Harry Mitchell spent 28 years teaching American government and economics at Tempe High School, but he insists it was the lessons he taught his own son and daughter that bring a smile to his face today ...

Tempe is investing in training and equipment to enable the city’s Fire Medical Rescue personnel to provide responses that can be coordinated with police units being dispatched to the same active crime ...

One of the first things we are taught as children is the value of sharing. Some of us spend our entire lives and never catch on. Others learn early that sharing is a way of life. We could all take a ...

Students and teachers from around the world, including one from the Kyrene Corridor, participated in four days of inspiration, enrichment and music last month at Yamaha Jamboree 2004 in Phoenix. Among ...

Editor’s note: Wrangler News contributor M.V. Moorhead and photographer Billy Hardiman accompanied members of the famed, centuriesold boys choir from Germany during their Sister Cities outing to the ...

Facing a $1 billion budget reduction and even deeper cuts pending from the Arizona Legislature, Kyrene schools are using innovative ways to make up for the shortfall. “Many of our school programs have ...

Whenever I think about barbecued ribs, I think about my mother and my first trip to a genuine Southern BBQ joint, Minneapolis style. Mom had taken me to an ...

Kids who like Jackie Chan will enjoy the high-flying action and consider the frequent sexual innuendo boorish (you hope). You can’t have everything. At least there’s no sex, nudity, blood, bad ...

The city of Tempe reunited with its 15-year-old “sister” recently at Tempe Mission Palms Hotel. These sisters, however, don’t speak the same language, are separated by an ocean and live unique ...

Although the light rail system due to connect Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa will be limited initially to east-west routing, it’s unlikely that north-south commuters will have to hoof it to a distant train ...

Every year, an assemblage of Valley Jews gathers around an oversized menorah to hoist it up Tempe’s A-Mountain and to bring the Tempe Jewish community a little closer together. Getting the object of ...