The Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence stands just a mile away from Pinal County headquarters where Prisoner No. 217505 once occupied the seat of power.

Grand plans for a 22-acre sports entertainment district at Tumbleweed Park, involving a partnership between Chandler and private developers, are being shelved until the economy sees sunnier days.

Will the need for more freeways finally take its toll on Arizona motorists? Two Senate bills submitted this week would legalize the construction of toll roads or pay-as-you-go freeway lanes.

National publications and news stories may be declaring the recession at an end, but Arizona economists say it is too early to pop the champagne corks here.

In his 1989 book, “Arizona: A Cavalcade of History,” historian Marshall Trimble of Scottsdale quoted the late former U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., about the importance of water in the West.

Ex-Pinal County Manager Stanley Griffis had himself one heck of a good time on the county taxpayer’s dime, according to an auditor’s report released by investigators this week.

The growth in wagering at Arizona reservation casinos appears to be slowing.

Poorly thought-out budget priorities will leave Arizona communities vulnerable to catastrophic wildfires unless Congress restores money to thin overgrown woods outside of federal forest boundaries, state and federal officials say.

April 18, 2005

The recent sight of road graders clearing old-growth Mojave Desert shrubs for the nation's first large-scale solar energy project on public land pained Phil Smith.

Even in a slow economy a few large East Valley construction projects continue to rise.

More than two dozen Tribune journalists were honored for their work by the Arizona Press Club at the group’s annual banquet Saturday night.

The vote to increase Arizona’s sales tax (Prop. 100) ironically comes at a watershed point in the history of Western democracies.

The vote to increase Arizona’s sales tax (Prop. 100) ironically comes at a watershed point in the history of Western democracies.

WASHINGTON — Arizona earned a D in a national report Wednesday that graded states on their families’ financial security in five broad categories.

As a parent knee-deep in division, the fundamentals of reading and — for my toddler — the recognition of A, B and C, college seems a long way from now.

PHOENIX - Arizona residents have a new online site that will connect them to social services and provide an information network to deal with raging wildland fires and other disasters.

A developer has unveiled plans for the largest project yet in downtown Tempe along Town Lake.

WILLIAMS – On this breezy spring day, Melvin Berry, a Williams resident for the past 27 years, casts his fishing line into Santa Fe Reservoir. Berry said this spot, directly behind a 42-feet-high masonry dam, is one of his favorite places to fish.

Two new pedestrian signals along Chandler's recently-completed Western Canal multi-use path will be turned on for the first time Wednesday. The crossings are located on Dobson Road and on Alma School Road and will serve pedestrians and cyclists.

It seems every few weeks, there is a news report that suggests that global warming will result in drying up the Colorado River and the Salt River and that the Valley of the Sun’s entire water supply will disappear. Such alarmist news might make you want to sell the house, grab the kids, and move to the Pacific Northwest.

Chandler officials are in talks with a New York-based developer to build a mixed commercial/residential project several stories tall on a high-profile corner viewed as a future northern "gateway" into downtown.

Held back by lofty energy prices and rising interest rates, Arizona’s economic expansion is likely to slow down slightly in 2006, according to economists who spoke Wednesday at the 42nd Arizona State University/Bank One Economic Forecast Luncheon at the Phoenix Civic Plaza.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Spurred by tax incentives and a belief computer chip demand will continue to grow, Intel Corp. said Monday it will spend $3 billion to build a factory in Chandler and another $105 million to convert an inactive New Mexico plant into a temporary test facility.