BOSTON - Conservative political commentator Robert Novak announced Monday he has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, less than a week after he struck a pedestrian with his Corvette and drove away.

Joseph A.J. Felcon: Tom Patterson’s Dec. 13 article, “Harding illustrated how to revive economy,” was as weak on historical accuracy as on current events.

You've heard of the Las Vegas line of odds of a certain team or athlete being victorious. Now that Thursday's Tribune candidate forums are history, here's the Scottsdale line on the mayor and City Council runoff, post-forum.

The Chinese philosopher Laotzu said a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. So, with Laotzu as my travel buddy, I embark this week on an exciting journey as the Tribune’s new retail reporter by writing this, my first Retail Corridor column.

On April 17 I wrote a letter that I need to tell you about. It is a letter I wrote to former Tribune columnist Slim Smith, telling him I would not be reinstating him at the Tribune when his prison term is up at the beginning of July.

The wife called Wednesday morning, and that's not usually a good thing because, well, I'm a husband, and you know how we are.

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s boycott of News.com appears to have ended quietly, less than three months after company executives told the technology news site that they would stop speaking with its reporters for a year.

NEW YORK - After Katie Couric was introduced on her first night as "CBS Evening News" anchor by a Walter Cronkite voiceover, she delivered a fast-moving newscast that the legendary newsman might have found unrecognizable.

Mark Scarp: Walter Cronkite’s name put Arizona State University’s journalism school on the media map. Since Cronkite became the “face” of ASU journalism in 1984, the school began a quarter-century of improvement and expansion of its curriculum, the addition of top-flight faculty and in 2008, a new six-story building in downtown Phoenix, as well as growing amounts of private philanthropic support.

I’d like to talk to you today about math and politics.

I noticed the woman sitting in the light-colored nondescript sedan across the street.

President Bush has rightly ordered his Cabinet departments to stop quietly paying opinion columnists to tout the administration's agenda.

Wondering what's different about our website? Here's a look at some new features -- and some familiar faces.

The East Valley Tribune won its fourth consecutive Arizona Newspapers Association Newspaper of the Year award Saturday evening.

NEW YORK - NBC News says it has tried to be thoroughly forthcoming about Tim Russert's role in the CIA leak case but has not told its most visible Washington correspondent to avoid discussing the ongoing political scandal.

NEW YORK - NBC News says it has tried to be thoroughly forthcoming about Tim Russert's role in the CIA leak case but has not told its most visible Washington correspondent to avoid discussing the ongoing political scandal.

Tribune page designer Julia Zolondz was named Arizona Designer of the Year at the 2006 Arizona Press Club banquet Saturday night in Phoenix.

Flip through the pages of the East Valley Tribune on Sunday and you'll see many significant changes.

That happy rainy day has arrived.

NEW YORK - David Bloom was a rising star at NBC News, a weekend anchor on "Today" who traveled from the White House to become one of the most frequently-seen TV reporters on the Iraqi desert.

Mark J. Scarp is a contributing columnist for the Tribune.

We have expressed discomfort with a reporter having the absolute right to grant a source confidentiality. We do believe, however, that such confidentiality should only be abrogated in the narrowest, most carefully designed and monitored circumstances, in certain matters directly related to national security.

Anonymous political speech through the written word has a rich history dating back to The Federalist papers of the American Revolution.

Every several months, Arizona executes a murderer. Even so, it’s news; it gets reported in the newspapers, radio and television.