It’s official: Jodi Arias is guilty of 1st Degree Murder in the death of Travis Alexander.

Weather conditions, circumstances and time permitting, the Maricopa Department of Environmental Quality will conduct mosquito fogging midnight Saturday to 5 a.m. Sunday in Mesa and Chandler.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jeff Flake’s vote against expanded background checks on gun sales earlier this month caused his approval ratings to drop, making him one of the “most unpopular” U.S. senators, a new poll says.

‘Had I known about the crime problems around Arizona State University I would have never let Kyleigh move to Tempe.” Those are the words of Karen Montenegro, the mother of murdered ASU student Kyleigh Sousa.

Weather conditions, circumstances and time permitting, areas of Chandler, Gilbert and Mesa are scheduled for mosquito fogging midnight Saturday to 5 a.m. Sunday.

With rakes and shovels in hand, 40 volunteers with DMB Associates turned a once vacant lot in Mesa into a community garden last week.

About 15 years ago I had what I believed to be the solution to our incredibly poor record of electing government officials of — how do the appliance makers refer to it? — quality and reliability:

‘But your Honor, I didn’t know you actually had to show up!”

Former State Senator David Schapira has been appointed assistant superintendent at Mesa’s East Valley Institute of Technology.

Empire Southwest, LLC recently broke ground on a major new service facility on its Mesa, Arizona campus. The new building will house the Component Rebuild Center (CRC) shop and a significant portion of Empire’s product support operation. More than 50 new service and support employees will be added when the facility opens in 2014, and the company projects that up to 175 additional employees may be needed within six years.

U.S. Reps. Matt Salmon, District 5, and Kyrsten Sinema, District 9, will discuss issues facing the East Valley during a public event next month.

How are the United Nations, the Arizona legislature, and our state’s schools linked?

Growth and expansion over the last few years has made Banner Health the leading employer in the City of Mesa.

U.S. Reps. Matt Salmon, District 5, and Kyrsten Sinema, District 9, will discuss issues facing the East Valley during a public event next month.

It’s currently reminiscent of the ruins of the Colosseum in Rome. But when the Chicago Cubs’ new spring training stadium and surrounding amenities are complete, there’s little doubt it will be among Mesa’s main attractions.

Every year leading up to Easter, on a temporary, five-story, outdoor stage erected near downtown Mesa, the story of the life and mission of Jesus Christ, taken from the Bible, is portrayed in live performance, music and dance.

Now that the Chicago Cubs have secured a spring-training home in Mesa well into the future, the East Valley will soon welcome to the area the first of possibly many in a long line of Windy City favorites: Portillo’s Hot Dogs.

Mesa's Red Mountain High School Academic Decathlon team won the state competition, held Friday and Saturday at ASU West. The team garnered 48,408 points after competing in 10 events: essay, speech and interview plus seven written tests focused on mathematics, science, economics, language and literature, music, art and social science.

The official transition for the renaming of Mesa’s Eighth Street to Rio Salado Parkway began this week, when dual-named street signs were installed along the road between Country Club Drive and the Loop 101 freeway.

It’s been more than 35 years since the Oakland A’s made a change in its spring training itinerary, leaving Mesa for Scottsdale, before settling in on the Phoenix-Tempe border.

James Christensen of Gateway Bank has been named 2013 board chairman of the Mesa Chamber of Commerce.

My interface with Hollywood chiefly consists of driving each weekday underneath the Interstate 10 sign downtown saying “Los Angeles” near my exit, thinking that I should just keep going west, to take a long-delayed shot at pitching my screenplay.