Tempe is boosting security at City Hall in response to shootings at municipal buildings in other states, including the killing of five people last month in Kirkwood, Mo.

Tempe City Hall reopened Wednesday morning, a day after the building and some city phone lines were shut down.

Many artists with disabilities don’t get the chance to paint a mural on the side of a building.

If you're a Tempe taxpayer, you didn't want to read the headline from this week's Tribune: Tempe's next challenge: finding $36M to pay for lake's new dam.

Tempe City Hall is without power and phone service as of late Tuesday morning, affecting residents who want to reach the police non-emergency line and the water department.

Michael Goodwin, the architect who changed the face of downtown Tempe by designing the upside-down pyramid that is City Hall, has died. He was 72.

The FBI will not say what it is investigating at Tempe City Hall that caused agents to detain workers for a number of hours inside the building beginning Thursday morning.

Tempe’s city manager is calling it quits after a career that included running the library, giving advice about space aliens and getting yelled at over a dead golfer.

Even if you don't live in Tempe, the donnybrook to succeed Mayor Neil Giuliano will be well worth watching. So far, Councilman Dennis Cahill and former Councilman Hugh Hallman have tossed their hats in the ring.

“There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity!”

Tempe has narrowed its search for a new city manager to four candidates, including two current city employees.

Tempe’s sales tax revenue through the fiscal year’s first quarter is down 8.1 percent compared with the same period last year, according to numbers released by the city on Friday.

September 1, 2004

Tempe officials have long bemoaned the fact that, unlike most cities in the Valley, it is "landlocked," in the sense that growing the city's budget and stature by gobbling up more land on its fringes is no longer an option.

When Dennis Cahill runs through his list of accomplishments in his 12 years on the City Council, you can tell he is a brick layer with union experience:

April 25, 2005

Nearly a decade ago, when officials with Tempe Sister Cities wanted to stop paying rent for use of the Hackett House, they called then-Mayor Neil Giuliano.

The FBI is investigating Tempe, although city officials refused to say Friday what the probe is about. The investigation comes on the heels of the city’s decision to withhold information about federal housing funds that were awarded to the son of a city councilwoman. Both the refusal to release records and conflict of interest are potentially violations of federal law.

The FBI is investigating Tempe, although city officials refused to say Friday what the probe is about. The investigation comes on the heels of the city’s decision to withhold information about federal housing funds that were awarded to the son of a city councilwoman. Both the refusal to release records and conflict of interest are potentially violations of federal law.

Tempe volunteers are needed to help patrol the city’s parks by foot, in marked cars and maybe even on bicycle, boats and horseback.