Colin Stanton

3 weeks ago | azfamily.com | Colin Stanton |Gary Harper

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Here in Arizona, your mail is likely delivered to a cluster box. A lot of neighborhoods have them. And if anything happens to yours, you may be waiting a while to get it fixed. Jose Pujol used to walk to his neighborhood mailbox just around the corner from his southwest Phoenix home. But last September, Pujol went to check his mail and got a surprise. “I came home from work, and I walked out here and they were gone,” he said.

1 month ago | azfamily.com | Colin Stanton |Gary Harper

SURPRISE, AZ (AZFamily) — On Your Side has reported on SunPower solar customers’ struggles since the company went bankrupt. Leasing customers had no way to get repairs, but they had to keep making their monthly payments. Now things are looking brighter. Alicia Armstrong says thanks to On Your Side, problems with her broken solar system have finally been fixed.

1 month ago | azfamily.com | Colin Stanton |Gary Harper

MESA, AZ (AZFamily) — A Mesa woman is frustrated that a city of Mesa water project seriously damaged her property, and no one is stepping up to make things right. Yassna Javadpour is a single mom who has reached her limit. She’s dealing with a plumbing problem she says was caused by the city of Mesa. “When you turned on the faucets in the house, it was completely full of debris,” she said.

1 month ago | azfamily.com | Colin Stanton |Gary Harper

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — In previous On Your Side reports, we explained how SunPower Solar’s bankruptcy last year left its leasing customers without a way to get their systems repaired. Now there’s a new company in charge, but customers are still experiencing frustration when trying to get help. Alicia Armstrong and her family had solar panels installed by SunPower about eight years ago. They’ve been very happy with the system because their AC bill was slashed for their 3,000-square-foot Surprise home.

Mar 6, 2025 | theazweekend.com | Colin Stanton |Gary Harper

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Twenty years ago, in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Congress passed more stringent ID requirements if you want to travel by plane. Now, those requirements are finally going into place, and you have two months to upgrade before the TSA requires them. The Arizona Travel ID, more commonly known as a “REAL ID,” looks much like your driver’s license but with one key difference: a little star is in the upper right corner.