Call it a cliché, but Surprise’s rapid growth in recent years has been a bit of a surprise when considering its humble startup from a single acre of farmland almost a century ago. The sprawling ...

Rapidly growing Surprise is now under new leadership, with a new mayor and two new council members. Surprise held a swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday night at City Hall, where Mayor Kevin Sartor and ...

Surprise resident Rebekah Massie was arrested during a recent Surprise City Council meeting’s call to the public. Surprise Mayor Skip Hall alleged Massie violated a new policy that forbids members of ...

A state judge in Arizona this week tossed a criminal case against a woman who was arrested at a city council meeting for criticizing the pay raise and professional competence of a city attorney.

The specter of a possible “October surprise” looms over Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as they hurtle toward the conclusion of their race for the White House. William Safire, the Richard Nixon ...

With the 2024 presidential election just weeks away, pundits are once again awaiting the possibility of an October surprise. Described by Merriam-Webster as a "revelation disclosed in the month prior ...

The news alert came through around 4 p.m. on the first Friday of October 2016—one month before the presidential election. The Washington Post was in possession of an unaired video showing Donald Trump ...

SURPRISE, AZ (AZFamily) — Two men are dead after a shooting ended in an apparent murder-suicide outside a West Valley gas station early Monday morning. According to Surprise police, around 5 a.m., ...

At an Aug. 20 city council meeting, Surprise Mayor Skip Hall ordered a police officer to arrest and remove a woman who’d criticized a proposed pay raise for the city attorney. On Tuesday, that woman ...

SURPRISE, AZ (AZFamily) —A heated exchange during a Surprise City Council meeting ended with a West Valley mom in handcuffs. Mayor Skip Hall said she violated a city rule that bans complaints about ...

SURPRISE, Ariz. — A 33-year-old man died after being shot multiple times on 163rd Avenue near Grand Avenue in Surprise on Saturday afternoon, according to the Surprise Police Department. An ...

This presidential cycle has challenged the rules and precedents of our political system so often that it’s no surprise it’s posing a challenge for the “October surprise.” As the month of October goes ...