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This image shows the second phase of the Sonoran Desert Parkway, which will continue from Porter to Fuqua roads. [Courtesy of City of Maricopa]

Sonoran Desert Parkway expansion in next year’s budget

City leaders yesterday shared new information about roadway construction and improvement projects budgeted for the next fiscal year. Top among those was the second phase...

Sonoran Desert Parkway light activated

The installation of a traffic light at Sonoran Desert Parkway and North John Wayne Parkway now gives motorists the green light.  The traffic signal was activated...

Sonoran Desert Parkway opens for traffic

It took $30 million and more than a decade — but for the first time today, Maricopa residents traversed the first leg of the...

BREAKING: Sonoran Desert Parkway to open next week

After more than a decade of work and a recent dramatic saga that sought to delay, the Sonoran Desert Parkway is slated to open...

Maricopa moving forward with Sonoran Desert Parkway

In response to the ongoing battle for control over a crucial Sonoran Desert Parkway intersection between Maricopa and the Ak-Chin Indian Community, the city...

City threatens to cut Ak-Chin out of Sonoran Desert Parkway

The Ak-Chin Indian Community cried trespassing on Thursday, halting Maricopa's construction crew just as they were about to forge the link between John Wayne...

Finish line in sight for Sonoran Desert Parkway

After a scattering of delays and a construction kerfuffle, there's light at the end of the tunnel for a major road project in Maricopa. Deputy...

First leg of Sonoran Desert Parkway on track for summer completion 

The first leg of Sonoran Desert Parkway remains on track for completion this summer, according to a city spokesman. The parkway eventually will provide...

’22 in review: Sonoran Desert Parkway a first for Arizona

Construction officially began on the Sonoran Desert Parkway in June, but the road project is hardly a new idea. The first purpose-built parkway in the state...

Sonoran Desert Parkway an indicator of city’s infrastructure capability

Is Maricopa capable of building big-budget infrastructure projects to help move motorists in high-demand areas? City Councilmember Bob Marsh believes so. Marsh said in a video...

Sonoran Desert Parkway: The rubber meets the road

Construction officially began on the Sonoran Desert Parkway last month, but the road project is hardly a new idea. The first purpose-built parkway in the...

City breaks ground on Sonoran Desert Parkway

The City of Maricopa broke ground Monday on the first leg of what will eventually become a crucial transportation corridor. The Sonoran Desert Parkway, formerly...

Nighttime paving on John Wayne Parkway underway

You might notice a smoother commute this week on Maricopa’s main throughfare.  Construction crews with Tolleson-based Cactus Asphalt is conducting nighttime crack-and-seal work on North...

Poll: Most won’t benefit from new parkway

The Sonoran Desert Parkway opened to the public last week. But it remains nearly empty — at least for now.  The purpose-made parkway currently connects...

SONORA BOREALIS: Maricopan brings Arctic traditions to the desert

Can you really “bloom where you're planted” when you've lived your entire life in a place where the very soil beneath your feet seems...

Construction to impact John Wayne Parkway beginning in May

City of Maricopa officials announced temporary traffic-control changes on John Wayne Parkway aimed at improving safety and traffic flow on the busy thoroughfare in...

Poll: Readers skeptical parkway will take traffic off 347

The City of Maricopa broke ground last week on the initial section of the Sonoran Desert Parkway, an East-West route promoted as an alternative...

BLM signs decision for Sonoran Valley Parkway to Mobile

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today signed a Record of Decision (ROD) that will allow the City of Goodyear to build the proposed...

Fired once before, new city manager has big support

In 2015, Ben Bitter dispatched cops to the frontlines of a protest on the steps of a federal courthouse to tangle with Westboro Baptist...

’23 RECAP: Top stories

InMaricopa readers spoke loudly of their favorite stories in 2023. InMaricopa.com published more than 1,400 stories last year, but readers flocked to two of them...

City creating jobs, economic prosperity by funding transportation corridor

The Pinal County Board of Supervisors established the Pinal Regional Transportation Authority (PRTA) in 2015 as a public improvement and taxing subdivision of the...

Child injured in ATV rollover crash

A child was injured in a rollover crash Saturday afternoon, according to the Maricopa Police Department.  The crash occurred when the driver of a CanAm...

Nighttime restrictions slated for John Wayne

Planning a cruise through town next week to look at decorated holiday homes? Nighttime street work around town may affect your drive.  Construction crews with...
A vandalized traffic sign on North John Wayne Parkway. [Brian Petersheim Jr.]

Major closures to look out for this weekend

A major closure on State Route 238 starting Monday will impact plenty of westward commuters over the next couple weeks.  Construction crews with Cactus Asphalt...
The intersection of North John Wayne Parkway and Ak-Chin Pkwy. Photographed Nov. 16, 2023. [Bryan Mordt]

Installation of controversial stoplight to start next Monday

Installation of a controversial traffic signal at an embattled intersection in southern Maricopa is slated to begin next Monday, City Manager Rick Horst told InMaricopa...

U-TURN: Ak-Chin approves ‘impossible’ permit

After lobbing cease-and-desist letters for more than a year, the Ak-Chin Indian Community has officially abandoned its stance — that the U.S. Bureau of...

My way or the highway

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. For the city of Maricopa and the Ak-Chin Indian Community, Charles Dickens’ timeless...

City tours new ‘big city’ PD station

Maricopa Police Chief Mark Goodman was all smiles during a peek inside his new HQ this week. Goodman led a tour of the city’s new...

20 YEARS: Going on the record

Editor's note: Responses are presented in the order they were received. Vincent Manfredi Maricopan since: 2010 Community: Maricopa Meadows Favorite place in town: My home, when I have...
Amid tensions with the city, Ak-Chin Chairman Robert Miguel speaks in Maricopa Thursday morning. [Elias Weiss]

Ak-Chin chairman: ‘Anything possible’ for resolution in freeway feud

Maricopa tightened the screws Tuesday on the long-anticipated Sonoran Desert Parkway, effectively cutting off access to the Ak-Chin Indian Community — casino complex and...
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