Community News

Kyrene del Norte alum and film writer-director Johnny Ysaguirre, delivers an award-winning short film in "Nice Shirt."

Most Chandler and Tempe municipal services will be on holiday schedules the weeks of Dec. 20, in honor of Christmas, and Dec. 27, in honor of New Year’s.

In a difficult year, three burgeoning faith communities in Tempe and West Chandler, have not lost their spirit of giving.

The grassroots group Keep Our Kids in School will conduct a rally at 6 p.m. on Dec. 16 in front of the Tempe Union High School District office in an attempt to persuade it to reopen campuses, which went to virtual-learning-only Nov. 30 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The tech industry’s already large footprint in West Chandler is growing yet again with Comtech EF Data Corp. recently signing a 15-year lease for the entire 146,000 square feet at 305 N. 54th St.

Chandler Regional Medical Center frontline health-care workers will be among the first in the Valley to receive the long-awaited vaccine for COVID-19.

If you think bumper-to-bumper traffic is bad now on the Broadway Curve on Interstate 10 in Tempe, wait until the ADOT bulldozers and graders get there next summer for 3-plus years of reconstruction.

Parents in Tempe's three public-school districts have grown weary of campuses being shut down in favor of virtual-only learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.