Mesa Baseline Rotary is doing something about childhood hunger in Arizona - and so can you - with a Hike for Hunger, benefiting United Food Bank.

Desert Rivers Audubon, which hosts monthly nature programs for families in Gilbert and Chandler, will give outdoors enthusiasts a primer on using smart phones to connect with nature.

The city of Phoenix is working to improve parking around the trail heads for the Pyramid Trail in Ahwatukee Foothills’ Club West at the end of Chandler Boulevard, but the long-term solution may not happen until the city can identify the proper amount of funding.

For Kachina, of all the streets in Ahwatukee, to have fast and reckless driving is just sad. I should add littering, for at the southern end of Kachina Drive one can often see cans and bottles as well as fast-food packaging tossed out to the side of the road.

A man was found dead on the Pima Canyon Trail of South Mountain near Ahwatukee Foothills early Sunday morning, Phoenix Fire Department officials said.

A new partnership between Phoenix Parks and Recreation, Arizona Game and Fish, Liberty Wildlife and REI is offering residents and visitors to South Mountain a deeper look at what makes South Mountain Preserve special.

Sometimes mixing sun and fun isn’t a good idea.

How they managed to live out here, I’ll never grasp, I think, resting in a spot of shade against a boulder in the Superstition Mountains east of the Valley.

How they managed to live out here, I’ll never grasp, I think, resting in a spot of shade against a boulder in the Superstition Mountains east of the Valley.

A new regional trail rating system could make Phoenix trails safer by matching hikers with the correct trails.

On the latest “DiverseCity,” PHX11 staff set out to discover for themselves why National Geographic selected Phoenix as one of the country’s top cities for hiking.

When Bassel Osmani was an engineer student at Arizona State University he never imagined himself owning a nationwide chain of super healthy, fresh restaurants.

When Bassel Osmani was an engineer student at Arizona State University he never imagined himself owning a nationwide chain of super healthy, fresh restaurants.

Sometimes “Get(ting) Out” means finding scenic solace from hectic workdays and harried schedules.

It must stink to be a vampire or werewolf this Halloween. Most of the new and classic creeps haunting most cable channels on Monday will feature nary a vampire or werewolf. Making way on most schedules are serial killers, zombies and maybe even a real ghost or two.

Nick Marek and Lorrie Scherrer were not setting out on a night hike on Aug. 27 with any intention of assisting in a mountain rescue, but somehow that's exactly what happened.

Nick Marek and Lorrie Scherrer were not setting out on a night hike on Aug. 27 with any intention of assisting in a mountain rescue, but somehow that's exactly what happened.

Trails on South Mountain are a vital part of what makes living in Ahwatukee Foothills great. But one homeowners association is doing all it can to encourage its residents to use only city trails, even if it means blocking paths that have been around for years.