Peering through a police cruiser’s windshield, Mesa officer Ryan Douglass eyed the heavy flow of rush-hour traffic buzzing along a sea of black asphalt at Broadway Road and Mesa Drive.

May 10, 2004

With hundreds of thousands of Arizona motorists heading to grandma's house next week, it's important to keep in mind a few tips to ensure a safe, stress-free trip:

With hundreds of thousands of Arizona motorists heading to grandma's house next week, it's important to keep in mind a few tips to ensure a safe, stress-free trip:

With hundreds of thousands of Arizona motorists heading to grandma's house next week, it's important to keep in mind a few tips to ensure a safe, stress-free trip:

Only a handful of people spoke at a public hearing Monday about Mesa’s plan to spend more than $400 million in the next few years. The city is planning to present two bond proposals on the Nov. 4 ballot.

Andrea Fulton lives across the street from Gilbert Elementary School. But she wouldn’t dream of letting her 6-year-old son walk to kindergarten there.

The research is overwhelming, the statistics are indisputable and the human cost is devastating.

Mesa will be asking for a property tax increase Nov. 4, two years after voters spurned one. The difference is the proposed 2006 tax increase would have been permanent and would have been used to fund the daily maintenance and operation of the city, while the property tax on the current ballot would pay for construction projects and would end eventually.

Sixteen teens in the United States die each day in car crashes. And after participating in a safe-driving summit on Monday, a group of Scottsdale students will try to share that information with their friends to avoid becoming statistics.

Two Tempe men are back at their jobs at Chandler Regional Hospital after accomplishing one of the defining goals of an able-bodied Muslim’s life — a pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest shrines in Mecca and Medina in west-central Saudi Arabia.

Get the kids ready for summer with a free afternoon of swim lessons and warm weather fun at SWIMkids USA, where they’ll enjoy playing on water slides, eating hot dogs, and noshing on cotton candy and snow cones.

 T-Mobile Limited stores in Chandler and Mesa are partnering with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office to help parents record vital information about their children to help locate them in the event they become lost or missing.

The Gilbert Police Department, in partnership with Shred It, will offer a crime prevention event 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Super Target Store parking lot, 3931 S. Gilbert Road. This event will offer residents secure document shredding, drug disposal and vehicle VIN etching. 

The Queen Creek Fire Department, in conjunction with the National Weather Service, is offering residents of all ages the opportunity to learn how to identify and report severe weather.

Temperatures are climbing — and the voices of the East Valley’s annual drowning prevention campaign are growing louder. It happens every year about this time.

September 24, 2004