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If you live in south Scottsdale, good news just came with a hard hat and a shovel. The city broke ground on a brand-new ambulance annex next to the fire station near Miller and McDowell roads, and this one is all about getting help to you faster. The $9.5
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Neighbors Draw the Line at Kierland: No Houses on Our Golf Course If you've driven through the Kierland area lately, you've noticed the yard signs. "Don't trade green for greed" is popping up on fences, balconies, and front lawns throughout the neighborhood
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Still Think March is Mild? Think Again. Pack away those light jackets and dust off the sunscreen, Scottsdale — because what's coming next week has absolutely no business arriving in March. Meteorologists are forecasting extreme heat across The Valley as a powerful ridge of high pressure prepares to park
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Scottsdale Councilman Says No Regrets on Roundabout Reversal — Even as Costs Climb North Scottsdale drivers navigating Scottsdale Road between Jomax and Dixileta may have dodged a roundabout, but they couldn't quite dodge the bill. A report released this week confirms that Scottsdale's decision last year to
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Old Town's Parking Garage Drama: "Parkingate" Pulls Into the Final Stretch Scottsdale's planned parking garage at 1st Street and Brown Avenue in Old Town — affectionately dubbed "Parkingate" by locals — is officially rolling forward, and no mayor's objection or petition drive
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SUSD Eyeing Two to Three More School Closures If you thought closing Pima Elementary and Echo Canyon was Scottsdale Unified's endgame, think again. The district is back at the budget drawing board with a $6.5 million hole still to fill, and more school closures are now squarely
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Tempe Tavern's Last Call? State Moves to Pull the Plug The Tempe Tavern saga just got a whole lot more serious. The Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control has released a bombshell report recommending the immediate and permanent revocation of the bar's liquor license, calling
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Amazon brings autonomous vehicle testing to Phoenix Valley residents are already used to spotting Waymo's white SUVs rolling silently through intersections, and now there's a new robot in town. Amazon's autonomous vehicle unit Zoox announced Monday it is expanding robotaxi testing to Phoenix, making
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Chilean Burglar Who Torched a Tempe ATM and Walked Off With $155K Finally Caught If you ever wondered why your Wells Fargo ATM sometimes looks like it has been through a rough week, this story from Tempe might explain things. In the early morning hours of October 4, 2024, a
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Old Town Stalker Took Obsession to a Whole New Level — Armed With a Slingshot Most breakups end with awkward grocery store run-ins or a passive-aggressive playlist on Spotify. Jaime Rodriguez allegedly took the post-divorce era in a considerably more destructive direction — and Old Town Scottsdale's Envy Condos paid
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A Quiet Mesa Neighborhood, a Late-Night Walk, and Unanswered Questions The southeast Mesa subdivision near Ray and Ellsworth roads is the kind of place you picture when you think of a calm, family-friendly East Valley community — bougainvillea-lined streets, kids on bikes, neighbors walking their dogs. That image shattered in the
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There is something deeply wrong with a system in which the people who run into burning buildings are more likely to die from what they breathed inside than from the fire itself. That is the reality Scottsdale City Council decided to do something about. In a unanimous vote on February