For his service to the Peoria community, Joey Lucidi, owner of Westside Concepts, has been named the Peoria Independent Hometown Hero in the Joey Lucidi category for 2023.
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Perry Rea, his family and his Queen Creek Olive Mill have become a fixture in Queen Creek.
Hailing from Ontario and Detroit, Rea started his business in Queen Creek in 2005 “out of a …
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Marine Tad Snidecor was working in the Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma on April 19, 1995 when ex-Army soldier and security guard Timothy McVeigh parked a rented Ryder truck in front it.
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Peoria City Council and the mayor have asked Vice Mayor Denette Dunn to resign from the board because of her involvement with a family friend who is a sex offender, convicted of crimes 40 years ago.
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Former Maricopa County Sheriff and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration official Joe Arpaio has announced his candidacy for the 2024 mayoral race in Fountain Hills.
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From the first cool days in fall to the eve of the summer heat, the Queen Creek Family Market is open for business. For years, the Queen Creek Family Market has offered residents a place where they …
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Leilani Wilcox is a special-education specialist for the Chandler Unified School District and supports and coaches special-education teachers across the district. Prior to becoming a specialist, …
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The Chandler City Council’s unanimous approval of its annual property tax levies, at its June 29 meeting, put an official end to the fiscal year 2024 budget planning cycle.
At that …
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In the wake of Mayor Jason Beck’s election last November, the city of Peoria experienced an exodus of at least six employees in the city’s upper echelon of leadership.
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Gary L. Power is a third-generation Arizonan who strives to use his faith to make his hometown of Queen Creek a positive place for everyone.
He hails from a ranching family, and as a small …
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Reagan Norris was born May 2, 2019 and diagnosed with a cleft lip and a critical Congenital Heart Defect known as right-dominant Unbalanced Atrioventricular Canal defect.
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It’s not uncommon to hear the echoes of an overburdened foster care system in the United States. But some might not know that many developing countries do not even offer a foster care option at all, mired in a system of institutional orphanages that often cause more harm than help.
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