Salaries, pensions, and health insurance make up the greatest three expenditures for the police, fire and municipal court departments.

Hal Rubenstein, a former fashion director at InStyle magazine, spoke at the Phoenix Art Museum. Rubenstein debuted his book "The Look of Love" in October.

While in some areas the humor lulled, director Shaun Michael McNamara found a generous amount of comedy content to play with in "The Notebook."

The owner of Tim Finnegan's, which Buzzfeed called the best Irish pub in Arizona, is holding the grand opening for his new pub The Kettle Black.

National security writer Thomas Ricks said he thinks the United States will lose its next war at the 10th-annual Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture on Monday.