How to Find News for a Specific City or Neighborhood on yourvalley.net

yourvalley.net is the shared home of a network of local Arizona newspapers, and the fastest way to get news for one community is to use the newspaper selector in the site navigation rather than scrolling the homepage. The site lists individual editions including Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Scottsdale, Peoria, Surprise, Queen Creek, Fountain Hills, Cave Creek/Carefree, Paradise Valley, Litchfield Park/Goodyear, Sun City, Sun City West, Apache Junction/Gold Canyon, Phoenix, and others. Pick your edition, then narrow further with the main menu topics or the site search.

Switch to your community's edition

The homepage you land on is only one edition in the network. The page evidence shows the same list of newspapers appearing twice in the navigation — once near the top and again in a "Select a newspaper" menu — which is the control you use to change coverage.

1. Open yourvalley.net.
2. Find the newspaper list in the navigation (it appears at the top of the page and again under a "Select a newspaper" label).
3. Choose your community — for example, Tempe Independent, Mesa Independent, Chandler Independent, Gilbert Independent, Glendale Independent, or Scottsdale Independent.
4. The page reloads as that edition, so headlines, local business stories, and school coverage reflect that city.

Expected result: you see that community's name in the masthead and its stories in the main feed, instead of the mixed network homepage.

Editions available in the selector

If your neighborhood isn't its own edition, choose the nearest city edition — for example, coverage of a Mesa shooting appears under the Mesa edition.

Narrow by topic once you're in the right edition

Choosing an edition sets the location; the main menu sets the subject. The navigation lists these sections:

• News — general local reporting
• Business — local business openings, closings, and licensing stories
• Sports — including school and local teams
• Valley and State — broader Arizona coverage
• Nation and World — non-local news
• Opinions, Obituaries, Entertainment, Calendar, Things To Do, Puzzles, and Sponsored Content

For a specific local story, combining an edition with a section is usually enough. For example, a Tempe tavern closing after a liquor-license battle sits under the Tempe edition's local business coverage.

Use search and the e-newspaper for older or exact items

Two other entry points help when browsing isn't precise enough:

• Advanced search — use it when you know a name, place, or phrase and want matching articles across the site.
• E-Newspapers — the digital replica editions, useful for reading a paper as it was printed or finding items that may not appear as web articles.

Both are listed in the site navigation alongside Free Newsletters, Special Sections, and Submissions.

Common snags

• You're still seeing other cities' stories. You likely haven't switched editions — check the masthead name, then reselect your newspaper.
• A story about your area appears under a different edition. Smaller communities are grouped into the nearest city edition, so check the neighboring edition too.
• You can't find an older article. Try Advanced search first, then the e-newspaper archive.
• You want updates without checking back. The site offers free newsletters you can sign up for.

What it costs

The site shows Subscribe and "Start a digital subscription" links, so some content or features may require a paid subscription. The available information doesn't specify which articles are free versus subscriber-only, so treat subscription status as something to check on the page rather than assume.