Pederson Group plans a Safeway-anchored, roughly 114,000-square-foot Festival Ranch Marketplace in far-north Buckeye to serve the growing Festival Ranch community.

A Snowflake midwife and her birth center were indicted on charges including negligent homicide after prosecutors say an unborn baby died in 2025.

Cassie Johnson has been named interim general manager at WestWorld, taking charge of Scottsdale’s major event and equestrian campus. The city says she brings nearly 13 years of leadership.

A firm tied to Anthropic’s data-center plans has leased about 1.1 million square feet at Luke Field in Glendale, per filings and local reporting. The moves underscore rising AI-related industrial demand in the West Valley.

Deer Valley Unified’s enrollment has slipped to about 30,465, and the district says the phasedown of a voter override and lower student counts forced roughly $11M in cuts and dozens of staff changes.

APS preemptively cut power to about 8,000 Flagstaff-area customers as wildfire risk spiked; local markets ran on generators and cooling centers opened.

Exclusive footage shows Phoenix firefighters using training and thermal imaging to rescue five people from a Maryvale house fire; all are expected to survive.

Arizona won its sixth straight Gold Shovel Award as Amkor’s $7B Peoria campus and Axon’s Scottsdale HQ helped push the state back to the top of Area Development’s list.

Two Scottsdale brothers face felony counts after a June 24 baseball game at Salt River Fields allegedly turned into an ambush that left a man with a gunshot wound and a traumatic brain bleed.

Intel’s 2.9M‑sq‑ft Fab 52 in Chandler won Project of the Year after a 3.5‑year, crane‑heavy build and now moves into high‑volume 18A production.

Indian School Road was closed at 15th Avenue Friday as police, including SWAT, worked a large scene near an apartment building.

SRP, Northern Arizona University and Growvera have deployed 112 sensors across the Tonto National Forest to report live fuel-moisture data that could warn crews and inform grid decisions. The yearlong pilot aims to give land managers a field-level view of fire risk.

A flash flood warning covered Benson and parts of I‑10 Thursday; officials urged residents to avoid floodwaters and seek higher ground.