On her daughter’s wedding day, Denise Cummings found comfort in being surrounded by family and friends.

It's Dan Henderson's job to bring more jobs to Gilbert, a community of more than 200,000 whose top employer by far is the school district.

Chaparral Elementary School students can safely cross Higley Road now that a long-awaited traffic signal at Higley and Frye roads was turned on Wednesday afternoon, almost a year after the Higley Unified School District had requested it for student safety.

The arrest of a suspected shoe thief and a suspected meth dealer helped Mesa police uncover a hoard of stolen possessions, authorities said.

Thomas Grade is tough to pin down. The 57-year-old Gilbert man suspected in a hit-and-run crash last month that spurred a wild chase through Mesa and Gilbert and ran a police car into a wall, who then barricaded himself in his home, still hasn't been arrested.