West Valley

Luke Air Force Base near Glendale spent about an hour on lockdown Friday morning due to a report of an active shooter.

Opposition from Republican state lawmakers has members of the Phoenix City Council concerned that a westward expansion of the light rail system — and the hundreds of millions of federal dollars that would help pay for it — is in jeopardy.

A Tolleson school board voted Tuesday against building a widely criticized $80 million domed football stadium.

According to BNSF, the project, formally titled Logistics Park Phoenix, will include a rail-served terminal, a logistics center and a logistics park. The proposal says the project will bring upward of 76,000 jobs during and after construction.

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday unanimously rejected a land-use proposal near Wittmann submitted by BNSF Railway. The company says the move won’t prevent a freight facility from being built.

A little more than two years ago, the state Department of Water Resources announced a moratorium on building new homes in some parts of the Valley that rely on groundwater. That came after the agency determined that there wasn’t an assured hundred-year water supply in those areas, as required under state law.

An escalating fight between state lawmakers and Tolleson Union High School District Superintendent Jeremy Calles led to an audit of the district’s finances and a defamation lawsuit against a lawmaker this week.

A gold mine is popping up near Wickenburg, quite literally. The Bureau of Land Management has approved about 330 public acres to be used for the project.

The Show visited Litchfield Park and the Wigwam Resort. Now it’s a well-known resort, but it didn’t start out that way. Lisa Hegarty, executive director at the P.W. Litchfield Heritage Center, talked to The Show about it's impact and history on the West Valley.