By Sammie Ann Wicks “I was always a big girl—since my teens,” says Chandler resident Janet Castro. Things have changed for Castro now, though: she’s lost more than 60 pounds in just one...

  By Lee Shappell Special for Wrangler News Perseverance. Determination. Hard work. Andrew Weber says they’re his pillars of success. Weber, who grew up in Tempe, rode those attributes to a Division 1 college scholarship in...

By Wrangler News Staff The daily grind of working 9 to 5 may have spawned a 1980 pop-chart hit, but the emotion behind the pithy lyrics lives on decades later. It’s not hard...

By Wrangler News staff For Patty White, retirement may be a bit of a challenge. After 35 years of juggling increasingly responsible roles with Dignity Health, the longtime Tempe resident and former...

By Wrangler News Staff The number of individuals in Tempe experiencing homelessness rose from 276 in 2018 to 373 in 2019, according to data gathered during last January’s Point-in-Time count held throughout the...

  By Wrangler News Staff District I supervisor Jack Sellers, a former Chandler councilmember, may be a relative newcomer to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, but there’s nothing new about his advocacy for...

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By Wrangler News Staff The city of Tempe wants all of us to be prepared for when the tropical storms bear down, bringing dust, debris and plenty of lightning in their wake. The...