Queen Creek News

FOR SALE: Surplus office equipment from Queen Creek ranging from phones to computer monitors is being sold cheap as part of a year-round online auction.

Queen Creek Town Manager John Kross says impact fees help build his community. Homebuilder Warren Peterson says they stymie business in a recession.

The East Valley Tribune newspaper will stop publishing Dec. 31, the bankrupt parent company Freedom Communications reported Monday morning.

A small plane made an emergency landing near Old Price Road and Queen Creek Thursday morning.

Sell back candy, help out troops Dr. Tyler Robison and his Gilbert and Mesa orthodontic practices are giving students the opportunity to sell up to four pounds of their Halloween candy for $2 per pound, with a limit of eight pounds per family.

Residents of a near-empty development in south Gilbert are sighing relief after three developers announced plans to build homes in the subdivision.

Customers line up during the lunch hour rush at the new post office in Queen Creek.

Anchored by a growing airport and hoped-for world-class resorts, the Gateway area is expected to emerge over time as one of Arizona's premier destinations.

Leslie LeRoux stands with a small Higley display at the San Tan Historical Society in Queen Creek.

HazMat crews were called out to a Queen Creek Wal-Mart after a truck plowed into the wall of the store Friday morning.

Hazardous-materials crews responded to a San Tan Valley Walmart after a driver crashed his truck into a stack of car batteries in the store's auto-center Friday morning.

Meandering sidewalks and decorative light poles could be in Ellsworth Road's future as Queen Creek moves closer to making its Town Center area a distinctive, pedestrian-driven district.

Two proposals that would pave the way for an active adult community near Queen Creek Town Center and a mixed-use development in the northeastern part of town aren't generating much interest this time around.

PROTECT AND SERVE: Chandler firefighter Steve Jackson gets the H1N1 virus intranasal mist vaccine from Captain Donna Pierce at Chandler Fire Station 6. Chandler firefighters are among the first city employees to get the vaccine.

Meta Goforth-Zinn, left, and her partner, Stephanie Zinn, support the East Valley LGBTQS for Change efforts to add a mutual commitment registry in Mesa along with a nondiscrimination ordinance so that anyone in a long-term, committed relationship has the right to make decisions for their partner in a hospital emergency situation.

Waking up at 4:50 a.m. is usually reserved for three groups: newborn infants, local construction workers and roosters.

A new web site, QueenCreekAutoRepair.com , is under construction to become a source on auto repair in Queen Creek, Arizona.

The Coolidge Unified School District's governing board has fired a teacher amid a criminal investigation into allegations that he downloaded child pornography to his home computer.

Cancer survivors Lisa Giunta, Theresa Koontz, Angie Kimbler, and Peggy Chase join hands in unity as they cross the finish line of the 5K walk during the Susan G. Komen race for a Cure in downtown Phoenix.

Queen Creek will host a free pancake breakfast from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the town hall courtyard, 22350 S. Ellsworth Road.