The Latest Breaking News from Phoenix

PHOENIX — You don't walk away from a dream job without explaining why. If you're Theo Epstein, and the dream job involves leading the Boston Red Sox to their first World Series championship in way too many decades, you write a column in the Boston Globe explaining why.

PHOENIX — The Dodgers have agreed to a three-year contract extension with manager Dave Roberts, according to a person with knowledge of the situation, locking up the World Series-winning skipper through the 2025 season and ensuring he won’t manage the 2022 campaign in the last year of his deal.

In the first full year of the pandemic, the New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago metro areas had the greatest population losses in the U.S. U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday says Sunbelt metros like Dallas, Phoenix and Houston had the biggest gains

MINNEAPOLIS — For better or worse, the Timberwolves would wear their emotions on their sleeves, if their jerseys had any.

Police now say five people including a young child were injured Wednesday when an altercation at an outlet mall in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale erupted in gunfire

PHOENIX — Tuesday wasn't the first time Dave Roberts wrote Freddie Freeman's name into a lineup card.

PHOENIX — Usually, late March is when major league teams begin trimming down their spring training rosters.

By Friday, temperatures are anticipated to be in the 90s from Palm Springs to Phoenix. 

PHOENIX — All winter long, Freddie Freeman’s family could sense the turmoil within him. The All-Star first baseman had just reached the pinnacle of his career, winning a World Series with an Atlanta Braves franchise that had drafted him, developed him and nurtured his rise as one of baseball’s biggest…