Queen Creek Tribune

The Queen Creek Tribune has been a vital part of the East Valley for over 120 years, tracing its origins back to the Gilbert Sun News, which was initially part of the East Valley Tribune established in 1891. For more than a century, this news outlet has documented the events and developments across all the cities in the East Valley, including Queen Creek. Throughout its long history, the Queen Creek Tribune has evolved into a comprehensive community news source, delivering essential news and updates around the clock. With weekly editions delivered to homes, available at local newsstands, and accessible online at QueenCreekTribune.com, along with a large base of digital subscribers, the QCT stands out as the primary voice for both residents and businesses in the Queen Creek area.

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Survey ties weak demand to mortgage rates

2 weeks ago | queencreektribune.com | Paul Maryniak

A pair of recent surveys by the nation’s seventh largest bank suggests the housing market’s trend away from a sellers’ market may not end soon while buyers won’t exactly be jumping to scoop up homes. The surveys by BMO bank on April 30 and May 1 not only showed that nearly three quarters of potential buyers call current mortgage rates a hindrance to entering the market but that most of them say rates would have to drop below 3% for them to get interested.
Survey found seven homeless people in QC

2 weeks ago | queencreektribune.com | Paul Maryniak

It may surprise some Queen Creek residents that homeless people have been found in town. But on Jan. 27, Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) volunteers interviewed seven unsheltered people in the town during their annual Point In Time (PIT) survey, although it provided no details about them. Whether they were the same seven PIT survey volunteers found last year is unknown, but what is known is that they didn’t live in a shelter because Queen Creek has none.
2024 QC crime rate rose 7% over prior year

3 weeks ago | queencreektribune.com | Paul Maryniak

The overall crime rate in Queen Creek rose 7% last year over 2023, driven mainly by increases in simple assaults and petty theft, according to police reports to the state Department of Public Safety. The town’s year-over-year crime rate increase was the second highest in the East Valley – surpassed only by Gilbert’s 9.05 increase – and comprised 1,329 crimes ranging from aggravated assaults to shoplifting.
Early returns favorable as massive I-10 rebuild ends

3 weeks ago | queencreektribune.com | Lee Shappell

You sat in more stop-than-go traffic on Interstate-10 on the way home from work while you resisted the urge – or not – to hurl epithets. That’s the way it was. The way it is now, as Arizona Department of Transportation mops up its nearly four-year rebuild of the Valley’s busiest freeway, 11 miles from I-17 through the Broadway Curve to the Loop 202 interchange in Ahwatukee: Better. It’s fresh, so it’s going to take time to assess how much better. ADOT has finished the heavy lifting.
Court raps state agency for actively fighting jobless claim

3 weeks ago | queencreektribune.com | Howard Fischer

The state Court of Appeals has slapped down the Department of Economic Security for taking an active role in arguing that a woman isn’t entitled to jobless benefits. And the judges said the decision to intercede was so egregious that they not only overturned the decision by the DES tribunal board saying she was ineligible but ordered it to pay the legal fees of the woman whose benefits the agency denied.
A church in EV coffee shop has a big mission

3 weeks ago | queencreektribune.com | Srianthi Perera

Mission Coffee & Tea, which opened in southeast Chandler in February, was founded with the proceeds from selling the building that housed Spirit of Joy Lutheran Church in Gilbert after its small group of congregants found that their church was not sustainable. However, rather than put a coffee shop in a church, they put a church in a coffee shop, said Chip Stoecker, managing partner of a five-member board of directors.
GOP primary brawl emerges for state schools chief

4 weeks ago | queencreektribune.com | Howard Fischer

Unable to seek reelection, state Treasurer Kimberly Yee now wants to become the top education official in Arizona. Yee said last week she believes she could do a better job as superintendent of public instruction than fellow Republican Tom Horne. A state lawmaker before being elected treasurer in 2018 – she can serve only two four-year terms – Yee said students in Arizona are falling behind academically.
Queen Creek led East Valley in population growth in 2024

1 month ago | queencreektribune.com | Howard Fischer

Queen Creek led the East Valley in population growth between 2023 and last year – and Pinal County wasn’t far behind, according to the latest report by the U.S. Census Bureau. Queen Creek grew the fastest as 8.1%. After that were the Pinal County communities of Casa Grande at 7.7%, Maricopa at 7.4%, Apache Junction at 7.2% and even Coolidge at 7.1%.
Judge overturns indictment against Queen Creek senator, others

1 month ago | queencreektribune.com | Howard Fischer

Attorney General Kris Mayes will have to once again persuade grand jurors to indict 11 “fake electors” – including Queen Creek Sen. Jake Hoffman – and others she contends were part of a scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential race. And if she cannot, the charges against the defendants will be dropped. In a new ruling, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam Myers last week said the grand jurors who handed up the first indictment last year were not given access to the Electoral Count Act of 1887.
CUSD to consider 4 bond election options

1 month ago | queencreektribune.com | Ken Sain

Voters rejected Chandler Unified School District’s request for $487.5 million in bond authorization last year, but its need for that money did not go away. Its aging infrastructure keeps aging, and officials say they need to find some way to get the money to pay for renovations and equipment to remain among the best school districts in Arizona.