Public Safety

The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising nearby residents, businesses and the traveling public to plan for an extended full intersection closure at Honeycutt...

The Arizona Department of Transportation has added to the ways drivers see the posted speed limit on a stretch of State Route 347.   The speed...

Members of the Maricopa High School football teams visited Maricopa Police Department and City Hall on Saturday. Head coach Brandon Harris planned the visit...

The couple involved in a suspected murder-suicide in Desert Cedars Wednesday have been identified as Matthew and Vanessa Palma Padzunas, both 37. They were reportedly...

Ched Bayles, 30, was arrested Saturday afternoon on suspicion of shoplifting and additional outstanding warrants. According to Maricopa Police reports, officers were dispatched to Ace...

Maricopa Police Department is investigating what appears to be a murder-suicide on Windrose Drive in Desert Cedars. Police were called to the residence around noon...

A Maricopa man was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of assault, disorderly conduct and possession of narcotics. Maricopa Police were dispatched to a residence on...

Maricopans remember Sept. 11, 2001, on the 18th anniversary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnST0OZcmNM

With a goal of reducing traffic congestion on Interstate 10 near Wild Horse Pass, the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), Gila River Indian Community,...

Two people were injured when a small plane crashed into a building at Ak-Chin Regional Airport on Tuesday morning. A news release from Ak-Chin Indian...

Maricopa Unified School District notified parents over the weekend of a "potential threat of a weapon on campus on Monday" at the high school. The...

A series of fights on and near campus have marred campus life at Maricopa High School this month. A fight broke out Wednesday after school,...

Mathieu Sipes, 21, was arrested in Maricopa after being questioned by police Saturday. According to the Maricopa Police Department report, an officer saw a vehicle...

  A major mistake by the Maricopa Police Department in July earned a live apology from the police chief. “We messed up,” he announced at his...

Maricopa is under a severe thunderstorm warning and a blowing-dust advisory tonight. The thunderstorm warning is in effect until 7:30 p.m. The dust warning is...

Cynthia Rojo Torres, 26, was arrested around noon Aug. 23 with recommended charges of aggravated domestic assault and domestic disorderly conduct. MPD responded to a...

Kent Volkmer, a Republican, was elected Pinal County Attorney in 2016 after several years in private practice. He sat down with InMaricopa to talk...

Update: Maricopa Police reported they gave up the search after an hour scouring the neighborhood. They did not offer a name or description of...

More than two people are killed every day on U.S. roads by drivers blowing through red lights, according to data analysis performed by the...

ADOT -- The new Maricopa Road – between Hathaway Avenue and Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway – will be paved overnight in Maricopa from 8 p.m....

A rollover accident in the southbound lanes of John Wayne Parkway north of Smith-Enke Road stopped traffic next to Cobblestone Farms at the beginning...

Maricopa Police pulled over Crystal Montijo, 33, who was driving a vehicle that was reported stolen. Police approached the vehicle just south of State...

  Family and friends of Tina and Michael Careccia packed the pews of Judge Christopher O’Neil’s fourth-floor courtroom for the sentencing of Jose Valenzuela, who...

  A pre-trial conference has been set for Veronica and Corey Masterson, a Maricopa couple accused of child abuse. Friday, the couple, who are free on...

Maricopa Police Department had calls from two schools this week for very different reasons. Thursday night, Leading Edge Academy reported a SnapChat message by a...

A Maricopa woman was arrested in Rancho El Dorado around 5 p.m. Monday on suspicion of aggravated harassment. A Maricopa Police officer made contact with...

A Maricopa man was arrested late Thursday night on suspicion of criminal damage, disorderly conduct, and domestic assault. Police were called to a Senita residence...

A local man died, and two people were injured in a crash Sunday night. According to Maricopa Police Department, the one-vehicle rollover occurred near the...

  ADOT - The southbound lanes of State Route 347 are closed due to a crash at milepost 188, the junction of Maricopa Road west...

Yonatan Vasquez Vides, 25, was arrested Friday night after an altercation at McDonald’s was videoed. A local woman who was at McDonald’s on John Wayne...