Salt River Project will increase electric rates for its residential customers by 6 percent beginning Nov. 1. But the impact will be masked by the fact that seasonal winter rates will go into effect at the same time.

Mesa is preparing to move ahead with its role to restore a swath of the dry, scarred Salt River bed to its former beauty, which once included a year-round water flow, marsh plants, trees, grasses, shrubs and wildlife.

A vote by members of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community to allow the serving of alcohol at restaurants along the Loop 101 corridor is a "huge plus" for the redevelopment of the Scottsdale Pavilions shopping center, according to Marty De Rito, developer of the project.

An integrated health management provider with numerous Fortune 500 clients plans to relocate and expand its East Valley operation from Scottsdale Airpark to an emerging business park in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.

Queen Creek is looking for residents to participate in the Salt River Project Task Force.

Motorists driving along Loop 101 in the Scottsdale area will see the emergence next year of a small city with more than a half-million square feet of office buildings off the Via de Ventura exit.

Plans to spruce up 14 miles of the barren Salt River bed cutting between Mesa and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community are moving forward after a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee approved $800,000 in federal money for the project.

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community is by no means unified when it comes to major commercial construction along the tribe’s western border with Scottsdale.

Salt River Project canals south of the Salt River will empty starting Friday.

The Gilbert Road crossing at the Salt River opens to traffic Monday as workers complete the final steps to eliminate a bottleneck that's slowed traffic since 2007.

Work resumed Monday to replace the Gilbert Road crossing on the Salt River, which washed away during heavy river flows in December 2007. The Maricopa County Department of Transportation has already started rebuilding the low-flow roadway that carries northbound traffic, but work halted in February 2010 after a wet winter forced Salt River Project to release water into the normally dry Salt River. Ever since the washout, the four-lane road has been narrowed to two lanes at an existing bridge. The county now anticipates reopening the crossing and restoring normal traffic flow in July.

The Salt and Verde rivers' watersheds experienced feast-or-famine precipitation from late autumn into the spring, but this so-called runoff season was one of the most productive in years.

Mesa officials are receptive to the construction of a bridge over the Salt River that would shorten the drive between the far East Valley and the Beeline Highway.

A steady downpour Monday, more rain forecast today and another Pacific storm system due late this week will prompt Salt River Project to double the flow of water at the Granite Reef Dam east of Mesa today and keep it there for a day or two.

January 4, 2005

It's not often the someone can make a ruling whose impact is still felt 100 years later. But a now-obscure territorial judge in Arizona accomplished just that. Monday is the 100th anniversary of the Kent Decree, a legal decision that still affects water law and development in the Salt River Valley.

Members of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community will vote Tuesday whether to allow the sale of alcohol by the glass at restaurants along the Pima Freeway corridor.

It’s still relatively quiet along the lower Salt River. An occasional trout or bass stirs up soft ripples on the water’s surface, and a stilt-legged bird steps gingerly in and out of tall grass growing at the river’s edge.

The latest phase of an expanding office complex owned by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community will be the first private "green" building in the Valley.

The Salt River Project plans to built three new natural-gas power plants in northern Pinal County to meet growing peak summer electricity demand.

Without water, a human dies in five hours or less in the Sonoran Desert summer.

Just below a bridge in north Tempe, black-crowned night herons wade through fluffy clouds of bright green algae clinging to the Salt River’s muddy bottom.

Just below a bridge in north Tempe, black-crowned night herons wade through fluffy clouds of bright green algae clinging to the Salt River’s muddy bottom.