Ahwatukee Foothills News

Ahwatukee Foothills News is a weekly publication that caters to the Ahwatukee area in Phoenix. The newspaper primarily focuses on education and sports, featuring news related to the two local high schools: Mountain Pointe High School and Desert Vista High School, which are part of the Tempe Union High School District.

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Gov. Hobbs adds 33 vetoes to her 2025 hit list

2 days ago | ahwatukee.com | Howard Fischer

Gov. Katie Hobbs has nixed legislation designed to promote greater cooperation between local officials and federal immigration agents. In a flurry of vetoes late Friday, the governor also rejected a host of proposed changes in state water laws, alterations to statutes governing the conduct of elections and even a prohibition against any rules designed to ensure that laying hens have enough room to spread their wings.
Tempe school districts sticking with 2-2-2 calendars

1 week ago | ahwatukee.com | Paul Maryniak

When the three Tempe-based school districts began coordinating their calendars to synch two-week breaks for the fall, the Christmas holidays and spring, not all families were happy.
Statue gives Chandler welding students real-life experience

1 week ago | ahwatukee.com | Ken Sain

Alex Avila said he remembers when he was a young man, eager to find a good-paying job and start his adult life. “I know when you go in and you apply, they say, ‘Oh, you don’t have any experience,” said Avila, the plant manager for SteelFab Arizona, at 1100 N. Hamilton St. in Chandler.
Kyrene School District policy puts Trump administration bullseye on district

1 week ago | ahwatukee.com | Paul Maryniak

Aproposed policy by Kyrene School District to address teachers’ and other staffers' social-emotional well-being has put the district on a collision course with the Trump administration and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne. And the outcome could cost the district $1.5 million this school year, according to Horne.
Phoenix begins new search for a police chief

1 week ago | ahwatukee.com | Paul Maryniak

Phoenix is going back to the drawing board in a search for a new police chief after announcing last week that Interim Chief Michael Sullivan withdrew his candidacy for the job.
AZ Hugs founder sues Tempe, city manager

1 week ago | ahwatukee.com | Lee Shappell

Austin Davis, the founder of AZ Hugs who was cited 34 times from December 2023 through May 2024 for feeding homeless people in city parks without a special-event permit, has filed suit in U.S. District Court against Tempe and City Manager Rosa Inchausti, alleging violation of his constitutional rights. Davis is joined in his suit by Ron Tapscott of New Deal Meal and Jane Parker of HOPE Arizona. Tapscott, 78, was warned Jan. 19 and then cited Jan.
Kyrene teacher faces costly breast cancer battle

1 week ago | ahwatukee.com | Paul Maryniak

Friends and colleagues are rallying around a beloved Kyrene elementary school music teacher and choir director who is in the battle of – and for – her life. Brenda Mulkey, a Chandler resident who has been serving mainly Kyrene schools in Ahwatukee for 29 years, only 28 days ago was diagnosed with a rare form of breast cancer and already has racked up thousands of dollars on tests, scans – and travel-related expenses for trip to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
Ahwatukee Recreation Center HOA members torn over buyers' fee proposal

2 weeks ago | ahwatukee.com | Paul Maryniak

An election next week on a proposed buyers' fee on the sale price for any of the approximate 1,600 homes in the Ahwatukee Recreation Center HOA has created a bitter divide among members. The HOA’s board has proposed the buyer’s fee as an alternative to an increase in annual dues or a special assessment, but even board President Andy Wangstad admits the results on April 17 “will be close” and blames it on “misinformation” spread by opponents.
Panel urges Kyrene override vote this fall

2 weeks ago | ahwatukee.com | Paul Maryniak

It was a catchy phrase that resonated throughout the room as the moderator went from table to table and, for the most part, each leader said, “5 for ’25.”Five people at almost every table, a vote for 2025 from them all. That phrase carried great import for the Kyrene School District as the Long-Range Planning Committee voted March 26 to recommend that the Governing Board next month call for a special election in November for renewal of the district’s 15% Maintenance and Operations Override.
Tempe Union pupil decline forecast for next 10 years

2 weeks ago | ahwatukee.com | Paul Maryniak

Tempe Union High School District faces enrollment decline for at least the next 10 years, a demographer warned the Governing Board. Presenting an update on what has become a consistently dismal outlook the last few years, Rick Brammer of Applied Demographics told the board on April 2 that Tempe Union’s current enrollment of 11,821 will likely fall to under 9,700 students by that time. And that decline has accelerated in the last two years, he said.