Chandler Christian Community Center will host a family day of play in the snow Jan. 26.

Are you proud to live in Arizona? Well if you ask me, then yes. Because of the beautiful sights like the Grand Canyon. I went to the Grand Canyon when I was little. But when I got there the weather was crazy. The wind was hard. It blew me away! Then it finally ended so we went back the next day. The weather was perfect.

While local residents can visit area homes to see who has the best holiday decorations in town, the biggest party in Maricopa is planned for this Saturday, Dec. 8, at Pacana Park.

NEW ORLEANS - At the front of the line, the weary refugees waded through ankle-deep water, grabbed a bottle of water from state troopers and happily hopped on buses that would deliver them from the horrendous conditions of the Superdome.

The 5A Division I state semifinal between Desert Vista and Desert Ridge could be decided by whichever team has the better running game.

About 9 a.m. Friday, with the Suns’ charter plane still sitting in Sacramento and Denver International Airport closed to inbound traffic until at least 4 p.m. it appeared the Suns would have to postpone a basketball game for the second time in three days.

Royce Clayton was brought in for his glove, the latest example being his hit-saving (and possibly game-saving) stop in the hole in the top of the 11th inning Monday, helping preserve a tie before the D-Backs won it in their 11th.

Eleanor Maloney doesn’t want soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan to feel like they don’t have enough support at home. So each week, the 49-year-old Mesa homemaker sends a letter to two soldiers fighting in Iraq.

The prism of experience goes both ways.

The forecast for Friday’s Merry Main Street calls for some 40,000 people strolling up and down a stretch of Mesa’s Main Street, visiting vendors, hearing music and admiring the last-minute revival of the downtown light display.

The season could have easily gone another way.

WASHINGTON - A minority president no more, President Bush sketched a second-term agenda Thursday that includes fighting the worldwide war on terror while seeking tax and Social Security reform.

“Astro Boy”

A guide to movies from a family perspective:

Umbrellas dotted with signatures from the likes of Hugh Jackman, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon lined the lobby of Mesa's Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre this week.

Kids rode sleds and built snowmen in east Mesa on Sunday after rain, snow and sleet drenched the East Valley and capped nearby mountains with white.

Higley wrestling coach Darren Johnson knew what awaited his team last year when the Knights traveled to Minnesota for a tournament. The bitter cold of a Minnesota winter is something that must be experienced to be believed and the Knights got a good taste of it.

Four massive wildfires, nearly 1 million acres and more than 800 homes. And all in three years. Much as a snowball increases in speed and size as it rolls down a mountain, Arizona wildfires are growing larger and more destructive over time.

Four massive wildfires, nearly 1 million acres and more than 800 homes. And all in three years. Much as a snowball increases in speed and size as it rolls down a mountain, Arizona wildfires are growing larger and more destructive over time.

TOKYO - Yuki Saito should have known something was wrong when his dad quietly walked into their steaming home tub that night — they hadn’t taken a bath together in years, although it is the Japanese custom to do so.

Cystic fibrosis destroyed Tiffany Tate’s dream of playing collegiate basketball.

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 “So Fred Phillis and his personal vendetta against (Gilbert Mayor Steve) Berman just happened to have only 10 signs made under the limit (Tribune, March 21). No conspiracy, nothing planned. Boy, he ought to be a stand-up comic at the Improv.”