MARICOPA — After a year of standing six-feet apart, the community of Maricopa and its members are getting ready for the opening of a new community center this summer, and the return of simple joys like sharing a good conversation over a cup of joe and some doughnuts.

MARICOPA — Ten-year Maricopa resident Francesca Wikoff got quite the surprise as she exited her home in the Homestead South community on Thursday morning: a severed phalange lying on the concrete.

MARICOPA — A water main break that occurred overnight on Thursday left Maricopa Fire Station 571 off Porter Road without running water.

MARICOPA — A two-hour Planning and Zoning Commission meeting on Tuesday night gave more insight into a proposed development to the southeast of the Honeycutt and Hartman roads intersection.

FLORENCE — A 30-day comment period has begun for Pinal County’s 2021 Five-Year Transportation Improvement and Maintenance Program, which runs through May 17. The Pinal County Board of Supervisors will consider approval of it on May 26.

PHOENIX — A liberal watchdog group is accusing Oro Valley Republican legislator and secretary of state hopeful Mark Finchem of violating Arizona campaign finance law by asking supporters to donate to his personal PayPal and Venmo accounts to pay off an unofficial election integrity hearing.

FLORENCE — Pinal County has stopped providing the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine until further notice after federal and state health officials recommended a “pause” Tuesday.

MARICOPA — A man driving on Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway on Thursday witnessed an assault in progress and took matters into his own hands to help the alleged victim.

CHANDLER – A three-vehicle crash has slowed traffic on Interstate 10 at milepost 167.

FLORENCE — Being more than an hour away from either of Pinal County’s Family Advocacy Centers in Eloy and San Tan Valley, the city of Maricopa started its own a few years ago as a service to its most vulnerable crime victims.

FLORENCE — Pinal County has adequate supplies of COVID-19 vaccine and the demand for it appears to be waning.

MARICOPA — As dispensaries across the state open up for recreational marijuana sales, Maricopa residents grapple with policy decisions on the issue at both the city and state level.

MARICOPA – A California man is facing charges after he allegedly punched and kicked another man.

PHOENIX — Over the past year and into 2021, police agencies in Arizona have received $6.8 million in military equipment through the Law Enforcement Support Office of the Department of Defense, documents show.

MARICOPA – A Maricopa man is facing charges after allegedly firing off several rounds into the desert near several bystanders.

MARICOPA — A weekend collision left a vehicle and business with about $5,000 in damages, according to Maricopa Police.

MARICOPA — Firefighters carry a medley of tools on their fire trucks when they head to the scene of an accident, and on Thursday morning, Maricopa Fire Department received another new gadget for use in the field.

PHOENIX — A Senate panel voted 6-4 along party lines Wednesday to bar companies from refusing to serve customers who are not vaccinated.

MARICOPA — A Maricopa man is facing charges after allegedly providing a false ID to a law enforcement officer when he was pulled over for drunken driving.

PHOENIX — One of the leading proponents of the claims of election fraud in Arizona now wants to be in charge of the system.

MARICOPA — Resident Sergio Ocampo was hit and killed last week on John Wayne Parkway and Honeycutt Road in Maricopa, according to Maricopa Police.

WASHINGTON — Tribes in Arizona will get another $88 million in housing grants — the most of any state — from the $450 million in tribal housing assistance released Thursday by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

CASA GRANDE — A Maricopa man is facing charges after he allegedly tried to steal vehicles from two elderly women and hit a 75-year-old man at a local gas station.

FLORENCE — Trusting that a pending state law will give them more time to draw new Pinal County supervisor districts, county staff plans to present new boundaries to the Board of Supervisors in June 2022.

MARICOPA — The Maricopa Economic Development Alliance went through a makeover in 2020, dubbed MEDA 2.0, and as part of the ongoing upgrades, the board decided to hire long-time board member Adam Saks as new executive director.

PHOENIX — It's billed by its sponsor as simply an effort to ensure consistency in medical practice.

MARICOPA — On Tuesday night, Maricopa fire crews were dispatched to help local fire crews fight a house fire in Goodyear.

MARICOPA — A woman and her 1-year-old daughter were driving through the Glennwilde community in Maricopa on Sunday when they allegedly were accosted by a man who threatened them with a gun and demanded the driver take him to Mesa.

MARICOPA — A two-story home caught fire Monday morning on Windmill Drive in the Maricopa Meadows community.

MARICOPA — A Saturday afternoon crash on State Route 238 left two of the three individuals involved dead.

MARICOPA — An elderly Phoenix driver who just wanted a quick dinner from McDonald’s found herself in Maricopa Thursday night after making a few wrong turns.

MARICOPA — Lilyana McLaughlin is rare for a lot of reasons. The Maricopa seventh grader is a Leap Day baby — one of the less than 0.1% of people born on Feb. 29 — and her family says her loving nature and infectious laugh make her just as rare.