Rachel Lund

A microburst hit the Loop 101 last night near the Red Mountain 202. The high winds and rain downed a fiber optic cable shutting off traffic in both directions and leaving many commuters stranded.

Severe weather struck parts of the West Valley on Thursday night. High winds and heavy rain left many without power and others injured.

In the next three years, a 5-million-square-foot biomedical campus in downtown Phoenix will be constructed. It will include research and clinical groups from all three state universities as well as governmental and private firms. So far, one quarter of the campus has been built.

Arizona State University biomedical engineers are teaming up with Phoenix Children’s Hospital to become pioneers in the field of three-dimensional heart models. A recent grant will allow this one-of-a-kind 3-D Cardiac Print Lab to expand, changing the lives of patients and surgeons.

A new study ranks Arizona's rural roads as seventh most deadly in the country. The Road Information Program, a national research group also found that rural roads in Arizona have a fatality rate at two and a half times higher than all other roads in the state.

Valley Metro will start laying tracks on their light rail extension project tomorrow. The new line will add three stations and end at Dunlap and 19th Avenue.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has granted endangered species protection to two rare snakes found in Arizona and New Mexico.

Residents in Oak Creek Canyon are keeping their eyes open for any kind of rain this season

The first dust storm of the season swept through Phoenix last night.

Burnout operations conducted at the San Juan Fire will increase smoke and fire activity in northeastern Arizona. Nearly nine square miles have been burned in an attempt to slow the fire’s progress.