Sun City West News

Alice Wilcox of Sun City West isn't one to back down from a challenge. Her son, Judson, was born with his esophagus going into his lungs instead of his stomach.

Sun Health Auxiliary will have special boutiques at Banner Boswell and Banner Del E. Webb medical centers in November and December to get local residents in the holiday spirit.

Sun Citians Eugene and Valeri Difondi drove to the Valley View Community Food Bank in their min-van Monday with 100 turkeys.

The next SunCities/West Valley NOW meeting will be at 1 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Unitarian Church of Surprise, 17540 N. Avenue of the Arts, Surprise.

Strike supporters say they need a better wage increase if management wants them to start paying for health insurance About a thousand members of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 99 gathered Wednesday night in a hotel ballroom near Sky Harbor Airport for a planning rally before Friday night's anticipated strike against Safeway and ...

Jets thundered in the skies over Sun City Grand Wednesday, an 89-year-old veteran in Sun City West told of how he was blown out of his B-17 after it caught fire and, in Sun City, a man wounded in Vietnam said: "We are often asked, 'Why do we fight?' The answer is very complicated, but also very simple: We fight not for glory, but for the prize of ...

Even before shoppers could get to the sale, they knew they were in for a big event.

Joyce McGill of Sun City West was on a mission Saturday morning. She visited the Rip 'N Sew Club booth at the 31st annual fall arts and crafts festival in Sun City West in search of her favorite purse she says aficionados call the "Sun City West Gucci." "I have a half dozen of them," McGill said.

Preventing falls is a major part of ensuring healthy aging. Falls are responsible for injuries that can threaten independent living and even result in death.

Residents of Sun City West may soon have a flag to call their own. If an idea backed by the Recreation Centers governing board and Property Owners and Residents Association is approved at the regular board meeting later this month, at least six flags bearing a bright sun and the words "Sun City West, Arizona" may soon wave around the community.

The Fire District of Sun City West is gearing up to brighten the holiday season for local families by participating in the Adopt-A-Family program.

Holli Sandeen of the Sun City West Fire District wants the community she serves to be prepared if a flood rushes through, an earthquake rips the area or a chemical spill happens along Grand Avenue, causing the evacuation of residents.

Improvements to the Stardust Pro Shop in Sun City West didn't surprise resident Dan O'Connell one bit.

An experimental plane made a rough landing near the Glendale Airport Friday morning.

Recreation Centers of Sun City West Member Services staff members, dressed up for Halloween as mice and cats.

For the sixth year in a row, Bob's Variety Store in the Sundome Shopping Center will have luminarias for sale.

Following the replacement of some billiards equipment at R.H. Johnson Lanes a couple months ago, Sun City West resident Bruce De Lis started looking for a good place to donate the used items.

Healthcare Trust of America, Inc has executed a Purchase and Sale Agreement to acquire a 17-building portfolio located in Northwest Phoenix, Arizona for approximately $107,000,000. The portfolio is located within the Sun City and Sun City West communities and on or near the campus of two significant Banner Health hospitals .

Lakes West Golf Course in Sun City will reopen Saturday - two days earlier than expected - after nearly four months of bunker renovations.

RACINE -- Eleanor E. Crane, July 26, 1913 -- Oct. 16, 2009. Eleanor Crane died peacefully in her sleep early Friday morning at her daughter's home in Sun City West, Ariz.