After nearly two years of pandemic gloom and the sad passing of at least one longtime community tradition, Ahwatukee has something to cheer about.

Chip Mahoney, owner of Wicked Brews, Bites & Spirits in Ahwatukee, hasn’t had enough silverware since September. Normally, silverware is washed and folded into cloth napkins at the end of worker shifts but, instead, he spends his days driving to shops and supply stores hoping to find sil…

This time last year, Sharon Rockmaker’s family and friends provided plenty of encouragement during her pancreas cancer treatment.

Ahwatukee Lakes residents are closing out the year with a sight they haven’t laid eyes on in eight years – grass on half of the 18-hole golf course. 

Amid a surge in a new COVID-19 variant, Kyrene and Tempe Union school districts so far plan to take opposite approaches on mandatory masks on campuses.

Top Phoenix officials last week indefinitely suspended the implementation of an order requiring all its 14,000 city employees be vaccinated by mid-January against COVID-19 after a federal judge in Atlanta halted the Biden administration’s effort to mandate the vaccine for all federal contractors.

The Foothills Club West Association board unanimously decided last week not to appeal a Superior Court ruling that its predecessor improperly acquired the declarant rights to the golf course that could determine the embattled site’s future.