The Pinal County Board of Supervisors is seeking applicants for superintendent of public instruction following the resignation of Jack Harmon, effective at the end of June. His term was to expire at the end of 2008.

Pinal County will welcome nearly 1 million new people in the next two decades with the latest home styles, fresh desert air — and, unless things change soon, two-lane roads clogged with traffic.

March 6, 2005

A proposal for the state’s first ethanol plant is the kind of industry interest Pinal County officials hope will keep it from becoming a bedroom county for the Phoenix area.

A proposal for the state’s first ethanol plant is the kind of industry interest Pinal County officials hope will keep it from becoming a bedroom county for the Phoenix area.

A dog named Target that lived through explosions in war-torn Afghanistan couldn't survive a brief stay at an Arizona animal shelter.

Pinal County will observe National Crime Victims’ Rights Week beginning on Monday.

 Pinal County continued a trend of explosive growth into 2007, despite a housing market that has slowed across Arizona and in Pinal’s suburban neighborhoods.

Recently crowned the third-fastest-growing region in the country, Pinal County is far from king when it comes to supplying jobs for new residents.

Flooding that left some Pinal County residents without food and shelter last summer has prompted local officials to form a volunteer group to help deal with future disasters.

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.

Pinal County continued a trend of explosive growth into 2007, despite a housing market that has slowed across Arizona and in Pinal's suburban neighborhoods.

There haven't been any human cases of West Nile virus in Pinal County, and environmental health specialists are fogging for mosquitoes to try to keep it that way.

Arizona’s 1st Congressional District is undergoing a seismic political shift. The district, which spans more square miles than Illinois, previously was considered to be centered on Flagstaff, but Pinal County’s booming population is tilting the political center south.

Arizona officials have committed to more Pinal County freeways in response to critics who said the state’s transportation efforts were too little, too late.

A dramatic enrollment increase this year at Central Arizona College mirrors dramatic growth in Pinal County, college officials said.

Voters in Pinal County will decide in November if they want to raise $951 million in taxes for road projects that are supposed to ease the growing menace of congestion.

Arizona officials have committed to more Pinal County freeways in response to critics who said the state’s transportation efforts were too little, too late.

Voters in Pinal County will decide in November if they want to raise $951 million in taxes for road projects that are supposed to ease the growing menace of congestion.

A dramatic enrollment increase this year at Central Arizona College mirrors dramatic growth in Pinal County, college officials said.

More than 30 percent of the single-family housing permits issued in the Valley during the first half of 2005 were in Pinal County, indicating a major shift in Valley growth patterns, a Scottsdale economist said Friday.

June 13, 2004

Pinal County officials will face unusually steep competition in countywide elections this fall, say Republicans who are backing four new candidates for the Board of Supervisors and county assessor spots.

A Pinal County employee commission has tentatively rehired a sheriff's deputy fired in 2007 for illegally using a police database and amid allegations of domestic violence.