Surprise News

More than 400 people crowded into the Willow Canyon High School auditorium Wednesday to see what kind of entertainment the 50-and-over crowd could deliver.

A potential general-obligation bond election will be discussed at a special City Council meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday at the new Surprise City Hall, 16000 N. Civic Center Plaza.

Justin Derrick Draper, 21, has been arrested and charged with manslaughter following a 2006 collision that killed three teenagers.

After five intense months of public debate, the Surprise City Council tonight will decide if a $185 million bond package will be put before voters this fall.

A woman who stepped on her car's accelerator instead of the brake ended up knocking power out to her Surprise neighborhood.

Efforts to enact a new state budget just a day before the deadline stalled at least temporarily Monday as some Republican lawmakers pushed to send Gov.

City officials set a $5,000 budget for Summit at Surprise, the city's attempt to gather the state's governor, mayors, state and federal lawmakers, and tribal leaders to discuss shared political issues.

The Surprise Fire Department conducted a multi-agency wildland fire training exercise Wednesday morning in the area of 163rd Avenue and Jomax Road.

After some slight wrangling at a recent city council meeting, council members voted to write off utility debts older than 12 months and set up payment plans for the past 12 months for delinquent Surprise residents. While some had not paid in many years, it was determined that not collecting on these had created an air of expectation of services despite non-payment and in this economy it just wasn't right to demand payment in full. Several council members acknowledged that the city was partly at fault for not collecting aggressively when they should have.

Just because an elderly woman is sick in bed, it doesn't mean she can't get a fresh coat of polish on her nails or a new hairdo, says Surprise resident Ann Byrne.

SURPRISE, AZ a ' A Surprise man was airlifted to a Valley hospital after he was attacked with a baseball bat Wednesday night, according to Sgt.

Celebrate the Fourth of July with Surprise Community and Recreation Services Department from 5 to 8:30 p.m. July 4 at the Surprise Recreation Campus.

Surprise police were called about the same neighborhood three times over the weekend, officials said.

Sharon Hill, 3.5 year resident of Surprise and long-time media executive, consultant, and author, is launching Yore Town approximately October 1. This social network will be focused on local history, and will have plenty of features for community members to talk about their own personal stories and to learn about and discuss the history of their local community. The link above will take you to the User Features page of the Yore Town blog. If anyone is interested in telling their story to a Yore Town videographer for publication on Yore Town email them at yoretown@gmail.com

Surprise has received seven proposals in a bridge project that would connect Bicentennial Park to Rio Salado College's Interfaith Community Care, 16752 N. Greasewood St., an intergenerational facility that opened in April.

Surprise police and the public may never know what motivated someone to leave two messages on the voicemail of an internal-affairs investigator.

A Surprise police lieutenant, an assistant chief and a departmental review panel recommended an officer be fired for his misuse of an informant, but Police Chief Dan Hughes gave Officer Jeremy Atwell a second chance.

A Surprise teen called police Friday to report that a 19-year-old visitor stole her Nintendo Wii after the two allegedly had sexual contact, police said.

A former Phoenix homicide detective received a prison sentence of more than seven years for purchasing child pornography on the Internet and saving it on his home computer, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.

Surprise opens a $62 million City Hall today, moving from a cramped, former shopping plaza into a four-story building that offers residents "one-stop" services and a community gathering place.