The Tempe Tribune

The Tempe Tribune is a free weekly newspaper that serves the Tempe, Arizona community. It is distributed widely across the area, providing residents with a range of local news, community concerns, exciting events, and features that highlight life in Tempe. Our coverage includes civic news, local businesses, neighborhood stories, entertainment, sports, and updates from the local government and school districts. We also offer a platform for community voices through editorials and letters to the editor. Furthermore, the Tempe Tribune serves as a marketplace for local businesses to promote their products and services, both in print and online. Founded in 1887 by Curt Miller as the Tempe Daily News, the paper has a long history, having been published continuously for 122 years until it ceased operations in 2009. Over the years, it changed ownership several times, with the East Valley Tribune being the last before it was acquired by Times Media Group in 2016. The Tempe Tribune is published every Sunday, with a controlled circulation that ensures it reaches homes and is available in popular locations throughout Tempe, Arizona.

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Lengthy Tempe bridle-path flap ends in settlement

6 days ago | tempenews.com | Lee Shappell

After five years of legal wrangling, the parties in the Shady Lane Estates bridle-path flap have collectively said, “Whoa, Nellie,” and galloped into a settlement. The bottom line: A block wall that extends 10 feet into the south Tempe path stays. The wall was built on the rear of a Shady Lane property, northwest of the Warner Road-McClintock Drive intersection, in 2020 to enlarge the backyard.
20-story apartment project moves to Tempe City Council

1 week ago | tempenews.com | Lee Shappell

The Tempe Development Review Commission on a 6-0 vote May 13 recommended to City Council that it approve the development plan review – including site plan, building elevations and landscape plan – for a twin 20-story complex on 3.6 acres on the southeastern corner of Rural Road and University Drive. Council in December, in an unusual two-step process, had approved a rezoning request for The Leo despite not having the project’s development plan review nor a traffic impact study.
Early returns favorable as massive I-10 rebuild ends

1 week ago | tempenews.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.
New rules ice out many Tempe cooling venues

1 week ago | tempenews.com | Lee Shappell

Tempe will go into the summer with only one official cooling center, down from five a year ago, due largely to a change in qualifications. Faith-based volunteers at centers from a year ago that are now out of the plan this summer are irked. Tim Burch, Tempe’s community health and human services director, said it was not a deliberate cutback.
Tempe Legion remembers 2 special vets

2 weeks ago | tempenews.com | Lee Shappell

They were two stellar pillars of the community who served their country well. James Albert “Al” Kitts and Max Connolly were decorated combat veterans of the U.S. Army during World War II. Neither was killed in combat and both returned to Tempe to become notable post-war figures in the community. They’re both now gone, and they will be among those remembered at Tempe American Legion Post 2 while the nation pauses to reflect on Memorial Day.
Tempe-area artist, Women’s League provide comfort through art

2 weeks ago | tempenews.com | Paul Maryniak

From poverty to domestic violence to illnesses like cancer, catastrophes in life often exact a huge emotional toll. Two long-time friends, powered by the East Valley Women’s League, are doing something to ease the anxiety that comes with such hardships by bringing art therapy to their troubled lives.
Kyrene panel begins its tougher task

2 weeks ago | tempenews.com | Paul Maryniak

After accomplishing the comparatively easy half of its two-pronged mission two months ago, the Kyrene School District Long-Range Planning Committee last month began the much more difficult task. That mission – which will continue with its next monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 21, and for at least two more after that – will look at the future of the district’s 25 schools amid declining enrollment.
29-story building could replace historic Tempe church

3 weeks ago | tempenews.com | Lee Shappell

The way appears to be clear for Tempe to approve a downtown 29-story mixed-use project on the site of the historic First Congregational Church and the Walker House, which was the longtime home of a restaurant favorite of diners, House of Tricks. 7th Street Residential, proposed on 1.53 acres at 108 E. 7th St. – east of Myrtle Avenue between 7th and 6th streets – would be a market-rate residential community of 818 units and 3,000 square feet of ground-level commercial space.
Tempe developer, neighbors to work on privacy concerns

3 weeks ago | tempenews.com | Lee Shappell

Homeowners in a million-dollar neighborhood adjacent to a proposed two-story townhouse project that has only a 10-foot setback from their backyards were partially appeased on May 1 during their appeal before Tempe City Council. Seven Westchester Estates homes on East Libra Drive and South Rita Lane back the northern edge of the proposed Tempe 20 Townhomes. Real estate marketplace website Zillow lists the value of those homes, built in the late 1980s, at $950,000 to just above $1 million.
Red-light flashers will catch Tempe speeders

3 weeks ago | tempenews.com | Lee Shappell

You see it every day. You’re sitting at a red light and as the signal changes, cross traffic whizzes through the intersection after their light turns red. It’s a game of chance. When is it really safe to proceed through the intersection even though your light turned green, hoping not to be T-boned by a red-light runner, who might be speeding to try to make it through?