Historic preservation is often challenging, but protecting Arizona’s historic buildings and neighborhoods is critical to economic growth, strengthening home values and maintaining Arizona’s identity.

Garmin has spent more than four years as a Chandler renter. Now, the company plans to build its own home and become a permanent resident.

State lawmakers were moving toward finally adjourning their 151-day session late Thursday -- but not before setting the stage for constituents to have to start paying taxes on what they buy from catalogs and on the World Wide Web.

It used to be when you got a room full of mayors from East Valley cities together a fight might break out. It was like they were maneuvering for the same slice of pie. These days a darn love fest happens when they come together. All they need are flowers in their hair.

She started looking into her homeowner’s association because she just didn’t think what they were doing to her was fair.

She started looking into her homeowner’s association because she just didn’t think what they were doing to her was fair.

NEW YORK — Oh the pull of that elusive reservation at the hot new restaurant. And double-oh the sweet and fatty decadence of a well-made dessert. Combine the two foodie emotions and you've got the Cronut.

AMC Theatres has released plans to renovate the former 37,645 square-foot Harkins Theatres movie theater at Centerpoint on Mill Avenue in Downtown Tempe.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Myrtle Beach, this year celebrating the 75th anniversary of its incorporation, is the heart of South Carolina's $16.5 billion tourism industry. Myrtle Beach is in the center of a 60-mile (100-kilometer) reach of beaches that attracts more than 14 million visitors a year to dozens of golf courses, hundreds of restaurants and tens of thousands of hotel, motel and other rental units. There's shopping at hundreds of stores and nine live entertainment theaters with almost 12,000 seats. But there's a lot to do for free. Here are five suggestions:

Dawn Oliphant was named Queen Creek vice mayor, a one-year term, by the Queen Creek Town Council Wednesday.

NEW YORK — The nation's biggest bicycle-sharing program got rolling Monday, as thousands of New Yorkers got their first chance to ride a network billed as a new form of public transit in a city known for it.

News last month that State Farm will be the anchor tenant in a 2 million square foot multi-use development being constructed in Tempe is only part of the story, State Farm spokesman Robert Villegas said.

NEW YORK — The round, white, paper light shades sold at Ikea for $5 are a familiar item in contemporary interior design. But these inexpensive lanterns are knockoffs of light sculptures created by the renowned artist Isamu Noguchi in the early 1950s.