Buckeye News

The Arizona State Prison Complex-Lewis in Buckeye, Ariz. is shown in a Jan. 20, 2004 file photo.

Buckeye shut down a fire station on Monday because it couldn't afford to pay overtime.

Bond was set for the parents charged with seven counts each of felony child abuse of an 8-year-old Liberian girl who investigators said was also brutally gang raped in West Phoenix.

Police from Surprise and seven other agencies stopped 101 drivers during a West Valley DUI crackdown last Saturday.

BUCKEYE, AZ a ' Police have located the parents of a young boy who was found on a sidewalk in Buckeye Thursday morning.

A jury has found a Buckeye teen guilty in the carjacking-murder of a 28-year-old Arizona corrections officer.

Southern Avondale will get some much-needed storm-water runoff relief, but it will require crews to close a road for a week.

Cpl. Nicholas Artega stood at attention with two Marines to salute one of the many color guards at Phoenix's Veterans Day celebration Wednesday.

Police will be on the lookout for drunken drivers in Surprise on Saturday night.

The Fall Demolition Derby is Nov. 21 at the Helzapoppin' Rodeo Arena, 601 N. Fourth St.

A young father stopped to help a young man lying in the road late at night in Buckeye a year ago, only to get shot to death.

While auto-theft numbers are down statewide, Southwest Valley police agencies are dealing with a recent spike in pickup-truck thefts.

Beginning Nov. 17, there will be no access to Lower Buckeye Road from Central Avenue in Avondale.

I got into a debate with my Pops yesterday about Gladwell's piece and whether his argument that football and dog-fighting are of the same piece, was valid.

Billions of dollars in voter-approved Valley freeway-expansion work will be postponed and scaled back after plummeting tax revenue forced a regional transportation panel to slash spending Wednesday night.

Avondale will host another "City Hall Comes to You" on Thursday. The premise behind the monthly "City Hall Comes to You" program is to make elected officials and city staff more accessible to residents and to promote one-on-one dialogue.

The town voted Tuesday to run its local elections through the mail. Residents still have the option of voting in person at Town Hall, 530 E. Monroe Ave.

A group of Tempe women has been helping some state prison inmates to develop a creative pursuit.

Sales-tax collections are behind projections in Southwest Valley cities, only two months into the new fiscal year.

Buckeye Elementary School seventh-graders got a kick of reality about tobacco - the tar jar.