Foreclosure activity in Maricopa County and Arizona resumed its upward climb in May, according to the latest report by RealtyTrac, an Irvine, Calif.-based foreclosure reporting service.

Editor's Note: These letters to the editor have been sorted by topic by the Tribune editorial staff in an effort to allow readers to read varied opinions on the issues, candidates, and other circumstances surrounding the 2012 general election. These submissions are the opinions of the author, not the Tribune, and have not been edited for grammar or content.

Attorneys representing a family of real-estate developers have filed suit against Maricopa County officials.

The state issued fewer ozone air pollution alerts in Maricopa County in 2009.

Visit with more than 700 of the county’s building, remodeling, landscaping and interior design experts during the Maricopa County Home and Landscape Show

A Maricopa County sheriff's detention officer who was jailed for defying a judge's order to publicly apologize to an attorney for looking at her documents will be released from custody.

The economy may be in the tank. But people continue to move into Arizona - at least parts of it - in record numbers. New figures Thursday from the U.S. Census Bureau show that Maricopa County added 89,550 people in the year ending June 30, 2008. That's a change of 2.3 percent.

The West Nile virus has hit Maricopa County, health officials announced Wednesday.

Arizona's continuing population growth coupled with massive voter registration efforts produced a record number of voters who swamped many of Maricopa County's precincts Tuesday.

The constant signs of growth in Maricopa and Pinal counties are hard to ignore. Farms have morphed into stuccoed suburbia. Condos are rising in Tempe. And despite the constant freeway construction, morning commuters still face grid-locked traffic.

November 4, 2004

November 2, 2004

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Conservative author and political novice Andrew Thomas easily whipped his Democratic opponent in the race for Maricopa County Attorney.

Reverse 911, a system that allows police and fire departments to phone homes and businesses that are at risk during an emergency, is coming to the Valley

Editor’s Note: This is the second part of the top 20 news stories for Maricopa in 2007.

An explosion of West Nile virus cases in Texas sparked a warning from the Centers for Disease Control that this year is one of the worst for the disease.

The Arizona Department of Health Services and Maricopa County Department of Public Health reported Wednesday that a health-care technician with ties to two Valley hospitals may have exposed patients to hepatitis C.

A judge refused late Thursday to stop the state from refusing to provide health care to some people below the federal poverty level.

Dave Wells: In countries like Iran we regularly see dissent brutally crushed and political enemies jailed. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas are behaving in similar fashion.

April 15, 2005

In a muddy wash directly behind Santa Rosa Elementary School in fastgrowing Maricopa, pools of brown, film-covered water appear to be boiling under the bright sun.

What Marshall Stone likes best about his new home is he can look up at night and see the stars.