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After years of effort on the part of scores of pickleball players, newly installed courts are ready for an opening-day celebration Saturday.IF YOU GO What:...

Central Arizona College launched its new partnership with Maricopa High School in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday. CAC Connect gives the college office space in the...

There is no off-season for MHS football; just out-of-season. That’s where head coach Brandon Harris has tracked improvement in the players coming back from...

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...

Practice opened for the Maricopa High School swim team this week, with around 45 students showing up for the Rams. Varsity's swim season beings...

By Cara Lovegrove Dear Editor and Fellow Citizens of Maricopa, Recently, I was given the opportunity to serve my community and failed you. I want to...

Despite rainy conditions in Tucson, Maricopa’s Nara Lesperance won the girls’ 10-11 age bracket in the sub-regional Drive, Chip & Putt competition. The win qualifies...

Retired PGA golfer and current NBC/Golf Channel analyst Notah Begay III hosted clinics for children and adults Saturday morning as part of a weekend...

Say good-bye to the Maricopa Mud Run, at least for now. The past two years, as it became clear the City of Maricopa was making...

Alan Quezada of Phoenix finished the first round in a three-way tie for first place at 1-over 73 before following up with a blistering...

Several wild ducks have died at a local urban lake in what is suspected to be avian botulism. The outbreak was noticed in the middle...

The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced Aidan Balt of Maricopa High School has been offered a...

Notah Begay III, current NBC Sports and Golf Channel commentator and a four-time winner on the PGA Tour, will host two, free one-hour golf...

  When Jonathan Lesperance decided he was going to learn to play golf, he also decided it was going to be a family education. “He taught...

It’s a first for Maricopa. Vincent “Vinnie” Latona earned a gold medal for internetworking in the SkillsUSA National Championships in June. He represented not only...

A 12-year-old softball player from Alterra finished second in the MLB Pitch, Hit & Run national championship during MLB All-Star Week in Cleveland. Danica Gutierrez...

Baseball is not just a sport but a lifestyle for Maricopa eighth grader Brody Matcuk. July 15, Brody saw his name on the 13U southwest...

Most schools in Maricopa start the New Year this week and prepared for opening day with Meet the Teacher nights. Maricopa Unified School District...

Some kids are water dogs. Others never get over their fear of the water, never learning to swim well enough to save themselves. This school...

A career and technical student who graduated from Maricopa High School in May won one of the nation's highest awards at the 2019 SkillsUSA...

The children from Baby Fox Academy received a special visit from Apex Motor Club today. As part of the summer curriculum, the preschoolers have...

If it’s July, school must be about to start. That means a lot of changes, new faces, new programs and high expectations. Maricopa Unified School...

By Joan Koczor Falls are a real and growing risk to older adults’ health and independence and, in some cases, to their very lives. Falls...

Believed to have been taken between 1900 and 1920, this photo of a train at the pumping station with the iconic water tower nearby...

The City of Maricopa and Ak-Chin had simultaneous celebrations of the Fourth of July on Thursday, which created lots of fireworks and water slides...

By Harriet Phelps This topic is probably not one that your mother discussed with you. In Arizona, the sunrises and sunsets are the best time...

Maricopa's VFW Post hosted a brief flag-raising ceremony Thursday morning for Independence Day. Ray Propst, Bruce Boenning and David Hixon raised the stars-and-stripes, and...

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another,...

A Nov. 5 election ballot won’t be asking voters for a $50 million, $65 million or $75 million bond for Maricopa Unified School District....

With construction of its campus behind schedule, the new Heritage Academy will start the school year with classes off-site, according to information released to...