The Arizona Corporation Commission approved a rate reduction for Southwest Gas customers to reflect the declining market price of natural gas.

Southwest Gas Corp. is seeking approval from the Arizona Corporation Commission to increase its rates by 4.9 percent.

Arizona natural gas consumers are doing such a good job of conserving energy that Southwest Gas Corp. is having to ask for a rate increase.

Southwest Gas Corp., the largest retail natural gas company in Arizona and the East Valley, has completed the acquisition of Black Mountain Gas Co., a Phoenix-based natural gas distributor with about 8,400 customers in the northeast Valley.

In an era of relentlessly rising energy costs, Southwest Gas Corp. said it has reduced rates for its 958,000 natural gas customers in Arizona.

A natural gas leak forced the evacuation of about 100 city workers and visitors from the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and the adjacent Museum of Contemporary Arts on Thursday.

A natural gas leak forced the evacuation of about 100 city workers and visitors from the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and the adjacent Museum of Contemporary Arts on Thursday.

More than 19,000 Southwest Gas customers in Phoenix will be without natural gas for several days, a spokesman said Thursday.

Temperatures are gradually dropping as winter nears — and the price of natural gas used to heat homes and businesses in the East Valley and throughout Arizona — is steadily climbing.

It looks like it will be a merry Christmas for motorists. The lower gas prices enjoyed by drivers this fall aren't likely to spike during the winter because supplies appear adequate, experts said Friday.

A Gilbert home was evacuated by authorities Tuesday afternoon after an all-terrain vehicle struck a gas meter.

A small number of people were evacuated from their homes in a Gilbert neighborhood after a construction crew severed a natural gas main on a home under construction on Saturday.

A damaged 4-inch natural gas main snarled morning rush-hour traffic, forced the evacuation of about 70 people and left dozens of businesses without gas and some with few customers at one of the busiest intersections in Scottsdale on Thursday.

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About 30 people from three businesses along Civic Center Plaza just north of Thomas Road were evacuated for about an hour on Monday and firefighters closed the street after a woman backed her vehicle into a natural gas meter.

Arizona gas prices are down from a week ago — but just barely.

El Paso Corp., Arizona’s largest natural gas supplier, has announced plans to develop an underground natural gas storage complex near Eloy to strengthen the state’s energy infrastructure.

Independent gas stations have been feeling the squeeze, more so than corporate-owned service stations and retail chains, during the ongoing gas crunch.

It looks like it will be a merry Christmas for motorists. The lower gas prices enjoyed by drivers this fall aren't likely to spike during the winter because supplies appear adequate, experts said Friday.

Southwest Gas workers are trying to close a natural gas leak that caused the evacuation of a Tempe car dealership.

A major Tempe gas line ruptured Thursday, forcing officials to close down roads already congested from stretches of construction and Arizona State University traffic.