6 billion highway funding deficit and a $1.7 billion bus and light-rail money shortfall, the Maricopa Association of Governments, the Arizona Department of Transportation and Valley Metro met Tuesday night to get the public’s feedback on proposed changes to a 20-year Maricopa County regional transportation plan to close the gap.

Scottsdale is offering the public two chances to learn and comment about proposed changes to the city’s transportation network.

Decision-makers have known for months the bad economy has gutted Proposition 400, the 20-year half-cent transportation sales tax passed by Maricopa County voters in 2004. And now the bill has come due.

TUCSON - Tucson police say they have made an arrest in connection with a deadly shooting early Sunday.

As anyone who has sat in traffic in downtown Tempe knows, the city needs more public transportation options to decrease congestion.

A public-interest law firm wants a federal judge to force lawmakers and the governor to give back the money they took from local transportation programs.

A clash over an election for the Valley’s $15.8 billion transportation plan is expected to shake out today at the Legislature, where opposing sides are likely to approve painful concessions that each had declared non-negotiable.

Arizona’s transportation planners want to hear from residents as they map out the future of getting around the state by car, bike and train in the next 20 years.

In plotting out future north-south routes between Western Pinal County and Maricopa County, planners working on the Hidden Valley Transportation Framework study are stuck between a tribe and some sheep.

As transportation officials struggle to develop the region's infrastructure in a dismal economy, civic leaders are splitting along a familiar fault line: East Valley vs. Westside.

DES MOINES, IOWA - With new ethanol and biodiesel plants going online monthly and increasing demand for the homegrown fuel additives, transportation companies are scurrying to provide the needed trains, trucks and storage tanks to keep up with the rapidly growing industry.

Police arrested a 21-year-old man Thursday afternoon suspected of gunning down a man outside a Chandler restaurant on Monday.

The House of Representatives gave overwhelming approval Monday for a November election on $15.8 billion worth of Valley transportation projects.

Jane White kicked her odd mix of addictions a few years ago, telling herself that one slip would return her to a life of smoking or political activism.

For the first time, Arizona's State Transportation Board approved a state rail plan which includes connecting the major metropolitan areas of Phoenix and Tucson by passenger rail. In a state known for its reliance on single-occupant vehicles and its lack of good public transportation, this is a crucial step forward for providing Arizonans with better transportation options.

October 7, 2004

A masked bandit brandishes two six-shooters above the words "highway robbery." Radio ads ask voters whether they should trust two millionaires with county transportation planning.

“I haven’t heard whistling in such a long time,” Teresa B. writes.

A Scottsdale entrepreneur is preparing to import 75,000 Chinese-made automobiles to the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Lawmakers made it official Tuesday: Voters will get one ballot question in November to decide the fate of a $15.7 billion transportation plan, including light rail, for the Valley.

From top to bottom, transportation officials in Arizona and across the country are eagerly and somewhat nervously looking to the federal government to drive change in the funding for transportation in the next 20 years.

Prisoners will soon be sharing the ride with Metro light rail passengers under a new transportation arrangement the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office instituted Tuesday.

East Valley travelers have new options out of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.

A Fountain Hills Middle School student has been transported to the hospital after taking an Oxycontin pill brought to school by another student.