Featured

A power outage Monday, caused by an excavator clipping a powerline on North Green Road, affected the Electrical District No. 3 Farrell Substation and...

Editor's note: On Dec. 20, 2023, a Maricopa municipal judge dismissed Novosyolov's charges. He was not found guilty of any crime. A Maricopa man was...

The Maricopa Arts Council invites abstract-art entries for its online art competition, “Anything Goes.”  The free contest is open to all Maricopa residents 14...

From gadgets to engines, Mark McCoin is no newbie to inventing. McCoin, 61, a machinist at an aerospace manufacturing company in Phoenix, has tinkered since...

Cotton is swallowed up by a picker in the field behind John and Mary Lou Smith's house in the 1980s, when farmers grew about...

Residents with security cameras in The Villages at Rancho El Dorado and Maricopa Manor subdivisions are asked by Maricopa police to review their footage...

Two men died this past year in separate police-involved shootings outside their homes in the Homestead and The Villages at Rancho El Dorado neighborhoods. One...

A barbeque joint closed one of its two Maricopa shops after nearly seven years in business.  A note on the door of Dickey’s Barbeque Pit,...

State Route 347: The bane of all Maricopans’ existence, yet a constant in our lives. After failure of Proposition 469 in November pushing solutions farther...

According to Pinal County Environmental Services, nine inspections were done from Jan. 9 to Jan. 27.      Excellent rating    Culver’s (Inspected Jan. 26)  Firehouse Subs (Inspected...

Maricopa, which is attempting to identify and cultivate future leaders, will conduct a four-week course to prepare them for such roles. The Maricopa Citizen Leadership...

Developers of the city’s proposed second hospital are looking to also develop a mixed use/multi-family project the northeastern corner of North White and Parker...

It was a busy year for city police and fire personnel, with a particularly active month of March. Here are the highlights — and...

A weekend house party late Saturday at a vacant home in The Lakes at Rancho El Dorado ended early Sunday with the arrest of...

The year ended with new leaders in the city’s police and fire departments after a retirement, hiring, resignation and promotion. Chief Brady Leffler, who had...

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...

  A Maricopa man is accused by police of robbery after he reportedly took a woman’s firearm from her purse and then “choked her out”...

There were more deaths during 2022 on the stretch of State Route 347 from Interstate 10 south to Maricopa. In the first, last Jan. 27,...

An ambitious commercial project that would bring a second hospital and an innovation campus to Maricopa is moving ahead. In September, City Council approved the...

A herd of wild horses running in the chilly Wednesday-morning weather caused commuters on State Route 347 to stop or slow to take a...

  Mark Goodman’s first day on the job as Maricopa’s new police chief was Monday morning, Jan. 23. He comes to Maricopa from Pasadena, Calif., where...

There was no mention of an ice-skating rink being among amenities at Lake View Park during the groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday, but it was plenty...

City Manager Rick Horst on Monday laid out the city’s proposals to improve traffic flow on State Route 347 during a presentation to the...

An elementary-school student was transported to a hospital Tuesday morning after being struck by a vehicle near a busy intersection close to a school,...

Public safety along Porter Road took center stage in May as City Council granted final rezoning approval for a 536-unit apartment complex on the...

A project to improve northbound traffic flow on State Route 347 north of Smith-Enke Road is expected to go to bid this summer. The work...

Two teams comprising Maricopa middle-school students in blended-learning programs placed among the top five Saturday in the regional Future Cities competition at ASU Preparatory...

A man wearing a ski mask was arrested on suspicion of running up to another man and pointing a handgun at him on Jan....

  Maricopa’s new Police Chief Mark Goodman begins his tenure Monday morning, Jan. 23. He comes to Maricopa from Pasadena, Calif., where he served 28 years...

Soon, new bridges at Broadway Road and 48th Street will open. Work on collector-distributor roads from U.S. 60/Superstition Freeway to State Route 143/Hohokam Expressway are...