El Mirage News

A store security guard was kidnapped after catching three men loading bundles of cardboard onto their truck.

Improvement work is under way at the intersection of Dysart and Waddell roads. Right now, most of the work involves relocating utilities, preparing for the more intensive roadway improvements coming after the first of the year.

Doctors expect a 39-year-old man to survive serious injuries after being shot at least two times at a Halloween party in El Mirage on Saturday night, police say.

A northwest Valley couple that loves to decorate their home for the kids during the holiday was robbed of their Halloween decorations Saturday night.

The wait is over. The first grocery store to open in downtown Phoenix in nearly 30 years is celebrating with sales, raffles, a silent auction and $45-per-person happy hour 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday with Arizona wines and beer and light appetizers by Valley chefs.

Residents can learn more about a project to widen El Mirage Road at an open house from 5-7 p.m., Wednesday at the Dysart Community Center, 14414 N. El Mirage Road, El Mirage.

The city of El Mirage has hired a lobbying firm headed by former Mesa Congressman Matt Salmon to help with efforts related to Luke Air Force Base and the possibility of F-35 training coming to the Glendale base.

A 32-year-old Phoenix man is under arrest in connection to a fatal drunk driving accident.

One person died and three others were seriously injured after an early-morning crash in El Mirage early Saturday.

Two El Mirage residents have filed papers to fill the vacant council seat left open by former Mayor Fred Waterman, who resigned last month.

Two years ago, the El Mirage Police Department was struggling for survival. The agency had been deemed so unreliable that, for a time, the city depended on the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office to patrol its streets.

Luke Air Force Base will be among the topics discussed today in El Mirage during a Quality of Life and Sustainability Forum.

Maintaining a regional transit system in the face of declining transportation funds is a problem facing many cities.

Back when Land Speed Racing was young, a group of men that had been racing on the dry lakes for several years decided to create a new racing organization which became the Southern California Timing Association, an all volunteer organization of 12 land speed racing clubs around the country.

For the average person, the name So-Cal Speed Shop may invoke thoughts of Deuce roadsters, traditional hot rod parts, or even early dry lakes racing.

Gov. Jan Brewer said Wednesday that concerns by El Mirage officials about increase noise if Luke Air Force Base becomes a training site for the new F-35 jet are overblown.

El Mirage officials sent a letter to the Department of Defense and Arizona's congressional delegation urging the department to complete a full environmental impact study that includes test-flying the F-35, the new aircraft at Luke, to assess its true volume.

El Mirage police say they unexpectedly came upon an explosive device early Tuesday after they stopped a Sun City West man who was believed to have smashed a vehicle window.

Months after a 12-year-old boy admitted to shoplifting, a group of his peers questioned him at the Surprise City Court.

Elected officials say the Surprise finance director who announced his resignation Tuesday should bear some responsibility for the lack of oversight in severance overpayments to 21 former city employees.