Keira Knightley proved to be fashion royalty at the Academy Awards. She wore a wine-colored, one-shoulder gown by Vera Wang that hit the right balance between youthful funkiness and movie-star glamour. The 20-year-old wore her strawberry blond hair in a loose ponytail, and she had on a one-of-a-kind necklace with emeralds, rubies and diamonds from the 1960s she chose from the Bulgari archives.

Almost two dozen new retailers will occupy space in Gilbert’s SanTan Village, an open-air mall and lifestyle center that will be bigger than Chandler Fashion Center, officials announced Thursday.

A lot of passion and personal feeling clearly went into "Rio," the 3-D animated adventure from director Carlos Saldanha, who devised this story as a love letter to his Brazilian hometown.

Gilbert’s plan for a hip, urban, pedestrian-friendly neighborhood is beginning to take shape, but the area’s crown jewel is still years away.

Desert Mountain senior pitcher Andy Wellins threw a no-hitter against Combs to close out the Marcos/McClintock tournament on Wednesday.

A couple days after disappointment, Red Mountain's softball team got back on the wagon.

The summer she started eighth grade, Kelly McWilliams read more than 100 full-length novels. She spent the summer before ninth grade writing her own.

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With the heat building, it’s a good time to get out of the Valley for a few days of cool camping in the Flagstaff area.

Transforming the Williams Gateway area into a major employment hub for the southeast Valley could be key in turning east Mesa from a commuter’s hell into an urban paradise.

Mountain Pointe beat Downers Grove South (Illinois), 8-6, in the second round of the Horizon Tournament on Tuesday night at Mountain Pointe.

Transforming the Williams Gateway area into a major employment hub for the southeast Valley could be key in turning east Mesa from a commuter’s hell into an urban paradise.

One of Gilbert’s early attempts to transform its Loop 202 corridor into an economic engine is almost ready to take off.

The automobiles are usually the stars at the Barrett-Jackson World’s Greatest Collector Car Auction. But lately, some other stars have been shining more brightly.

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Cody Bellinger pitched a complete game, three-hitter, striking out 10 to lead Hamilton to a 3-0 shutout of Jenks (Okla.) in the National High School Invitational in North Carolina on Thursday.

Playing a role as possible spoiler, Westwood's softball team pulled it off perfectly.

Gilbert's economy and reputation received a big boost Wednesday with the news that Banner Health and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center will open a $90 million cancer hospital on the Banner Gateway Medical Center campus.

Nancy Uptain and her family are looking forward to living a normal life during the holidays following a botched robbery attempt and shootout at her brother-in-law's Chandler business Saturday.

Following a night of fast breaks, fun and franchise firsts, Phoenix Mercury coach Paul Westhead allowed himself a few moments of recognition that his team had, in fact, nearly played up to his master basketball blueprint. Nearly.

SanTan Village, a mammoth-sized mixed-use development near Williams Field Road and the Loop 202 Santan Freeway in Gilbert is five months away from opening its core shopping center component.

Phoenix-born and -raised country star Dierks Bentley already won a prestigious Horizon Award from the Country Music Association in 2005 — given to the most promising country newcomer — and if his Dodge Theatre show Thursday night is any indication, Bentley will soon win a CMA Entertainer of the Year award as well.

Kyle Pechloff had a pair of two run home runs to lead host Hamilton past city rival Chandler, 8-4, on Thursday in a Division I, Section II matchup.

Desert Vista scored two runs in the first inning and that’s all it needed as the Thunder shutout visiting Corona del Sol 2-0 in a Division I non-sectional game Tuesday.