Authorities say a 52-year-old worker died at a southwest Valley construction site on Wednesday.
According to Buckeye police, an employee operating a loader hit and killed Luis Valdez.
State safety regulators have been sent to investigate the scene near Miller Road and Historic U.S. Route 80.
Their findings will take four to five months and then go before the Arizona Industrial Commission.
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The federal government has awarded a contract worth up to $700 million to a controversial security contractor that staffs Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” to operate a planned immigration detention facility in Surprise. -
A watchdog group has accused a Valley landowner of exploiting a loophole in Salt River Project’s rules to use a large property to influence the outcome of the utility’s 2024 board races, before flipping the land to a data center developer for hundreds of millions of dollars. -
A lawsuit brought by homebuilders to invalidate actions by the state’s water department was back in court on Friday. The outcome of the case could upend the state’s entire groundwater protection framework. -
After weeks of speculation about what the 400,000-square-foot warehouse in Surprise might be used for, the documents confirm it will be retrofitted as an ICE detention center, potentially housing 7,000 to 10,000 detainees for months at a time — numbers much higher than previously known. -
There’s a brand new theater company in the West Valley. It’s called The 602 Stage, and they’re targeting this fall for their first production.
