Fireside Elementary School News Today

Several schools in Arizona are being honored at the national level for going above and beyond.

Residents in one North Phoenix neighborhood are up in arms amid plans to rezone a vacant plot of land near their homes for commercial use. Such a rezoning, if approved, could transform the plot of land into a busy shopping area in the future.

When Sunrise Drive Elementary School principal Andrea Davidson received notice that the facility was nominated by the state for a National Blue Ribbon Schools award, she ignored it.

A recent study ranked Colorado schools against each other and found the top five best schools from public to private, pre-k to high school.

The schools - two of which were in the Valley, with the other two in Tucson - earned recognition based on overall academic performance.

Sunrise Drive and Senita Valley elementary schools were named Blue Ribbon schools Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Education.

Boulder County 2013 floodfacts Deaths: 4 lives lost (Gerald Boland, Joey Howlett, Wiyanna Nelson and Wesley Quinlan) People unaccounted for: 0 (originally in the hundreds, people accounted for within a week) Homes destroyed: 314 (95 manufactured homes included) Homes damaged: 1,535 (246 manufactured homes included) Commercial properties damaged: 33 Commercial properties destroyed: 3 Total properties […]

Boulder Valley Schools is testing one elementary school for soot, ash and from the Marshall Fire.

Molly Kobus remembers the first day back to school after the Marshall Fire like it was yesterday; an elementary school so filled with grief you could practically feel it.

West Metro Fire was one of dozens of agencies that sent help to Boulder County to save homes during the Marshall Fire.