Category — Phoenix, Arizona

Some question whether city can afford to use buses without charging passengers a fare.

Last week Ariz. lawmakers permanently cut funding.

A 51-year-old man was found fatally shot on the side of a road in south-central Phoenix Thursday afternoon.

Measure to help finance a new spring-training facility for the Chicago Cubs in Mesa.

Five teenagers were rescued after they became stranded in the flooded Gila River in Buckeye Thursday night.

Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick introduced a revised bill Thursday that could speed up congressional action on development of North America’s largest copper mine and bring an estimated 1,400 jobs to the Superior area.

The Arizona Legislature debated a flurry of bills Thursday, moving some forward and holding others.

As banks gambled on the risky mortgages that helped create the worst financial crisis in generations, the U.S. government handed out millions of dollars in bonuses to regulators at agencies that missed or ignored warning signs that the system was on the verge of a meltdown.

With historic health-care change in the balance, Democrats plowed fresh billions into insurance subsidies for consumers on Thursday.

Phoenix is 1 of 8 sites picked to participate in the program to provide better treatment, follow-up care.

Litchfield Park and Goodyear are negotiating a fire and emergency services agreement that if successful would give Litchfield Park something it has long coveted: becoming a member of the Valley’s automatic-aid system.

An autopsy report concluded that an Arkansas man who died after being struck with a Taser during a police traffic stop suffered a heart attack brought on by drug abuse.

Phoenix police are investigating the murder of a man shot to death Thursday in a south Phoenix neighborhood near Broadway Road and 24th Street.

Facebook and Craigslist helped return a stolen watch back to its owner and catch the thief in Surprise.

Two months following the hit-and-run death of a man that a north Phoenix neighborhood dubbed ”Mayor Bill,” Phoenix police have arrested a 67-year-old man who was identified from the start as the suspect.

Reptiles and fish at Tropical Treasures were unharmed during a fire at the Phoenix store on Thursday morning.

Police: Victim hit on no-crossing section of road.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced that his next ”crime-suppression operation” would start Thursday afternoon but offered no details about the scope or target of the sweep.

Willie D. Stevens overturned his car in a Buckeye canal last summer, killing one passenger.

A Harley Davidson motorcycle crashed and abandoned Monday in Yavapai County led authorities to solve a 3-year-old theft that happened some 100 miles away in Phoenix, authorities said.

Man hit drugstore near 83rd and Glendale avenues.

LAKE HAVASU CITY - Mohave County authorities arrested five Phoenix area female minors and a female minor from Washington State for illegally drinking alcohol at Lake Havasu Wednesday.

Pilot who crashed an experimental airplane in the Arizona desert had two previous accidents.

The U.S. Attorney announced Thursday that a Phoenix real estate agent has pleaded guilty for her role in a fraud scheme.

Two golfers alerted police after discovering the remains near the 18th tee of South Golf Course.

Toyota owner told authorities that’s what caused him to drive into a light pole, officials said.

A man who authorities say attempted to cross the Verde River to reach Verde Hot Springs on Wednesday was swept away and drowned.

Measure would allow faculty to carry a gun.

A Metro light rail train collided with a semitruck in central Phoenix early Monday, but the crash was minor and the scene was cleaned up within 30 minutes, authorities said.

LAKE HAVASU CITY - Mohave County authorities arrested five Phoenix area female minors and a female minor from Washington State for illegally drinking alcohol at Lake Havasu Wednesday.