If it’s time to make a statement concerning a state title, the Mesa Mountain View girls basketball team may have picked the right moment Friday night.

Many believe Corona del Sol and Pinnacle, the top two seeds in the Division I boys basketball tournament, are on a crash course to face off in the state championship.

The same weather pattern to blame for spreading wildfires throughout southern California is kicking up dust in the south East Valley today.

The Mountain View High School band's marching story about dancing Greek statues at night earned the students third place Friday night in the Fiesta Bowl National Band Championship.

Three-time 5A boys basketball champion Mesa Mountain View opened its season Monday night with a substantially different cast but similar results to its recent run of titles.

The lower-seeded Glendale Mountain Ridge boys basketball team walked in to Mountain View poised and ready.

Mesa’s Mountain View High School finished second Friday at the annual Fiesta Bowl band championship competition – bested only by Southern California’s Chino High School, now a three-time winner of the event event’s Grand Master’s trophy.

Mesa’s Mountain View High School won second place Saturday in the national Academic Decathlon. The team represented Arizona at the competition in Omaha, Neb.

Right about the time everyone is down in the dumps about what high school sports has become — most recently and prominently with what’s happened at Gilbert in the past week — sportsmanship saves a day.

Sixty-two thousand screaming fans on a warm summer night in Provo, Utah.

No. 21 Arizona State will host California on Saturday to wrap up the regular season slate of games.

CORRALITOS, Calif. - Hundreds of people evacuated from their homes are anxiously waiting to be let back into their neighborhoods while frustrated firefighters battle a fast-moving wildfire burning in a central California mountain range.

Driven by a desire to leave behind an unstable family life and be independent, Sabrina Canela decided early on that education would lead her to her goals.

PRESCOTT VALLEY – It was hard to take it all in at times.

LOS ANGELES - Still more rain soaked Southern California on Wednesday, giving Los Angeles its wettest year in more than a century, after collapsing hillsides crushed homes, oozing mud blocked highways and a surging river carried away part of an airport.

LA CONCHITA, Calif. - Rescuers with listening devices sensitive enough to pick up a whimper or faint tapping searched Tuesday for victims feared buried in a mudslide that sent trees and dirt thundering onto this seaside hamlet, killing at least six people.

In Chris Stratton’s house you’ll find a 4,000-bottle wine cellar, a computer system running more than nine miles of cable and a children’s play room accessible by a hidden passageway in a trophy case. It’s just one of five luxurious homes at Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club open to the public next weekend as part of the Home Tour at Superstition Mountain, the 890-acre development in Apache Junction that’s home to some of the East Valley’s more expensive and elegant homes.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Social worker Luisa Chavarin thought she had left unemployment and crime behind when she emigrated from Guadalajara, Mexico, to Silicon Valley, the epicenter of the global technology industry.

Mesa Mountain View’s Kendall Wallace scored 27 points, including hitting 16-of-17 free throws, en route to a 76-55 home basketball rout of Phoenix St. Mary’s Thursday.

A fundamental flaw in thinking underlies the conclusions of a new major study that looks at the future of the Valley and four other fast-growing metropolitan areas of the Mountain West - the federal government needs to step in to save us from our own successes.

It’s about that time of the year when some Valley football programs get out of the area for a spell before it starts to get real serious.

The lasting image of the 2012 baseball season was Dylan Cozens blasting a walk-off, opposite-field homer to lift Chaparral to the Division I championship over Brophy.

Deonte Roberts’ game of choice has always been basketball. Growing up in south-central Los Angeles through age 14 reduced him to playing a game he didn’t enjoy — keep away.

Corona del Sol beat No. 18 Mountain View 25-21, 25-20, 25-22 on the first day of the Division I boys volleyball state tournament on Saturday.