There has been no shortage of discussions about how Phoenix has grown and evolved, and how it’ll grow and evolve in the future. An event starting Thursday will continue those talks and look to present some new ideas, at the second annual Phoenix Urban Design Week.

The Tucson Unified School District is on the hunt for a new superintendent.

People who commit high-profile acts of gun violence are often mentally ill, like Adam Lanza, James Holmes and Jared Loughner. Conversations about gun control often come with calls for improved mental health care, but while people understand the mental health care system needs to be improved, that doesn’t mean they can tell when someone actually needs help.

The Border Patrol is warning of the dangers of crossing the Arizona desert as temperatures shoot up this month.

The Arizona Senate on Monday gave preliminary approval to a bill that would ban cities and counties from destroying guns turned in at buybacks.

 She took her first plunge sometime in the early 1960s. A storm in 2010 ended her career, but now Mesa’s "Diving Lady" is about to return.

We are pleased to share the voices and conversations of our community from StoryCorps Phoenix. StoryCorp Phoenix is the project that records the stories of everyday people and archives them at the Library of Congress.

The Arizona Diamondbacks open their season tonight at Chase Field against the St. Louis Cardinals. It will be a much different team that takes the field for Arizona, with two of the three starting outfielders, Chris Young and Justin Upton, having been traded. And there will be a lot of other changes this year to “Opening Day” according to Barry Bloom of MLB.com.

The Speaker of the Arizona House Andy Tobin says lawmakers are on target for wrapping up their session, but he's willing to put on the brakes to give Governor Jan Brewer a break.