The Phoenix metro area is seeing an epidemic of Valley Fever after last summer’s massive dust storm and this year could lead to a high number of cases, too.

An elderly East Valley man died this month after contracting West Nile Virus, becoming the first human fatality of the year from this disease.

A nationwide survey of electric customers has found that Salt River Project’s service was the top-rated among large power companies in the West.

The selection of a jersey number can come from a variety of avenues such as simply being assigned to the athlete or choosing the same numeral as their favorite player.

It took a threatened move to Florida, an election and the closing of a golf course, but three years of effort will culminate Wednesday with the Chicago Cubs breaking ground on a new spring training complex in Mesa.

Each year as the monsoon season descends upon us, we see too many trees uprooted and ruined by poor preparation. With the proper planning and practices, this can all be avoided. Take time to inspect and make certain of the following preventive measures.

Each year as the monsoon season descends upon us, we see too many trees uprooted and ruined by poor preparation. With the proper planning and practices, this can all be avoided. Take time to inspect and make certain of the following preventive measures.

The part of Arizona where most of the Valley’s water comes from recorded one of the driest winters on record, making it the second parched winter in a row.

You can’t really blame local TV weather forecasters for playing up the Arizona monsoon.

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It’s a win-win partnership for students at both Desert Garden Montessori and graduate students at Arizona State University.

Stay up all night, haven’t done that in a long time. But I pretty much did on Saturday night. It all started last week when my Mountain Pointe High School junior said, “Mom, we need one more chaperone or we can’t stay all night at the Relay for Life.” Exactly how am I supposed to say no to that? My husband was already an over-night chaperone, so I joined the fun. “What do I have to do?” I asked. “Just come and sleep in the tent and be there by 10 p.m. on Saturday night.”

As it is a leap year, 2012 has an extra day today, Feb. 29, which doesn’t mean that your life got a day longer (sorry) but your year and your month definitely did. So, what are you going to do with an entire 24 hours you don’t get three-fourths of the time? From Leap Year headquarters in Twentynine Palms, Calif. (I just made that up, the headquarters, that is, not the town, which is real), here’s a list of possibilities:

As it is a leap year, 2012 has an extra day that occurs this week, Feb. 29, which doesn’t mean that your life got a day longer (sorry) but your year and your month definitely did.

The Desert Vista girls basketball team wants a shot at an upset so the Thunder made it clear early Friday night they weren't going to let that opportunity slip by.

While it is easy to look at the long Christmas break from school as an opportunity to recharge and prepare for the new year, many of the area sports programs have taken a different approach.

While it is easy to look at the long Christmas break from school as an opportunity to recharge and prepare for the new year, many of the area sports programs have taken a different approach.

Maybe it's the holiday season. Maybe it's the cooler weather. Maybe it's the sudden jolt of reality that hits when you wake up the day after football championships were crowned and there's abruptly nothing left.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said, "I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air." Autumn is a time to reflect on how well we managed to get through another hot summer and the annual arrival and departure of the monsoons. This year seemed fairly tame in comparison to recent years, but it did leave some work for every computer owner.

It might be time to break out jackets as Valley residents now can say goodbye to months of hot weather and hello to fall.